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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 



THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF 
LEADING CITIZENS OF THE 

PROVINCE OF NEW 
BRUNSWICK 

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF I. ALLEN JACK, Q.C., D.C.L. 



" Biography is the most universally pleasant, universally profitable, of all reading." — Carlyle. 



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1900 



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All the biographical sketches published in this volume were submitted to their respective subjects or to the sub- 
scribers, from whom the facts were primarily obtained, for their approval or correction before going to press, and a 
reasonable time was allowed in each case for the return of the typewritten copies or proofs. Most of them were returned to 
us within the time allotted, or before the work was printed, after being corrected or revised; and these may therefore be 
regarded as reasonably accurate. 

A few, however, were not returned to us; and, as we have no means of knowing whether they contain errors or 

not, we cannot vouch for their accuracy. In justice to our readers, and to render this work more valuable for reference 

purposes, we have indicated all uncorrected sketches by a small asterisk (*), placed immediately after the name of the 

subject. 

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PREFACE. 



VHEN the nineteenth century shall have completed its course at the close of the 
current year, its records will exhibit evidence of vitality, activity, and varied 
and momentous achievements unequalled and even unapproached in any pre- 
ceding period of like duration. To fully appreciate the history of any period, a knowl- 
edge of its actors is as important as a comprehension of its results, especially with 
reference to the hundred years so soon to be completed, as during their passage the 
influence of the individual has been generally and phenomenally extended. It is not 
every man who is born to be a hero or a leader; but each human unit, under reason- 
ably favorable circumstances, contributes something to the welfare and the history of 
society. To know the world or any part of it well in this advanced stage of human 
progress, one must have a large acquaintance with individuals, being thus led to recog- 
nize representative characters, to discern types. Few will deny that biography is the 
most interesting form of history, and that contemporary biography has an attractive- 
ness and value peculiarly its own. 

Our experience in publishing volumes of local biography, largely devoted to New 
England — witness our Atlantic Series, thirty-three volumes — has convinced us that 
such books meet a want of the times, and has encouraged us to undertake a similar 
enterprise in behalf of our neighbors and kinsfolk. Her Majesty's loyal subjects across 
the border. Of these some are " Mayflower " descendants, and many are numbered 
among the posterity of the Loyalists of 1783, who, when the independence of the thir- 
teen colonies had been secured, attested their allegiance to the crown by seeking a 
new home in Acadia. 

The present issue of the Review, the first in our Canadian Series, may be briefly 
set forth as an answer in part to the question of " Who's who .'' " in New Brunswick 
to-day. It is a book of facts, facts in the lives of persons of prominence and influence 
in the Province. It is safe to say that people have found life worth living in pro- 
portion as they have made themselves useful in their day and generation. These 



PREFACE 



pages tell of earnest workers in various fields of activity, of some who, as farmers, 
mechanics, manufacturers, merchants, tradesmen, have taken a conspicuous part in 
developing the material resources of the country, of others who have devoted their 
energies to the practice of law or medicine, the concerns of government, the dissemina- 
tion of learning, or the advancement of religion. 

A distinguishing feature of the book, as of its predecessors, published by us for 
other localities, is the attention given to genealogy, formerly the fad of the few, now 
a recognized branch of the humanities and a firm substratum for biography. 

We gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to numerous friends who by cordial 
co-operation have aided in our work, and especially to Mr. I. Allen Jack, O.C., to whose 
knowledge of local history and biography, wide circle of acquaintances, and sagacious 
supervision its success in large measure is to be attributed. 

BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY. 
Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 
June, I goo. 



EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



IT is needless to add largely to what is so comprehensively expressed by the pub- 
lishers in their preface, but a few supplementary words may not be regarded as 

superfluous. 

In ancient times certain tribes and nations not only reverenced but actually wor- 
shipped their departed ancestry, and even to-day it is possible to indicate races pe- 
culiarly addicted to adherence to primitive usages, engaged in the practice of this 
singular cult. 

Without lending support to this venerable species of adoration, is it entirely proper 
to advocate reverence for the persons or the memories of those through whom we 
exist. Well-regulated family pride is indeed a concomitant, if not an element, of 
patriotism, and an essential quality for the maintenance and advancement of society. 
But, in order to render it truly efificacious, creed and practice must go hand in hand: 
the jewel transmitted to unworthy keeping soon loses lustre, the buried skeleton 
cannot maintain the standard without the aid of the living descendant. And, further, 
such a pride should be felt, but not expressed, at least in words : the boaster is usually, 
and generally with propriety, classed as a snob when glorying in his own achievement, 
nor can he claim exemption from the term when he relies upon what has been achieved 
by another. 

The foregoing remarks apply especially to those who have gained honor, at least in 
part, by inheritance ; but they are not inapplicable to an important class of persons, the 
self-made. Whether at the beginning or in the middle of a series of human entities, 
an individual, if not in duty bound, is, at least, acting rightly and wisely, and not self- 
ishly, in seeking to perpetuate the memory of what has been meritoriously accom- 
plished or acquired by himself and by those from whom he sprung. 

The history of New Brunswick since its inception under that name is nearly con- 
temporaneous with that of the nineteenth century. It was, at least, only seventeen 
years before the close of the preceding century that those from the old colonies who 



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adhered to the British crown reached her shores. It is only natural that the landing of 
the Loyalists is generally regarded as the most important epoch recorded in the Provin- 
cial annals, and that such of the inhabitants as are able to trace descent from Loyalist 
stock find in the fact a source of special satisfaction. But many of those who make 
no claim to such descent are entitled to other inherited honors of unquestionable char- 
acter and ancient origin. Among the French-speaking Acadians are some whose 
remote ancestors occupied the highest places, and were connected with events some- 
times of even more than national importance. A perusal of the following pages will 
demonstrate that the same may be alleged of many of English, Irish, Scottish, or 
Colonial birth or parentage, where family tradition has been preserved with reverence 
and care. But to an ardent American, whether monarchist or republican, the gather- 
ing together in this locality at the close of the Revolutionary War of many of the most 
exalted personages from the older Provinces is profoundly interesting. New England, 
the midland and the southern districts, all contributed their quotas to this goodly 
company, and with them a store of memories of old "new world" incidents and ex- 
periences, songs and tales, to form a portion of the folk-lore of New Brunswick. While 
its people rejoice in their British connection, they are proud of their continental heri- 
tage, and boldly claim a place among those who best represent the bravest, wisest, and 
goodliest persons who, in the days gone by, came to stay in this happy quarter of 
the globe. 

The reader will find in this volume a great deal of most interesting information in 
regard to many distinctly representative persons and families of the Province ; and it 
may be truly alleged that in substance, perhaps especially in completeness of statement 
and in form, the book is admirably fitted to largely supply a heretofore well-nigh neg- 
lected want. Owing to tlie failure of a number of persons to avail themselves of the 
opportunity afforded by tliis publication, many important genealogical data well worth 
recording do not appear; but this, though regrettable, has no effect upon the value of 

what has been accomplished by the promoters. 

I. ALLEN JACK. 




I. ALLEN JACK, Q.C., D.C.L. 



BIOSRAPHIGAL. 




/SAAC ALLEN JACK, O.C, 
D. C.L. , barrister-at-law and for- 
merly Recorder of the city of 
St. John, was born in St. John, 
June 26, 1843, a son of William 
Jack, O.C. His paternal grand- 
father was David William Jack, 
who came to New Brunswick 
from Cooper Fife, Scotland. David W. Jack 
married Rebecca, a daughter of Thomas Wyer, 
one of the Loyalists of 1783, who had served 
the crown as Lieutenant Colonel during the 
Revolutionary War, and who came to St. An- 
drews, N. B. , from what was then Falmouth, 
Mass., but is now Portland, Me. 

William Jack, Q. C, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in St. Andrews, Char- 
lotte County, in iSii. He was educated in 
his native town, and on arriving at maturity 
made choice of the law as his profession. 
After being admitted to the bar he removed to 
St. George, where he remained until about 
1840, when he removed to St. John, and soon 
secured a large and remunerative practice. 
He was for some years Master in Chancery, 
and was also Advocate-general. Aside from 
a good understanding of his profession, espe- 
cially in equity, he had a wide general knowl- 



edge in literature and natural science. A 
lover of nature and devoted to his family, his 
favorite recreation was the beautifying of his 
home, Carigleagh, and many of his happiest 
hours were spent in the garden. He was one 
of the charter members and vice-president of 
the Mechanics' Institute of St. John and pres- 
ident of the Natural History Society of New 
Brunswick, and he was also chairman of the 
town of Portland, warden of the municipality 
of St. John, and president of the St. John Law 
Society. He married Emma Carleton, daughter 
of Captain Joseph Kenah, of the One Hundred 
and I'ourth Regiment. Her mother, whose 
maiden name was Mary Allen, was a daughter 
of Isaac Allen (for whom the subject of this 
sketch was named), a Loyalist from New Jer- 
sey, who served under the crown as Lieutenant 
Colonel, and who upon his arrival in New 
Brunswick in 1783 was appointed one of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court of the province. 
A grandson of his was Sir John C. Allen, the 
late Chief Justice. William and Emma Carle- 
ton Jack were the parents of eleven children, 
of whom the two eldest, twins, died young. 
The other nine still survive. 

Isaac Allen Jack, after receiving his ele- 
mentary education, became a pupil of the late 



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Canon Lee, under whom he studied for several 
years. He then entered the Collegiate School 
at Fredericton, and, after following the regular 
course there, matriculated at King's College, 
Fredericton, afterward removing to King's 
College, Windsor, N. S., where in 1863 he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 
1877 he received from the last mentioned col- 
lege the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law and 
in 1884 that of Doctor of Civil Law. Upon 
leaving college he began the study of law with 
his father, and was admitted attorney in Octo- 
ber, 1866, and barrister the following year. 
He was appointed Recorder of St. John in 
April, 1885, and was again appointed to that 
office in 1889, upon the union of the city of 
St. John with that of Portland. He was 
created O.C. March 18, 1891. On the death 
of Mayor Barker he filled the vacant office 
until the election of a new mayor, at the same 
time performing his duties as Recorder. 

Mr. Jack is a member of St. Andrew's So- 
ciety and of the Loyalists' Society of New 
Brunswick; a fellow of the Literary and His- 
torical Society of Oucbec ; fellow of the Hali- 
burton Society, Windsor, N. S. ; a member of 
the Associated Ahiiuni of King's College, 
Windsor, N. S. ; a member of the faculty of the 
Law School of St. John, conducted in connec 
tion with King's College, Windsor; and a 
member of the New Brunswick Historical 
Society. He was for many years a member of 
the Board of Directors and for two years presi- 
dent of the Mechanics' Institute of St. John. 
He is a member of the Church of England, and 
in politics is a Liberal. He takes great inter- 



est in literary work, and has contributed to 
various magazines and journals and learned so- 
cieties. Owing to ill-health he resigned his 
office of Recorder at the close of 1894, and 
retired from active life in the ensuing June. 



"OLLINGWORTH TULLY KING- 
^ DON, D.D., D.C.L., Church of 
England Bishop of New Brunswick, 
was born in London, England, April 16, 1835. 
The family of which he is a worthy representa- 
tive has been traced back to the year 1450; 
and an account of its origin, together with its 
coat of arms, may be found in books of 
heraldry. 

Bishop Kingdon began his education in St. 
Paul's School, London, where he was captain 
of the school. In 1858 he graduated at Trin- 
ity College, Cambridge. He was granted a 
place in the honor list in mathematics; but, 
as he fell sick and could not finish the exami- 
nation, he was not classed. He was then for 
a year at Cuddesdon College, under Canon 
H. P. Liddon, where he was elected scholar. 
He was ordained Deacon by Bishop \Vilber- 
force, of O.xford, and priest by Bishop Hamil- 
ton, of Salisbury. P'or about tliree years and 
a half he was curate of Sturminster Marshall, 
and he subsec[uently officiated in a like capac- 
it\' for two years at Devizes. Then for a 
period of five years he was vice-principal of 
Salisbury Theological College, after which for 
nine \'cars lie was curate of St. Andrew's 
Church, Wells Street, London. Subsequently 
for some time he was vicar of Good Easter (a 



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corruption of "God's Easter"), near Chelms- 
ford. While there he was elected Coadjutor 
Bishop of Fredericton, and was consecrated 
July lo, iSSi. In the same year he received 
his degree of Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge, 
England, in 1892 that of Doctor of Divinity 
from King's College, Windsor, N. S., and 
later that of Doctor of Civil Law from Trinity 
College, Toronto, Canada. 

A man of earnest purpose and scholarly at- 
tainments, Bishop Kingdon has not only faith- 
fully and efficiently performed the high duties 
of his sacred office, but has also contributed 
effectively by his pen and otherwise to advance 
the cause of religion and pure morality. In 
1873 he wrote a book entitled "Fasting Com- 
munion " (published by Longmans, Green & 
Co.). This work, so full of erudite references 
as to be practically unanswerable by church- 
men of different views, attracted so much at- 
tention in ecclesiastical circles as to cause the 
publication of a second edition in 1875. He 
is also the author of a pamphlet on "Divorce," 
the main tenets of which have since been 
crystallized into part of the report of the Lower 
House of Convocation of York, England. 
This pamphlet was written while he was serv- 
ing on the Church Committee on Divorce, 
having been appointed by the bishops of the 
Ecclesiastical I^rovince of Canada. In 1890 
Bishop Kingdon was appointed to deliver the 
"Bishop Paddock lectures" at the General 
Theological Seminary at New York, being the 
first alien to act in this capacity. In 1S88 
and 1897 he attended the Conference of Bish- 
ops at Lambeth, England. He is a deep stu- 



dent and lover of book.s, and the posses.sor of a 
large and valuable library, containing some 
works so rare as to be almost priceless. 
Among them is a Latin manuscript dated 
1268. He has not yet found time to cata- 
logue the books, and does not himself know 
how many there are. 

In 1890 Bishop Kingdon was married, in 
the cathedral, Fredericton, N.B. , to Anna 
Beverley, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel 
Beverley Adino Robinson and widow of 
George William Marsh. One child, a daugh- 
ter, Anna Phillipps Renorden, has been born 
of this union. Mrs. Kingdon's first husband, 
by whom she has two daughters, was a de- 
scendant of Archbishop Marsh, of Dublin, 
through his son, who married a daughter of 
Bishop Jeremy Taylor. 

Mrs. Kingdon is of the fifth generation in 
descent from Colonel Beverly Robinson, who 
commanded a regiment of Loyalists in the 
American Revolution. As is well known, 
Beverly Robinson was an early friend and 
schoolmate of Washington. He married Su- 
sannc Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse, 
second lord of the manor of Philipseborough, 
N. Y. ; and it was at his home in New York 
that Washington in 1756 met and admired 
Mrs. Robinson's sister, the beautiful Mary 
Philipse, co-heiress with her of a large estate. 
"That he sought her hand, and was refused, is 
traditional," says Irving. 

From Colonel Beverly Robin,son the line of 
descent is through his son, Beverly, who mar- 
ried Anna D. Barclay, and their son, Frederick 
Philipse, who married Jane Paddock, to Bev- 



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erley Adino, above named (Mrs. Kingdon's 
father), who married his cousin, Anna M., 
daughter of John V. and Anna (Paddock) 
Thurgar. Mrs. Kingdon's grandmothers were 
sisters, daughters of Adino Paddock, M.D., of 
New Brunswick, and grand-daughters of Cap- 
tain Adino Paddock, or Major Paddock, a sub- 
stantial and useful citizen of Boston, Mass., 
in pre-Revolutionary times sometimes spoken 
of, from his business and the place where he 
had his business training, as "the London 
coach-maker," now remembered as a public 
benefactor. The "Paddock elms" and "Pad- 
dock's Mall," in front of the Granary Burying- 
ground, which they shaded for upwards of one 
hundred years, took their name from him, he 
having been chiefly instrumental in planting 
them about the year 1762. Captain Paddock 
died on the Isle of Jersey in 1804. 

Bishop Kingdon's residence, Bottreaux 
House, is thus named after a castle, or resi- 
dence, built at Boscastle, Cornwall, by Sir 
Jonathan Phillipps, an uncle of his grand- 
mother, and known as "Bottreau.x Castle." 
Connected with the name is a well-known 
legend of the Cornish coast. It seems that 
some centuries ago a ship with a cargo of bells 
from Spain was trying to make port at Bos- 
castle. "Ah," said the pilot, "thank God! 
We are now almost safe!" "No," said the 
captain, "thank not God, but the good ship 
and the captain.'' They were not safe, how- 
ever? and the vessel foundered, on account, it 
is said, of the captain's blasphemy. The 
acoustic properties of the caves that line the 
coast arc such that at times they give forth 



sounds like those of the ringing of a peal of 
bells. If a peasant is asked what that sound 
is, he will reply, "Bottreaux bells." In the 
naming of his attractive and commodious resi- 
dence Bishop Kingdon is thus perpetuating 
an interesting bit of the folk-lore of his native 
land. 




,HILIP NASE, founder of the firm of 
P. Nase & Son, merchants, St. John, 
was born at Nerepis, parish of West- 
field, N.B., April 26, 1821, son of William 
H. and Charlotte (Harding) Nase. He was a 
descendant in the fifth generation of Henry 
Nase, who was born in Germany in 1695, and 
emigrated to America in 1728. Henry Nase 
settled in Dutchess County, New York, and 
resided there until his death, which occurred 
in 1759. 

Philip Nase, first, son of Henry and great- 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
born in Germany in 1724, and came to Amer- 
ica with his parents when four years old. 
The rest of his life was spent in New York, 
and he died October 10, 1805. His wife was 
born in Dutchess County, May 10, 1724, 
daughter of John Dutcher, a native of Hol- 
land. She died in New York, December 7, 
i8o[. 

Their son, Colonel Henry Nase, who was 
born June 28, 1752, served as an officer in the 
British army with General Coffin before he 
had attained his full rank during the Ameri- 
can Revolution, and settled in New Bruns- 
wick prior to the coming of that Loyalist. 



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Locating upon a tract of land at the mouth of 
the Nerepis River, in the parish of Westiield, 
he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and for 
some time was Judge of Probate for Kings 
County. As a prominent churchman he was 
lay reader whenever the parish was without a 
resident clergyman; and, there being no church 
edifice at that time, services were held in pri- 
vate houses or in a large barn near Alwington 
Manor, the residence of General Coffin. Sev- 
eral of his sons were baptized in that build- 
ing. Colonel Nase died in May, 1836. On 
March 13, 1788, he married Jane Ouinton, 
who was born January 27, 1767, and died May 
29, 1852. They reared four sons and six 
daughters, William H. being the second son 
and the fourth-born child. 

William H. Nase, the father of Philip, was 
born at the homestead in Nerepis, June 19, 
1793. He was engaged in general farming 
during the active period of his life, which 
terminated June 6, 1880. Charlotte Harding 
Nase, his wife, whom he married October 21, 
1 8 17, was born July 4, 1794. They were the 
parents of three sons and seven daughters ; 
and Philip, the subject of this sketch, was the 
second son and the third-born child. 

Philip Nase was reared upon the homestead 
farm, and resided there until 1847. Coming 
to St. John in that year, he established him- 
self in mercantile business at Indiantown, 
where he remained in trade until selling out 
in 1854. Repurchasing the store in 1861, he 
carried it on successfully until his death, 
which occurred February 2, 1885. He was 
highly esteemed by his business associates, 



whose confidence he had gained by his strict 
adherence to upright principles; and his many 
commendable qualities were heartily appreci- 
ated by all who knew him. 

Mr. Nase contracted the first of his two 
marriages, March 23, 1847, with Elizabeth 
Mary Hamm, daughter of David Hamm, of 
Westfield. She died October 13, 1872. On 
October 13, 1878, he married for his second 
wife Lydia Ann Van Wart. He was the 
father of eleven children, ten by his first wife 
and one by his second, namely: David H., 
born February 3, 1848; Mary M., born Sep- 
tember 7, 1849, who married Charles F. 
Woodman; Sarah C, born April 22, 1851, 
who died April 29, 1868; Leonard Tilley, 
born August 20, 1853; George B., born May 
16, 1857; Helen M., who married Robert B. 
Paterson; James P., born January 26, 1863, 
who is now residing at the old homestead in 
Westfield; Mathias Hamm, born December 
26, 1S64; William Henry, born November 
10, 1 866; Frank, born May 15, 1869; and 
Otto, born February 5, iS8r, the latter by the 
second union. 

Leonard Tilley Nase, who is a member of 
the firm of P. Nase & Son, successors to P. 
Nase, married Susie C. Case, and has one 
son, Philip, born October 12, 1886. George 
B. , who is residing in Milwaukee, Wis., mar- 
ried Emily B. Roggenbau. Mathias Hamm 
Nase, who is a building contractor in New 
York, married Adelaide Louise Ferrel. 
William Henry, who is also in the firm of 
P. Nase & Son, married Mary Massie Flem- 
ing. Frank, who is an accountant for the 



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Anaconda Mining Company of l^utte City, 
Mont., married Mina S. Hedge. 

The late Mr. Nase was a member of the 
Church of England and for some years a ves- 
tryman of St. Luke's Church, and took a deep 
interest in religious work. 




'ON. HENRY ROBERT EMMER- 
SON, O.C, of Dorchester, N.B., 
■ Premier of the Province of New 
Brunswick, has been prominently identified with 
public affairs for a number of years, and is 
well known in legal circles. A son of the late 
Rev. Robert H. Emmerson, he was born Sep- 
tember 2 5, 1S53, in Maugerville, N.B. His 
paternal grandfather, John Emmerson, was en- 
gaged in lumbering and farming in New 
Brunswick during his earlier life, but subse- 
cjuently removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where 
he continued his chosen occupation until his 
death, at a good old age. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Maria Tozer, attained the 
venerable age of ninety years. They had nine 
children, of whom five are now li\-ing. 

Robert II. iMnmerson was the third child of 
John and Maria Ennnerson. After obtaining" 
the rudiments of his education in the district 
school, he .studied first at the Baptist Semi- 
nary in Fredericton and later at Acadia Col- 
lege in Nova Scotia. On leaving the latter 
institution he prepared for the ministry, and 
then accepted a call to the Baptist church in 
Maugerville, Sunbuiy County, where he re- 
mained some time. He subsecjuently became 
the pastor of the Baptist church at Moncton, 



N. B., and was preaching there at the time of 
his death, which occurred when he was but 
thirty-one years old. He married Augusta, 
daughter of Joseph Read, of Minudie, N. S. ; 
and she is still living, her home being with 
her son, the Hon. Henry R. Emmerson, in 
Dorchester. Of their happy union three chil- 
dren were born, as follows: Henry R. ; F. W. ^ 
and Emma, wife of Harvey Atkinson, O.C, of 
Moncton, N.B. 

Henry R. Emmerson, O.C, pursued his early 
studies in various educational institutions of 
note, including St. Joseph's College, Memram- 
cook, N.B. ; Amherst Academy, Amherst, 
N. S. ; Mount Allison Academy, Sackville, 
N. B. ; the English High School, Boston, 
Mass. ; the Horton Collegiate Academy; and 
Acadia College, in Wolfville, N. S. Having 
decided upon a proiessional career, he then 
began the study of law, and in 1877 graduated 
from the Boston University Law School with 
the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately 
locating in Dorchester, N. B., he was admitted 
to the bar during the same year, and at once 
began the practice of his profession. He is 
now a Queen's Counsel for the Province. 
Since taking up his residence in Westmorland 
County, Mr. Emmerson has e.xerted a great 
infiuence in political circles, and has served 
with ability and fidelity in many offices of 
trust and responsibility, although at one or 
two elections of the general Dominion he 
pro\'ed an unsuccessful candidate for politi- 
cal honors. For several years he was a School 
Trustee and the secretary of the Board. In 
1S8S he was elected a member of the Provin- 




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cial Parliament, representing Albert County. 
In 1 89 1 he became a member of the Execu- 
tive Council. On the loth of October, 1892, 
he was sworn in as Chief Commissioner of 
Public Works; and in October, 1897, he as- 
sumed the duties connected with the Premier- 
ship of this province. He was at one time 
a member of the Legislative Council of the 
Province, in which he voted for its abolition ; 
and this came about in 1892. This honorable 
record of service in high official positions is 
speaking evidence of the great estimation in 
which Mr. Emmerson is held throughout his 
native province, and is a conspicuous tribute 
to his talents and integrity. 

Mr. Emmerson and family, daughter of the 
late C. B. Record, of Moncton, N. B., were 
married on June 12, 1878, and they have five 
children, namely: Ethel R. ; Henry R. , Jr.; 
Emily K. ; Bernice S. ; and Marion B. Both 
Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson are members of the 
Baptist church. Mr. Emmerson is president 
of the Baptist Convention for the Maritime 
Provinces; also a member of the Board of 
Governors of Acadia University. 



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EORGE ROBERT SANGSTER, a 
\j^J_ prominent and prosperous citizen of 
Moncton, N.B., is living somewhat retired 
from active pursuits, enjoying the fruit of his 
earlier years of industry. He was born No- 
vember 28, 1834, in Falmouth, N.S. , the 
town in which his father, the late John 
Sangster, Jr., first opened his eyes to the 
light of this beautiful world. He comes of 



Scotch ancestry on his father's side, his pa- 
ternal grandfather, John Sangster, Sr., having 
been born and brought up in Aberdeen, Scot- 
land. 

When a young man John Sangster, Sr., 
emigrated with two of his brothers to Amer- 
ica. One brother settled in Toronto, Canada, 
and one at Cape Breton, while John himself 
bought land in Falmouth, N.S., where he car- 
ried on general farming with excellent results, 
and also kept a house of public entertainment, 
the Sangster Inn, which was well patronized 
for many years. He was twice married; and 
his first wife, whose family name was Cleve- 
land, was the paternal grandmother of George 
R. Sangster. 

John Sangster, Jr., was born at the old 
homestead in Falmouth, N. S. , and there spent 
the greater portion of his sixty-five years of 
life, but died in Cornwallis, N.S. Follow- 
ing the occupation in which he was reared, he 
became one of the leading agriculturists of 
that part of the country, and was highly re- 
spected for his manliness of character and 
honest dealings. He married Mrs. Ann 
Northrup Church, who lived to the age of 
seventy-six years. Both were attendants of 
the Methodist church. They had six chil- 
dren, of whom George R. is the only one now 
living. 

George R. Sangster pursued his elementary 
studies in the schools of Canning, N. S., later 
completing his educaton at the academy in 
Lower Horton, a neighboring town. Then, 
little inclined to spend his life in tilling the 
soil, he went to Boston, Mass., where for sev- 



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eral years he was employed as the driver of a 
horse-car. Ambitious and venturesome, how- 
ever, he determined to find some other mode 
of making a living, and soon joined a party 
going by mule train to the Rocky Mountains 
in search of gold. After being there success- 
fully engaged in mining for some time, he re- 
turned to Nova Scotia, and for five years was 
engaged as caterer in the Kentville Station 
Dining-rooms. In 1876 he came to Moncton, 
and for ten years was caterer of the dining- 
room at the Moncton depot. Retiring from 
business in 1886, Mr. Sangster continued his 
residence in Moncton, and has since been 
busily employed in looking after his private 
interests, which are numerous and important. 
He is a shareholder in phosphate lands in 
Florida, and also in the Acadian Coal and 
Coke Company, of which he is one of the di- 
rectors. 

A Liberal in his political views, he is ac- 
tive in local affairs, and for two "years served 
as Town Councillor from Ward Three. In 
1 8 54 he was made a Mason in Mount Tabor 
Lodge of East Boston, Mass. He was de- 
mitted, and is now an honorary member of 
Keith Lodge, F. & A. M., of Moncton, and 
is Past Master of Kentville Lodge. He was 
made a Royal Arch Mason in St. John Royal 
Arch Chapter, East Boston. Me belongs to 
Ivanhoe Preceptory of Moncton, N. B. ; also to 
Prince Albert Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Monc- 
ton. Having never swerved fi-om the relig- 
ious faith in which lie was reared, Mr. Sang- 
ster is an influential member of the Methodist 
church, to which his family also belong, and 



he is very liberal in his gifts to that denomi- 
nation. He erected the Wesley Memorial 
Church of Moncton, and on its completion in 
1890 presented it to the Methodist Society. 

Mr. Sangster and Rebecca E.,' daughter of 
Elisha Loomer, of Canning, N.S., were mar- 
ried on September g, 1857. They have three 
children living, namely: John B. , born March 
17, 1859, who married on May 13, 1885, 
Alma E. McFarland, and has two children — 
John C, born July 2, 1886, and Emma R., 
born November 11, 1893; Lizzie S., who 
was born March 24, 1S61, and is now the wife 
of Harry I. Brown, of Moncton, and has one 
child, Jean S., born February 5, 1893; 
and George L. , born November 24, 1863. 




CALUS LOCKWOOD PALMER, 
late Equity Judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Brunswick, a jurist 
of more than Provincial reputation, was at the 
time of his death, which occurred August 10, 
1899, one of the oldest members of the New 
Brunswick bar. He was born at Sackville, 
N. B., in 1820, son of Philip Palmer. His 
grandfather, Gideon Palmer, who was the first 
of the family in this Province, was living in 
Westchester, N. Y., when the American Rev- 
olution broke out; but, remaining loyal to the 
English crown, he forfeited his estate and 
came with others to New Brunswick. Here 
he was appointed by Governor Carleton Coro- 
ner for the county of Westmorland. His son 
Philip represented that county for many years 
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Acalus Lockvvood Palmer received his early 
education at Sackville. He began the study 
of law in the office of the Hon. E. B. Chand- 
ler in February, 1842, one of his fellow- 
students being the late Albert J. Smith. In 
1S46 he was admitted to the bar of Nova 
Scotia and to that of New Brunswick. He 
soon rose to prominence in his profession, 
winning laurels both in the Provincial and 
in the higher courts, where his contentions 
were almost invariably sustained. In 1867 he 
was created a Queen's Counsel. He was a 
leading figure in the Province, and acted as 
counsel in many important criminal cases, in 
which, as well as in dealing with questions of 
commercial law, he proved a formidable antag- 
onist at the bar. For several years he was 
president of the Barristers' Society of New 
Brunswick. From the year 1850 to the time 
he took his seat on the bench, a period of 
nearly thirty years, he was probably the fore- 
most lawyer in the Province, and was em- 
ployed in nearly all cases of importance that 
came before the courts. A glance at the 
records of the Supreme Court for that time 
discloses the enormous amount of legal work 
he handled. His biography would cover the 
legal history of the Province during his time. 
He was not only engaged in most of the cases 
of importance during thirty years, but was a 
most prominent figure in the contests; for, 
while he was never considered a great orator, 
his knowledge of law and business lent power- 
ful influence to his arguments with both court 
and jury, and his success was marvellous. 

He also engaged actively for many years in 



the political contests of the time. He was a 
strong advocate of confederation, and was 
twice a candidate in Westmorland County in 
the confederate interests. Although unsuc- 
cessful then and again in 1870, when he ran 
in St. John as candidate for the Legislature, 
he was elected in 1872 as Representative of 
St. John in the Parliament of Canada, and 
successively held the seat until 1878. When 
first elected he had been a resident of St. John 
for only five years. He was a warm sup- 
porter of Sir John McDonald's government, 
and always took a prominent part in debate. 

On the creation, in 1879, of an additional 
judgeship for the Supreme Court of New 
Brunswick, Mr. Palmer was appointed to fill 
it, his standing at the bar attesting his emi- 
nent fitness for the place.. His acceptance of 
this appointment was a great pecuniary loss 
to him, his income as a barrister having been 
far in excess of the salary paid a judge. 
When he assumed the office of Judge, he dis- 
played a breadth of legal knowledge and an 
ability to deal with the most intricate points 
of law that won for him a place among the 
ablest of Canadian jurists. Such was his suc- 
cess as a judge that it may be truly said that 
out of the old, cumbersome, and dilatory Court 
of Chancery he has made a most useful, expe- 
ditious, and popular court in the Province, 
and one which has absorbed the greatest part 
of the legal business of the county. 

He was well known and highly respected by 
many of the leading jurists of the neighboring 
republic, and doubtless not less so because of 
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sions in that country, he upheld the honor of 
Canada and the Empire and the memory of the 
Loyalist founders of his native Province, from 
whom he himself was descended. Judge 
Palmer took a deep interest in medical juris- 
prudence, and was a prominent member of the 
Medico-Legal Society of New York, of which 
he was for some years the vice-president for 
New Hrunswick. He frequently attended the 
sessions of that body in New York, where he 
on several occasions presided and where he 
had many friends. Shortly before his death, 
despite his advanced age, Judge Palmer was 
in full possession of bodily vigor and the keen 
faculties of mind that made him so long a 
man of mark among his fellows. Palmer's 
Chambers in Princess Street, containing law 
offices, was erected by him in 1S7S. 

In 1850 he was married to Martha Ann, 
daughter of Andrew Weldon, Esq. By her he 
had thi'ee children, one son who died in in- 
fancy; a daughter, Fannie li. ; and Charles 
Arthur Palmer, of whom mention is made 
elsewhere in the Re\'iew. Mrs. Martha 
Palmer died in November, 1882; and on De- 
cember 14, 1886, Judge Palmer married 
Amelia Ray, youngest daughter of Gilbert 
]5ent, Esq., of St. John. 




jHARLES ARTHUR PALMER, 
LL.li, O.C, late of St. John, N.B., 
who died on January 7, 1899, was 
born June 6, 1855, ^^ Dorchester, Westmor- 
land County, N.li. He was a son of Acalus 
Lock wood I'alm.cr by Iiis first wife, whose 



maiden name was Martha Ann Weldon. His 
father was a Judge of the Supreme Court of 
New Brunswick. 

Mr. Palmer received his education at Mount 
Allison College, Sackville, N. B., and the law 
school at Harvard University. Admitted 
barrister, he subsequently practised his pro- 
fession until his death, gaining for himself a 
wide reputation and a large and important 
clientage. In politics he was a Conservative, 
and took an interest in the affairs of his party, 
but never aspired to I^arliamentary honors, 
being too much engrossed with his profes- 
sional duties. Mr. Palmer's success was the 
result of his real worth of character and dili- 
gent application. He gained a leading place 
in his profession early in life. In religion he 
was a Methodist. 

He was married October 20, 1881, to Ada 
Louisa Sancton, daughter of George P. Sanc- 
ton, lisq. He had two sons — Arthur L. and 
George S. 



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SIDNEY SMITH, born at St. John, 
V^J. N. B., May 4, 1S34, is the eldest soh 
of Henry Bowyer and Charlotte L. Smith. 
Henry Bowyer Smith in 1S24, at the early age 
of twenty-four years, was appointed by the Im- 
perial government Comptroller of the port of 
St. John, and shortly afterward succeeded to 
the collectorship, which position he continued 
to hold until the Imperial government was 
transferred to the colonial authorities in 
1848, when he was retired with a pension. 
He continued to reside in St. John up to the 
time of his death in 1868. His father was 




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Hox. WILLIAM H. TUCK. 



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Charles Douglass Smith, an officer of dragoons 
in the British army, a brother of Admiral Sir 
Sidney Smith, who fought and held in check 
Napoleon Bonaparte at Acre. 

G. Sidney Smitii was named after his 
father's elder brother, Captain George Sidney 
Smith, of the Royal Navy, who as a midship- 
man at the age of eleven years was captured 
by a French man-of-war in Ouiberon Bay, and 
spent the succeeding seven years of his life as 
a prisoner of war in a French prison, return- 
ing" after marvellous hairbreadth escapes to 
his father's house at Bath at the age of eigh- 
teen years. By a strange coincidence some 
time afterward, as a Lieutenant in the navy, 
he was in command of the boat which conveyed 
Napoleon from the beach to H. M. S. "Un- 
daunted" on the occasion of his exile to Elba, 
and he assisted the ex-emperor along the gang- 
plank into the boat. 

After a course of private tuition G. Sidney 
Smith entered the St. John Grammar School, 
under the late Dr. Paterson, and remained 
there some years. He then went to the Col- 
legiate School at Fredericton, where he 0I3- 
tained the Douglas silver medal as "Dux" of 
the school. He then entered King's College, 
Fredericton (now the University of New 
Brunswick), where he remained for the full 
course, winning a foundation scliolarship after 
a keen competition, taking his degree of 
Bachelor of Arts with honors, and winning 
the Douglas gold medal for an essay. 

He entered on the study of the law in the 
office of William Jack, O. C, Advocate Gen- 
eral in St. John, was admitted attorney in 



October, 1858, and was called to the bar in 
October, 1859. He has since practised law 
in the city of St. John, devoting himself 
largely to the management of trust estates and 
real estate generally, in which he has had a 
wide experience. In 1873 he was appointed 
solicitor and notary to the Bank of New Bruns- 
wick, and this office he still holds. 

G. Sidney Smith married in 1861 Elizabeth 
Sands Thorne, only child of Stephen R. 
Thorne, a barrister-at-law of Loyalist descent. 
He has one son, Bowyer Sidney Smith, 
barrister-at-law, residing in St. John, and 
four daughters. 




ON. WILLIAM HENRY TUCK, 
Chief Justice of New Brunswick, a 
resident of St. John, is a son of the 
late Moses Tuck, and was born in Portland, 
N. 13. , February 27, 1831. The maiden name 
of his mother was E^lizabeth Travis. His first 
paternal ancestor in America was Robert Tuck, 
who came over in 1636 from Gorleston, a sea- 
board town in the north-easterly part of Suffolk 
County, England. He lived for a time in 
Watertown, Mass., but two years later was a 
petitioner to the General Court at Boston for 
leave to settle at Hampton, Rockingham 
County, N. H., and removing to that place 
there made his home till his death, in 1664. 
Robert Tuck's son Edward, who was born in 
England before the family came across the 
ocean, married Mary Philbrick, and settled on 
a part of his father's estate, where he died on 
April 6, 1652. 



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John Tuck, son of Edward, was born in 
1652. He married on November 9, 1677, 
Bethia, daughter of Morris and Sarah (Eastow) 
Hobbs. She was born in Hampton on Decem- 
ber 28, 1658, and died on May 29, 1738. 
John Tuck died on January 4, 1742, at ninety 
years of age. The next in line, Edward Tuck, 
son of John, was born on February 7, 1694 or 
1695, and died on June 7, 1772. He was a 
carpenter by trade, and settled in Kensington, 
N. H. His wife, whose maiden name was 
Sarah Dearborn, was the daughter of Samuel 
and Mercy (Batchelder) Dearborn, of Hamp- 
ton. She was born on June 17, 1699, and 
died on January 15, 1756. Their son Samuel, 
great-grandfather of the Hon. William Henry 
Tuck, was born in Kensington on September 
13. 1738- He was married on September 30, 
1762, to Anna, daughter of John and Mary 
(Marston) Moulton, of Hampton, who was 
born June 24, 1744. After living for some 
time in Kensington, Samuel removed to Brent- 
wood, N. H. Later he was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War, and on November 12, 
1777, he died in the army. His widow, who 
survived him more than fifty-eight years, died 
on August 8, 1836, over ninety-two years of 
age. 

Judge Tuck's grandfather, .Samuel Tuck, 
son of the above-named Samuel, was born in 
l^rentwood on April 6, 1765, and was married 
on July 19, 179s, to Sally Watson, who was 
born on New Year's Day, 1773. He settled 
in Fayette, Kennebec County, Me., where he 
became Captain in the militia and Justice of 
the Peace. He was a member in 1821 of the 



first legislature of the State of Maine. His 
death occurred on July 8, 1840, and that of 
his wife on January 2, 1868, at the age of 
ninety-five years. 

Moses Tuck, father of the Judge, was born in 
Fayette, Me., on March 25, 1799, and was 
married to Elizabeth Travis on November 15, 
1828. He was a resident in St. John for about 
half a century, and died there on April 28, 
1868. 

Judge Tuck was educated in the local schools 
and at Mount Allison University, Sackville, 
N.B. In 1855 he was called to the bar, and 
subsequently for many years he practised the 
profession of law in St. John with marked 
success. He became Clerk of the Crown and 
Queen's Counsel in June, 1867, and succeeded 
the late Hon. R. L. Hazen, O. C, and Re- 
corder of St. John in 1874. In the latter year 
also he was president of the Barristers' Society, 
and received the honorar}' degree of Doctor of 
Civil Law from Mount Allison University. 
For many years he was an active politician on 
the Conservative side, and labored earnestly in 
behalf of a British-American union. In 1882 
he unsuccessfully contested the city and county 
of St. John for the Canadian House of Commons. 
His appointment as Judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Brunswick bears the date March 
17, 1885, and his appointment as a local judge 
in admiralty cases, October 13, 1891. In 
1S92 he was appointed lecturer in the St. John 
Law School, in 1895 professor of statutory law 
in King's College, Windsor, and on May 13, 
1896, was promoted to be Chief Justice of 
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speaks of Chief Justice Tuck as "a hard 
worker and prompt in the transaction of busi- 
ness," an encomium which, though wholly 
true, is conspicuously inadequate, especially in 
the omission to give the learned Judge due 
credit for his quickness of apprehension and 
clearness of expression and for his shrewd 
common-sense, combined with knowledge of 
law. He married in December, 1857, Sarah 
Plummer, daughter of Colonel H. S. Favor, of 
Eastport, Me. 



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EORGE EDWARD FENETY, who 
\mJ_ died in Fredericton, September 30, 
1899, was a former Mayor of the city. He 
was well known in literary and political 
circles, and was for many years Queen's 
Printer for the Province of New Brunswick. 
He was born in Halifax, N. S., the fourth 
son of William Fenety, an architect and 
draughtsman, who, previous to his death, in 
1826, was engaged on the King's Works. 
William Fenety married Mary Hall, daughter 
of Richard Hall, a sturdy Loyalist, who went 
to Nova Scotia in 1783, and settled in Shel- 
burne, a town built up largely by Loyalists 
from New York, New Jersey, and Massachu- 
setts. 

George E. Fenety began his active career 
when a youth of seventeen by entering the 
office of the Ahn'a Scotian, a Liberal paper, 
owned by the late Hon. Joseph Howe, who at 
the time of his death, in 1875, was Lieutenant 
Governor of Nova Scotia. While he was con- 
nected with that paper, Mr. Fenety travelled 



extensively throughout the Provinces collect- 
ing accounts. In 1835 he went to New York, 
and the following year became connected with 
a Southern paper, the Planter s Advocate, 
which was published at Donaldsonville, a 
small town on the Mississippi River, and of 
which he was afterward half-proprietor. In 
1839 yellow fever, the annual scourge of that 
climate, proved fatal in so many cases that he 
disposed of his interests in the paper and 
returned home. Settling in St. John, Mr. 
Fenety continued his journalistic work by 
starting the first penny paper issued in the 
Provinces, calling it the J/o77«V/_o-7\'r«'.s'. The 
weeklies in this section of the country then 
sold at ten cents each, and in the United 
States there were but four that sold so 
cheaply, the New York Herald, the New 
Orleans Picayune, the Philadelphia Ledger, 
and the Boston Herald. This penny paper 
was a great innovation; and greatly dis- 
couraged by other publishers, but in spite of 
all obstructions, Mr. Fenety, before he retired 
from its editorship in 1863, succeeded in 
making the Neivs the leading political paper 
of St. John. The name, however, was 
changed from the Morning ATcws to the Dailv 
Nezvs, and, though now out of existence, it 
was for a long time the oldest established 
paper in the Province. 

Mr. Fenety was for many years a trusted 
government ofificial. In 1856 he was made 
Justice of the Peace for the city and county of 
St. John, and the next year was appointed as 
a Commissioner to investigate the manage- 
ment of the Asylum for Lunatics, the Provin- 



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cial Penitentiary, the Marine Hospital, and 
tiie light-houses on the coast, he being one of 
five commissioners, of whom the Hon. David 
Wark, of whom a brief sketch may be found 
on another page of this volume, is the only 
other survivor. Great good resulted from the 
commissioners' investigations, which Mr. 
Fenety as a journalist was credited with in- 
citing, the current expenses for running the 
various institutions being thereby materially 
lessened. In 1S47 he was chosen as a di- 
rector of the Mechanics' Institute, and in 1863 
was appointed Queen's Printer, a position 
which he resigned in 1895. 

The literary work of Mr. Fenety is volumi- 
nous and of much interest and importance. 
In 1867 he issued "Political Notes and Ob- 
servations," a book which gives a complete 
account of the legislative struggles in New 
Brunswick from 1 840 to 1855; and he subse- 
quently published a second volume of the 
same work, which covers a period of five 
years. He has also written a novel describ- 
ing Halifa.x life, and is the author of "Early 
Recollections of Halifax," "Imperial Fede- 
ration. Its Impracticability," and various 
pamphlets. In i8g6 he wrote "The Life and 
Times of the Hon. Joseph Howe," and almost 
to the close of his days he kept his pen in use 
by contributing to different periodicals. 

In 1877 he was elected Mayor of Frederic- 
ton, and he was subsequently re-elected to the 
same office four times. It is notable that of 
the five occasions when he was candidate for 
the position he ran three times without oppo- 
sition. In 1887 he retired from politics. On 



leaving the Mayor's chair, he was presented 
by the citizens with a beautiful epergne, val- 
ued at two hundred and fifty dollars, and a 
testimonial signed by three hundred leading 
citizens. While at the head of the city 
government, he not only gave freely from his 
own private purse toward improving the city, 
but he generously gave his salary of two hun- 
dred dollars a year toward paying for the clock 
placed in the tower of the City Hall. Mr. 
Fenety at different periods was a director of 
the Joggins Coal Mines Association of St. 
John; president and secretary of the Auxiliary 
Bible Society; trustee of the local School 
Board; director of the local Fire Insurance 
Company; president of the Gas Company; 
president of the Forest Hill Cemetery Com- 
pany; president of the Historical Society, 
which has now passed out of existence; chair- 
man of the Board of Health; vice-president of 
the Church of England Temperance Society; 
director of the Leather Company; president 
of the Trotting Park Association and of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals; chairman of the Board of Directors 
of Wilmot Park, for which the endowment 
fund of twenty thousand dollars was placed in 
his hands in 1894 by jMr. Wilmot; delegate 
from Christ's Church Cathedral to the 
Diocesan Synod and to the Church Society. 
He was also a delegate from P'redericton to 
Ottawa to confer with the members of the 
Dominion government in the interests of the 
Canadian Eastern Railway just prior to its 
construction. Of these positions, more of 
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ing much time to properly discharge the 
duties connected therewith, he held four when 
summoned from earth. Among the distin- 
guished persons whom he introduced to Fred- 
ericton audiences while he was Mayor of the 
city were the Rev. Joseph Cook, the Rev. 
Henry Ward Beecher, the Rev. Dr. Talmage, 
Justin McCarthy, Sir John A. McDonald, and 
the Marquis of Lansdownc, from whom he re- 
ceived a letter written in recognition of his 
services as Mayor. 

In September, 1847, i" New York, Mr. 
Fenety married Eliza A., youngest daughter 
of Robert Arthur, a distant relative of the 
late Chester A. Arthur, President of the 
United States. Of the nine children born of 
this union six are now living. One son, 
Harris Fenety, is editor and publisher of the 
Daily Record at St. John, N.B. ; and one of 
his daughters is the wife of Charles G. D. 
Roberts, the Canadian poet. 




ILLIAM MUNSON JARVIS, bar- 
rister, a representative citizen of 
St. John, N. B., is a native of the city, and 
was born on October g, 1838, his parents 
being William and Mary Caroline (Boyd) 
Jarvis. 

The name Jarvis or Jervis, or, in its orig- 
inal form, Gervais or Gervaise, is of French 
origin, though, like many other names which 
have had their source abroad and have been 
common in England since the Norman Con- 
quest, it has now become thoroughly Angli- 
cised. It appears in its French form in the 



Parliamentary writs of the fourteenth century. 
Gradually, however, this form passed away 
and the English form was assumed, Jervis or 
Jarvis in the mother country, and Jarvis al- 
most imiversally in Canada and the United 
States. 

The name occurs frequently among those of 
the earlier settlers in New England. The 
Canadian members of the family in most 
cases, however, trace their descent from 
William Jarvis, who resided at Huntington, 
L.I., at the end of the seventeenth century. 
One of his sons. Captain Samuel Jarvis, born 
in 1698, removed to Norwalk in Connecticut. 
In 1738 his name, with those of two of his 
sons, appears among the signatures to a me- 
morial addressed to the General Assembly by 
those in the colony who then professed them- 
selves adherents of the Church of England. 
It was only sixteen years before that several 
members of Yale College had resigned their 
offices, crossed the Atlantic for ordination, 
and returned as missionaries of the Church of 
England to their native colony, where its 
ministrations were before unknown. A 
younger son, Dr. Abraham Jarvis, subse- 
quently became the second Bishop of Con- 
necticut; while the eldest, Samuel Jarvis, who 
had joined his father in signing the memorial, 
removed to Stamford in the same colony, and 
was Church Warden of St. John's Church 
there for many years. 

Wheji the Revolutionary War broke out, it 
found the Church Warden of Stamford with a 
family of five sons and five daughters. He 
could not bring himself to forego his alle- 



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giance to the crown, and finally he was seized 
and sent in an open boat in inclement weather 
across Long Island Sound to join his Loyalist 
friends, the exposure resulting in his death. 

Three of his sons and two sons-in-law were 
prominent among the Loyalists of the time. 
William, one of the sons, served as an officer 
in the Queen's Rangers, the most distinguished 
of the Colonial Corps, under Lieutenant Colo- 
nel Simcoe; and subsequently, on Colonel 
Simcoe's appointment to the Lieutenant Gov- 
ernorship of Upper Canada, Captain Jarvis ac- 
companied him as its first Provincial Secretary 
to York, now Toronto, where he died in 1817. 
Munson and John Jarvis settled in New 
Brunswick, where the former died in 1825, 
and the latter twenty years later, at the ripe 
age of ninety-three. 

Munson Jarvis was a warm Loyalist from 
the first. In April, 1776, he was summoned 
before a committee representing the Revolu- 
tionary element, which had now possession of 
Stamford, and called on to pledge himself to 
the Continental Congress. He brought him- 
self to express his willingness to obey the 
orders of Congress "except as he was held 
back by a religious tie of conscience "; but, 
failing to explain his conscientious scruples 
to the satisfaction of the Committee, he was 
declared an enemy of the country and driven 
from his home. After some years' residence 
in New York he removed in 1783 with other 
Loyalists to the Harbor of St. John. Here 
he at once interested himself in securing the 
ministrations of the Church of England, and 
became one of the first Church Wardens of 



Trinity Church. When the Province of New 
Brunswick was established and the city of St. 
John became incorporated, he served in the 
Provincial Legislature and as a member of the 
Common Council of St. John. 

His only daughter married Major Robert 
Hazen, of H. M. Sixtieth Rifles, a son of 
one of the older settlers at St. John Harbor. 
A collateral relative, Leonard Jarvis, of New- 
buryport, Mass., had been associated with 
Major Hazen's father and Messrs. James 
Simonds and James White in the earliest part- 
nership formed in 1764 for colonizing" the 
Harbor of St. John. 

Munson Jarvis had three sons. The two 
elder, Ralph Munson and William, became 
merchants at St. John, where the former died 
in 1853, and the latter in 1856. His third 
son, the Hon. Edward James Jarvis, became 
Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island, and 
died at Charlottetown in 1852. Ralph Mun- 
son Jarvis rrarried Caroline, daughter of the 
Hon. George Leonard, of .St. John and Sussex 
Vale, N. B. The only male representative of 
his large family now in New Brunswick is his 
grandson, Charles Edward Leonard Jarvis, of 
St. John, son of Edward Lutwyche Jarvis, 
who died at .St. John's, Newfoundland, in 
1878. 

William Jarvis, son of Munson, married in 
1836 Mary Caroline Boyd, daughter of Dr. 
John Boyd of the Royal Medical Staff; and 
the subject of this sketch is their only son. 

William Munson Jarvis is a barrister of the 
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Company for the Maritime Provinces of Can- 
ada. In 1 866 he became a Lieutenant Colo- 
nel in the New Brunswick militia. In 1871, 
on the incorporation of Portland, now forming 
a part of St. John, he became a member of the 
Town Council. He has served as president 
of the Sunday-school Teachers' Association of 
the Deanery of St. John, vice-president of the 
Diocesan Church Society of New Brunswick, 
and president of the New Bnuiswick Board of 
Fire Underwriters, and is now president of 
the St. George's Society of St. John, presi- 
dent of the Board of Trade of the Maritime 
Provinces, and vice-president of the St. John 
Board of Trade. 

He married in 1861 Jane Hope, daughter of 
Captain Beer, R.N. She died in 1866, leav- 
ing three children. He married second, 
in 1868, Mary Lucretia, daughter of William 
Henry Scovil, merchant, St. John. She died 
in 1873, leaving two daughters. His son, 
Edward William, born in 1862, is now in the 
bank of Montreal, Toronto. One of his 
daughters is Mrs. J. W. Digby, of Brantford, 
and another, Mrs. Percy Domville, of Hamil- 
ton, Ont. ' 



\\C/V'/ILLIAM SHEPPARD SAUN- 
Y^Y^ DERS, ex-Mayor of the town of 
Woodstock, N.B. , is prominently identified 
with its mercantile interests as an extensive 
and successful dealer in dry goods. He was 
born in Woodstock, July 29, 1854. His 
father, the late Edward Saunders, of Benton, 
N.B., was born in I'redericton, where his 



grandfather Saunders, whose name was John, 
settled on arriving in New Brunswick. 

John Saunders emigrated from Scotland 
soon after attaining his majority. He had 
learned the blacksmith's trade in Edinburgh, 
and for a short time he worked at it in F'red- 
ericton. Removing thence to Woodstock, he 
embarked in the blacksmithing business on 
his own account, and continued thus engaged 
luitil his death. 

lidward Saunders when a young boy came 
with his parents to Woodstock, where he at- 
tended the common school, and afterward 
learned the trade of a tanner and currier. He 
worked as a journeyman for a while, and then 
started in business for himself at Florence- 
ville, conducting a tannery and manufacturing 
boots and shoes. A few years later he sold 
out his establishment, and went to Vanceboro, 
Me., to enter the employ of F. Shaw & 
Brothers, tanners of sole leather. He contin- 
ued as foreman in one of their immense factories 
for several years, but resigned the position to 
become a member of the firm of Parsons, Gib- 
son & Saunders at Benton, N. B., where he re- 
mained until his demise. The firm carried on 
a very large tanning business, and its leather 
acquired such a reputation throughout Canada 
for superior cpialities that just prior to his 
death Mr. Edward .Saunders was offered a 
magnificent salary to become superintendent 
of one of the largest tanneries in the Do- 
minion. He was made a Mason at Sussex 
Lodge, St. Stephen, N. B. , and was a member 
of the Baptist church. He married Jane, 
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Seven children were born of this union and 
six survive, all residing in Woodstock. They 
are: William Sheppard, whose personal history 
is given below; Annie, wife of Wallace 
Mcllroy; Ella, wife of John McAdam ; 
George, of the firm of Saunders Brothers: Ed- 
ward, a physician; and Guy, a merchant 
tailor. 

William Sheppard Saunders, having attended 
the superior school of Florenceville and the 
grammar school of Woodstock, took a com- 
mercial course at a business college in St. 
John. His first position was that of book- 
keeper for F. Shaw & Brothers, with whom he 
remained two years. Then, after acting as 
clerk in a Woodstock dry-goods store a year, 
he was on the road as travelling salesman for 
the Taylor Manufacturing Company of New 
Ikitain, Conn., for a year. He was subse- 
quently with Parsons, Gibson & Saunders 
until 1877, when he opened his present dry- 
goods establishment in Woodstock. For a 
few years Mr. Saunders conducted the busi- 
ness alone, Init as his trade increased he 
needed assistance in maintaining it, and took 
into partnership his brother, George H. 
.Saunders, under the present firm name of 
Saunders Brothers. 

Politically, Mr. Saunders was formerly 
identified witJi the Liberal party, _. but he is 
now Independent. His record of public ser- 
vice is long and honorable. For a number of 
years he was a member of the County Coun- 
cil; in 189s and 1896 he served as Mayor of 
the town ; and in 1897 he was again elected 
to the County Council. While he was Mayor, 



the present excellent system of sewerage, 
which has proved of inestimable benefit and 
value to the place, was first introduced. Fra- 
ternally, he was made a Mason in Sussex 
Lodge, F. & A. M. , and demitted to Wood- 
stock Lodge, of which he is P. M. He is also 
a member of Woodstock Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
and of Carleton Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of which 
he is P. G. He has been a member of the 
Board of School Trustees of the town for 
years. 

Mr. -Saunders married Janet Smith, daugh- 
ter of George and Margaret Murray, of 
Benton, N. B. , and they have eight children, 
namely: Kate Marion; William E., of the 
class of 1900, in the McGill Medical College, 
Montreal, Canada ; Murray S. ; Harry P. ; 
I'rederick S. ; Annie N. ; Jean E. ; and E. J. 
Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are both 
members of the Baptist church, and he is 
superintendent of the Sunday-school con- 
nected with it. 



JOHN JAMES ERASER, 
=^ Q. C, LL. D., fourth Lieutenant 
Governor of New Brunswick, was 
born at Beaubair's Island, Miramichi, North- 
umberland County, N. B., August i, 1829, son 
of John Fraser, one of the Farraline Phrasers 
of Inverness, Scotland. His mother, Mar- 
garet Fraser, was a daughter oE Hugh Fraser, 
son of "Fair Anne," daughter of the sixth 
Lord Lovat. Hon. J. J. P"'raser received his 
general education at the Newcastle Grammar 
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the office of Messrs. Street & Davidson, New- 
castle. He was admitted as attorney in 1S50, 
as barrister in 1852, and became a Queen's 
Counsel in 1873. He came to Fredericton in 
1851, when the Hon. Mi. Street became At- 
torney-General. In 1S65 he was elected one 
of the Representatives of York in the Provin- 
cial Assembly on the Anti-confederation plat- 
form. The government resigned the next year, 
and in the ensuing contest Mr. Fraser was de- 
feated. In June, 1871, he was appointed a 
member of the Legislative Council and presi- 
dent of the Executive Council ; but these posi- 
tions he resigned in 1872, to accept the oflice 
of Provincial Secretary in the King admin- 
istration, being elected by his York County 
constituents by acclamation. When the Hon. 
Mr. King retired from politics in 1870, Mr. 
Fraser became Attorney-General and Premier 
of the province, and continued in that office 
until May, 1882, when he resigned to become 
a candidate for the Dominion House, in which 
contest, however, he was unsuccessful. In 
December of the same year, on the death of 
Mr. Justice Duff, he was appointed to the 
bench of the Supreme Court, which position 
he held until December, 1893, when he was 
offered, and accepted, the Lieutenant-Govern- 
orship of New Brunswick. His health fail- 
ing, in the hope of regaining it and on the 
advice of his physicians, he left home, Novem- 
ber 2, 1896, to travel through the south of 
France and Italy. But the warning was but 
preliminary to the final summons; and he died 
a few days after reaching Genoa, November 
24, 1S96. Governor Fraser's death was felt 



not only as a great personal bereavement by 
his immediate family and friends, but as a 
public calamity throughout the province, and 
particularly in his own county of York, where 
he was greatly loved and respected. He was 
several times president of St. Andrew's So- 
ciety. He received the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws from the University of New 
Brunswick. 

Governor Fraser was first married in Sep- 
tember, 1867, to Martha, daughter of the late 
Alexander Gumming, of Fredericton. In 
May, 18S4, he married for his second wife 
J. M. Paulette, daughter of the late Hon. 
Charles Fisher, D. C. L. , of P'redericton. 
Mrs. Fraser still occupies the beautiful family 
residence, Farraline Place. 




lETER ROBERTSON INCHES, 
M.D., M.R.C.S., England, a lead- 
ing physician of St. John, N.B., 
his native city, was born on the nineteenth 
day of February, 1835. He was christened 
Patrick. His parents, James and Janet 
(Small) Inches, emigrated in 1832 and settled 
in St. John, the former being a native of 
Dunkeld, and the latter a native of Dirnanean, 
Strathardts, Perthshire, Scotland. 

Dr. Inches received his early education in 
the grammar school of St. John, and subse- 
quently studied medicine in New York City 
at the University Medical College; and from 
this institution he graduated in 1866. Going 
then to Great Britain, he further prosecuted 
his studies at the L^niversity of Edinburgh, 



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Scotland, and at King's College, London. In 
1868 he was elected a member of the Royal 
College of Surgeons of England, and shortly 
after returned to St. John, N.B., where he 
commenced the practice of his profession. 
Dr. Inches was brought up in the faith as 
taught by the Presbyterian church, and has 
continued his connection with that body of 
Christians. 

In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage 
with Mary Dorothea, daughter of Dr. C. K. 
Fiske, a native of Massachusetts, who for 
many years practised medicine in St. John. 
Of this marriage seven children have been 
born, six of whom are living. 




MASA EMERSON KILLAM, of 
Moncton, N. B. , was for many years a 
member of the Provincial Parlia- 
ment, and in that capacity was notably faith- 
ful to the interests of the county and city 
which he represented. A son of the late 
Joseph A. Killam, he was born August 25, 
1834, in Dorchester, N. B. His great-grand- 
father, Amasa Killam, was an officer in the 
English army, and served during the Ameri- 
can Revolution. At the close of that war he 
was stationed at Halifax, N. S., where he died 
while on garrison duty. He had two sons — 
Cyprian and Comfort; and of these Cyprian, 
the first-born, was the next in line of descent. 
Cyprian Killam was born in Connecticut, 
one of the New England .States, but in his 
youthful days he became a resident of Dor- 
chester, Westmorland County, N.B., where 



he was busily engaged in agricultural pursuits 
until his death, at the age of seventy-one 
years. His wife, whose maiden name was 
Mary Black, attained the venerable age of 
eighty-seven years. Both were devoted mem- 
bers of the Methodist church. Of their 
eleven children but one survives, John A;, 
who married a cousin. Comfort Killam, and 
has eight children living. 

Joseph A., son of Cyprian Killam, was 
born on the parental homestead in Dorchester, 
N. B. In his youth he obtained a good knowl- 
edge of farm work and also learned the black- 
smith's trade. A few years after his mar- 
riage he moved with his family to Salisbury, 
N. B. , where during the last forty years of his 
life he worked at his trade in conjunction 
with general farming. He was industrious, 
enterprising, and quite successful in both 
branches of industry, and was highly respected 
in the community in which he spent so many 
years. He married Margaret Wheaton, a na- 
tive of Salisbury, and they became the parents 
of ten children. Of these six are living, 
namely: Amasa Emerson, the subject of this 
sketch; Mary J., wife of John Brown, of 
Salisbury; Dorcas, wife of David Jonah; 
William W. , who married Margaret Kenney; 
Joseph A., who married Frank Ferry; and 
Addie, wife of Oliver Price. The father, 
who died at the age of sixty-eight years, was 
a pillar of the Methodist church, while his 
wife was a member of the Baptist church. 
•She preceded him to the world beyond, pass- 
ing away when sixty-five years old. 

Amasa Emerson Killam was but two years 



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old when he went with his parents to Salis- 
bury, where he acquired his early education. 
There he subsequently worked as a farmer and 
bridge builder for a number of years, but in 
187s returned to Moncton, which he has made 
his permanent home. While living in Salis- 
bury he was Postmaster of Wheaton Settle- 
ment from 1863 until 1S74, and during that 
time he built the Albert Railway, of which 
he was manager a number of years. In 1S81 
he completed the construction of the St. 
Martin's & Upham Railway, and for five years 
thereafter had charge of that road. In 1885 
and 18S6 he built the Havelock end of the 
Petitcodiac & Havelock Railroad, which he 
managed the next three years. In 1SS9 he re- 
tired from active work connected with either 
railway or bridge building, although he is at 
the present time one of the directors of the 
Albert Southern Railway Company. 

Politically, Mr. Killam is a strong sup- 
porter of the principles of the Liberal party, 
and is an active worker in its ranks. Pie was 
elected to the Provincial Parliament in 187S, 
and has been re-elected several times since. 
In that body he served with great fidelity 
during each term of service, giving general 
satisfaction; and he would still be one of its 
members had he not resigned on May i, 1S97, 
two years before the expiration of his term, to 
accept a government position as I^ridge In- 
spector of Canada, an office which he still 
holds. 

Mr. Killam married on July 25, 1857, 
Millicent Wheaton, by whom he had seven 
children, five of whom are living, namely: 



Emily A., born April 14, 1861; Clarence E., 
born Decemljer 16, 1865; Edward A., born 
May 14, 1868; Frank L., born September 25, 
1870; and Jessie ]., born October 31, 1S72. 
A daughter, Carrie J., who was born March 
13, 1859, died in April, 1898. Mrs. Milli- 
cent W. Killam died at the age of fifty-five 
years. She was a most estimable woman and 
a member of the Baptist church. On October 
2, 18S9, Mr. Killam married Mrs. Mary 
Alice Hallett, Ijorn McKay, who by her first 
marriage has one child, Ella M. Hallett, born 
April 23, 1882. Mrs. Killam and Miss 
Hallett are members of the Presbyterian 
church. 




ILLIAM BAYARD, M.D., a highly 
esteemed physician of St. John, 
N.B., is one of the oldest members of the 
medical fraternity in this province, and is well 
known in professional, literary, and social 
circles. He was born in Kentville, N.S. , 
August 21, 1 8 14, a son of the late Dr. Robert 
Bayard. 

Mention of this surname at once brings to 
mind its foremost bearer in the ranks of fame, 
the Chevalier de Bayard (1475-1524), styled 
in song and history the knight "without fear 
and without reproach," a phrase which, as a 
motto, is used to-day on the Bayard coat of 
arms. The common ancestor of Dr. Bayard 
of St. John and the late Hon. Thomas F. 
Bayard, for many years United States Senator 
from Delaware, four years Secretary of State, 
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States at the Court of St. James, was Samuel 
Bayard, a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, 
Holland, who married Anne Stuyvesant, 
daughter of the Rev. Balthazar Stuyvesant 
and sister of Peter Stuyvesant, one of the 
early Governors of New Amsterdam. Accoi^d- 
ing to the family tradition Samuel Bayard, 
who died previous to 1647, ''^'''^l his sister 
Judith, the wife of Governor Stuyvesant, were 
descendants of a Huguenot preacher who on 
account of religious persecution in France 
went to Holland. In 1647 Mrs. Anne S. 
Bayard, a widow, came over with Governor 
Stuyvesant, bringing her four children — 
Catharine, Petrus, Balthazar, and Nicholas. 
The Delaware family of Bayards descended 
from Petrus through his son Samuel, who set- 
tled in Maryland. Colonel John Bayard, of 
Philadelphia, in Revolutionary times a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Safety, was of the 
same line. One of the early American 
l^ayards removed to lingland, where he 
founded the family from which Dr. Bayard of 
St. John is sprung. 

Colonel Samuel Vetch Bayard, the Doctor's 
grandfather, was a distinguished officer in the 
English army. He had three sons, one of whom 
was a captain in the English army. One of 
these was killed at the battle of Waterloo. 
The other, a Post captain in the English navy, 
was murdered at P'ordham, N. Y. The third 
was Dr. Robert Ba}'ard, above named. 

Dr. Robert l^ayard was a Lieutenant in the 
British army at the age of thirteen yeai's, but 
on account of his youth was allowed to pro- 
ceed with his studies at Windsor, N. S. His 



father's regiment was then stationed at Halifax. 
He subsequently gave up his commission, and, 
after reading medicine for a period, entered the 
University of Edinburgh, from which he re- 
ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 
1809. The degree of Doctor of Civil Law 
was conferred upon him by King's College, 
Windsor, N.S. Just after his graduation he 
became professor of obstetrics in the Univer- 
sity of New York, hjut during the War of 181 2 
he was forced to take the oath of allegiance 
or leave the country. Choosing the latter 
alternative, he made his way to Portland, Me., 
from whence he sailed in an open boat to St. 
John, N. B. , arriving in May, 1813. Subse- 
quently going to Halifa.x, N. S., he was there 
for a short time, and then settled as a practi- 
tioner in Kentville, N. S., where he remained 
until 1S24, when he returned to St. John 
to spend the remainder of his life. He built 
up an extensive jsractice in this city, and 
until his death, in June, 1868, at the age of 
eighty-one years, was one of the most noted 
physicians of this section. While living in 
Halifax, N. S. , he married Frances Catherine, 
daughter of Commissary Robertson, who was 
killed in the Colonial War of 1775, and the 
grand- daughter of Colonel John Billop, a 
Loyalist, who, being forced to abandon his old 
home, his large property on Staten Island, 
New York Harbor, having been confiscated, 
settled in St. John. 

William Bayard, when but tweh'e years old, 
was sent to P"ordham, N. Y. , where for five years , 
he was a pupil in the school conducted by the 
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was afterward under the private tuition of Dr. 
Valentine Mott, tlie celebrated surgeon of New 
York, whose fame became world-wide ; and he 
also attended medical lectures at the college. 
Going thence to Edinburgh, Scotland, he en- 
tered the University, from which he graduated 
in 1837 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
cine. After spending a few months on the 
continent, visiting hospitals in Paris and Ger- 
many, many of which he has since revisited, 
he returned to St. John and began the practice 
of his profession with his father, whom he 
eventually succeeded. A writer familiar with 
his career has written of him in these compli- 
mentary words: "Almost from the start Dr. 
Bayard has made a brilliant success. He has 
been greatly honored by the medical frater- 
nity and by his fellow-citizens, and it is safe 
to say that no man in his profession in the 
Provinces is held in higher esteem. There is 
not a city or large town in New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island to which 
he has not been called upon professional busi- 
ness. " 

To the Doctor's persistent energy the St. 
John Public Hospital owes its existence. He 
brought the matter of establishing such an in- 
stitution before the city authorities, but re- 
ceived no encouragement. He tried to raise 
money for the purpose by general subscription, 
but failed. Employing then a lawyer to draft 
an act to assess the amount required, he placed 
the bill before the Provincial Legislature; and, 
with the assistance of the late Sir Leonard 
Tilley and the Hon. John H. Gray, and 
others, the bill to raise funds enough to erect 



the building and to provide for its future sup- 
port was passed. Since its establishment, in 
i860, Dr. Bayard has been chairman of the 
Board of Commissioners. He was also chair- 
man of the Board of Health for the city and 
county of St. John, a position to which he was 
appointed by government in 1855, just after 
the passage of the Sanitary Act of that year. 
For four years in succession he was elected 
president of the New Brunswick Medical So- 
ciety, an office which he resigned in 1881. 
He was president of the Council of Physicians 
and Surgeons from 1881 until 1885, when he 
resigned. He was Coroner of the city and 
count}', holding the position twenty-eight 
years, when there was but one Coroner where 
si.x are now required to perform the work, al- 
though there has been but small increase in 
population. 

Dr. Bayard was for several years the New 
Brunswick editor of the Montreal Medical and 
Surgical Journal, to which he contributed many 
articles of value. He is well versed in all 
branches of medicine, and is considered an 
authority on all subjects connected with the 
science. Among his lectures that are of 
especial value are those upon "The Use and 
Abuse of Alcoholic Drinks," which was given 
before the Medical Society, and one delivered 
in Mechanics' Institute upon "The Progress of 
Medicine, Surgei'y, and Hygiene during the 
Last One Hundred Years." He is a Conserv- 
ative in politics and a member of the Church 
of England. He was president of the Cana- 
dian Medical Association in 1895, and is now 
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In 1S48 Dr. Bayard married Susan Maria, 
daughter of John Wilson, Esq., of Chamcook, 
N. B. , formerly a large ship-owner and mer- 
chant and one of the promoters of the St. An- 
drew's & Woodstock Railway. It was from 
him that Dr. Bayard received the first tele- 
gram sent to St. John, and which read thus: — 

To Dr. W. Bayard. April 30, 1S51. 

Being the first .subscriber to the Electric Telegrapli 
Company, I am honored by the first communication to 
your city announcing this great and wonderful work 
God has made known to man by giving him control of 
his lightning. ^^.^^^^^ jQ^^, Wilson. 

Mrs. Bayard died in 1876, lea\'ing no chil- 
dren. She was a most estimable woman, hos- 
pitable and benevolent, and always happy 
when doing something for others. She was 
eminently domestic in her tastes, and took 
especial delight in entertaining her own and 
the Doctor's friends. She spent much time in 
looking" after the poor and unfortunate and in 
visiting the Home for Aged Women, the Prot- 
estant Orphan Asylum, and other charitable 
institutions. 



-OHN I. STEEVES, a highly respected 
citizen of Hillsboro, N.15,, arid one of 
its most prosperous agriculturists, was 
born February 13, 1848, on the farm where he 
now resides, and on which his father, the late 
John L. B. Stecvcs, passed his entire life. 

Among the original settlers of this section 
of Albert County was Henry, or, as the name 
is called in Dutch, Hendrick, Steeves, who 
came here from Pennsylvania. In May, 
1763, just after the close of the P'rench and 



Indian War, a sloop commanded by Captain 
Hall sailed from Pennsylvania for New Bruns- 
wick, having on board the families of Hendrick 
Steeves and of Messrs. Jones, Trites, Ricker, 
Lutz, and Somers. On July i of that year, 
after a tedious voyage, the vessel stopped at a 
small creek on the north side of Gray's 
Island; and there Mr. Steeves and his wife, 
Rachel, landed with their seven sons — -Jacob, 
John, Christian, Frederick, Ludwig, Henry, 
and Matthias, whose ages ranged from four- 
teen years down to two years. The remainder 
of the party proceeded up the river to what is 
now the town of Moncton. At Hillsboro 
Hendrick Steeves took up a tract of land that 
was formerly settled by the P'rench. He 
reared a log cabin for a home, and struggled 
along for a few years, living largely upon the 
game to be found in the vicinity and the fish 
from the streams. By 1766, however, his 
prospects brightened; and by 1770 he and his 
boys had a large field cleared and cultivated, 
and he owned several cattle. Thereafter 
prosperity smiled upon his efforts, and he 
lived in comfort the remainder of his days. 
To-day his descendants, through his seven 
sons, may be found among the honored citi- 
zens of every Province of the Dominion and 
in every State of the Union. One of them, 
W. H. Steeves, was the first Postmaster of 
Hillsboro, an office to which he was appointed 
in 1832; and he was further distinguished in 
1S47 by being chosen as the first member from 
Albert County to the Legislature, a position 
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Jacob Steeves, the next in line of descent, 
was born in Pennsylvania, where he lived 
until he was fourteen years old, when in 1763 
he came with his parents to Hillsboro. He 
assisted in clearing the homestead, to the 
ownership of which he succeeded, and during 
his entire life was employed in farming, hunt- 
ing, and fishing. When twenty-one years old 
he went up the Petitcodiac River in a boat of 
his own construction to the hamlet at which 
friends that came from the old provinces, now 
the States, when he did had settled; and there 
he married his first and only sweetheart, Cath- 
erine, daughter of Jacob Lutz. Returning 
home with his bride, he built a log house 
about thirty rods from his father's abode, and 
from that time continued the improvements 
and cultivation of the property. One of the 
most important of his undertakings was the 
building of dykes to keep the tide out of the 
marsh. He reared several children, one of 
whom, John, the eldest son, was the grand- 
father of John I., the special subject of this 
sketch. 

John Steeves spent his life in Hillsboro, and 
was known far and wide as one of the leading 
farmers of the day, as well as an extensive 
ship-owner and mill operator. He was an 
expert in the use of carpenter's tools and of 
surgical instruments, and on account of his 
ability to do any kind of mechanical work, 
from the building of a house or ship to the 
amputating of a leg, he was nicknamed "The 
King." He married Jane Beatty. She died 
at the age of threescore and ten, while he at- 
tained the venerable age of eighty-four. Both 



were highly esteemed throughout the town; 
and she was a member of the Baptist church, 
which he attended. They had a family of 
eleven children, seven boys and four girls, of 
whom but one child is living, namely: Jane, 
who is the widow of Samuel Gross, and has 
four children — Nancy, Augusta, Maud, and 
Frank. 

John L. B. Steeves, the youngest child, 
was born in 1821 on the Steeves homestead, 
where he successfully engaged in agricultural 
pursuits during the active part of his life of 
seventy-one years. Taking an intelligent in- 
terest in all things pertaining to the welfare 
of his town and county, he became a citizen of 
influence, and for many years served as Magis- 
trate, and also as Supervisor of Roads. In 
politics he was identified with the Liberals. 
He married Lavina, daughter of Isaac Gross, 
of Hillsboro; and she survives him, living at 
the old homestead with her son, John I. 
Mrs. Steeves is a valued member of the Bap- 
tist church, of which her husband was for 
many years a Deacon. Nine children were 
born of their marriage, and seven of them are 
living; namely, Ruth, John I., Emma, Ada, 
Martha, Frank \V. , and Laura. Ruth is the 
wife of Mariner J. Smith, and has four chil- 
dren — Arnot, Frank, Horace, and Gertrude. 
Emma is the wife of William H. Duffy, and 
has six children — ^ Arthur, Carl, Paul, Leon, 
Robert, and Burpee; Ada, the wife of George 
H. Steadman, has one child, Harold; Martha, 
whose first husband, Stephen Colpitt, left her 
one child, .Stephana, is now the wife of James 
Best, by whom she has two children — Charles 



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and Ruth; Frank W. married Lizzie Colpitt, 
and has three children — Blanche, Ora, and 
Maggie; and Laura is the wife of Burpee 
Anderson, and has two children — John and 
Mary. 

John I. Steeves received his education in 
the schools of Hillsboro, and in his father's 
fields obtained a practical knowledge of agri- 
culture. Following in the footsteps of his 
ancestors, he has chosen farming as his prin- 
cipal occupation, and on the old home farm is 
meeting with admirable success. On Novem- 
ber 2, 1880, he married Amanda, daughter of 
Jonathan T. Colpitt, of Salisbury, N.B. ; and 
their only child, Nellie, was born May 25, 
1882. In politics Mr. Steeves is a Liberal, 
and in his religious belief he is a Baptist, 
being an active member of the church of that 
denomination, in which he has succeeded his 
father as Deacon. Mrs. Amanda Steeves, a 
sincere Christian, belongs to the Methodist 
church. 




"ON. THOMAS R. JONES, banker 
and broker of St. John and ex-mem- 
ber of the Legislative Council of 
New Brunswick, was born in St. John on Sep- 
tember 12, 1825, son of John and Eliza (Rose- 
land) Jones. He is of Welsh ancestry and a 
descendant of one John Jones, who was born 
near Danvers, Mass., engaged in ship-build- 
ing there, and about 1776 was sent to New 
Brunswick by the General Court of Massachu- 
setts to look after certain ship-building inter- 
ests here. He located where St. John now 
stands, but after the Revolutionary War went 



with a Mr. Nevers to Sunbury County. 
There he built a large ship, which was 
brought to St. John, but upon reaching her 
destination ran on the rocks and was de- 
stroyed. Although crippled financially by 
this disaster, he subsequently built another 
large ship, which, however, was burned by the 
Americans in the War of 18 12. Going subse- 
quently to the head of The Mistake in Kings 
County, he located a large tract of land, which 
is now owned and occupied by his youngest 
grandson. His wife was a Miss Mercy Hil- 
drick, of Danvers, Mass., member of the fam- 
ily of that name so well known in both Eng- 
land and Massachusetts; and she bore him a 
large family of children. Of these Samuel, 
the eldest, engaged in farming in Kings 
County. He married Mary Palmer, a mem- 
ber of the Sunbury family of that name who 
came here in 1776. Of their two sons, John, 
father of the Hon. Thomas R. Jones, was the 
youngest. 

John Jones was a lifelong resident of St. 
John. His three children were: Thomas R.; 
Amelia J., who married James M. Robertson; 
and Samuel. 

One of Mr. Jones's maternal ancestors was 
that Thomas Mullin who was the first native 
of Ireland that ever settled in New Brunswick 
of whom there is any authentic account. He 
was born in the north of Ireland, came out to 
New York previous to the Revolution, and to 
St. John in 1783 with the I'all Fleet of 
Loyalists. Here he died in 1796, and was 
buried in the old city grave-yard, nearly in 
front of the present police office. He was an 








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innkeeper; and his advertisement, given 
below, cut from the pages of an old newspaper, 
is both interesting- and suggestive: — 

"Thomas Mullin, 

" Who formerly kept the Royal Punch 
House in the city of New York, begs leave 
to inform his friends, and the public in gen- 
eral, that he has now opened a tavern at the 
Bunch of Grapes, No. 403, Prince William 
Street, town, of Parr, River St. John's, di- 
rectly opposite the public landing, between 
the Exchange Coffee House and Post Office. 
He is at present finishing his house in such a 
manner as to be calculated for commercial 
business, public or select comj^anies, etc. 
His being always known to keep a plentiful 
stock of the best liquors, and an hospitable 
table, induces him to hope for a share of the 
public countenance. 

"Having transplanted as much loyalty in 
this promising country as he could, he hopes 
his friends and customers will be pleased to 
honor his tavern with the appellation of the 
Royal Punch House. 

"Said Mullin also carries on the black- 
smith's business in all its branches at his 
shop adjoining the provision store. He has 
particularly laid himself out for heavy work, 
edge tools and ship work, and will always be 
provided with a tolerable stock of hardware, 
etc. His customers may be assured that all 
orders for work in said business sJiall be exe- 
cuted in a proper manner and with greatest 
despatch. 

"Parr, August 5tli, 1783." 



The Hon. Thomas R. Jones was engaged in 
mercantile business from his fourteenth year 
until the time of the great fire in 1877, when 
he met with the financial loss of nearly a 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Since 
then he has been successfully engaged in his 
present line of business. For eight years he 
served the city as Alderman, and for twenty- 
two years he was in the Legislative Council. 
Mr. Jones was made a Mason in 1849. ^^^ 's 
a member of the Church of England, and at- 
tends St. Paul's Church. He was married in 
1852 to Miss Mary Jane Donney, daughter of 
Charles and Mary Donney. Of the eleven 
children born of their union, eight are living, 
six sons and two daughters. 



AMES RHODES RUEL, late Collector 
of Customs and Registrar of Shipping 
at the port of St. John, was born at 
Pembridge House, Welsh Newton, Hereford- 
shire, England, October 22, 1820, and died in 
St. John, N.B., March 8, 1900. He was a 
son of John Godfrey and Catherine ]5arbara 
(Clery) Ruel. 

The family is of German origin, and the 
name was formerly spelled Ri.ihl. One of its 
members in the sixteenth century was Dr. 
Johann Riihl, of Mansfeld, who is on record 
as having "filled a place of considerable emi- 
nence in the political world of his day," being 
Chancellor of the Archbishop of Mayntz, the 
Elector Albert of Brandenburg, and the favo- 
rite counsellor of the younger counts of 
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Nuremberg, and at other similar assemblies. 
Dr. Johann Riihl was a brother-in-law of the 
great religious reformer, Martin Luther (hav- 
ing married one of his sisters), and supported 
him at the historic interview with Cardinal 
Cajetan at Augsburg. He was a friend and 
correspondent of Luther and an honored guest 
at his wedding. 

These and other interesting particulars are 
contained in a monograph entitled "The Par- 
ents and Kinsfolk of Luther," by Robert C. 
Jenkins, M. A. , rector of Lyminge and Hon- 
orary Canon of Canterbury. Mr. Jenkins 
is a cousin of Mr. Ruel, the Collector of the 
port of St. John, and is a grandson of Johanna 
Regina Ruel, who claimed a direct descent 
from Dr. Johann Riihl. The Riihl family, 
which was of senatorial rank in the city of 
Heilbronn, was related to the Counts Fugger, 
Kirchburg, and Weissanharn. The present 
head of that house is Prince Babenhausen, who 
is a kinsman of Her Majesty Queen Victoria 
through the house of Hohenlohe-Langeburg. 

Gottfried Ruhl, a descendant of Dr. Johann 
and great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, settled in London about one hundred 
and eighty years ago. He was distinguished 
as a man of wealth. Later generations of the 
family in England changed the spelling of the 
name to its present form of Ruel. 

John Godfrey Ruel, grandson of Gottfried, 
was born in London and educated at Harrow. 
Entering the navy, he acquired considerable 
distinction as an officer in the Royal Marines 
on board H. M. S. "Thetis" and other war 
vessels, and remained in the service until the 



declaration of peace in 1815. In 181 7 he 
married Catherine Barbara Clery, a descendant 
of a French count, and in 1833 he emigrated 
to New Brunswick, accompanied by his wife, 
six sons, and three daughters. He returned 
to England in 1849, and died there in 1852. 
His wife died in 1887, at the advanced age of 
ninety-eight years. 

James Rhodes Ruel began his education in 
the high school of Monmouth, England, and 
completed it at the grammar school in St. 
John. Entering the service of the city cor- 
poration in July, 1839, he became successively 
Deputy Common Clerk, Clerk of the Peace, 
Auditor of County and City Accounts, and 
Chamberlain of the City. On November i, 
1870, he was appointed by the Canadian gov- 
ernment Collector of Customs and Registrar 
of Shipping at this port, which position he 
held until his death; and his long reten- 
tion in office attests his efficient performance 
of the important duties intrusted to his charge. 
In September, 1850, he became associated 
with the Rev. Dr. I. W. D. Gray in the edi- 
torship of the Church Witness, a newspaper 
established to counteract the teachings of the 
High Church party in the Church of England; 
and, taking its sole management in 1855, he 
continued to conduct it until 1864, when its 
publication ceased. 

When a young man he supported the views 
of the Tractarian school, but, becoming con- 
vinced that they were not in accordance with 
the teachings of the early reformers of the 
Church of England, he abandoned them for the 
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He was a member of St. John's Church 
continuously from 1833 to the time of his 
death and was a warden for over twenty years ; 
and in 1853, when the church edifice became 
the place of worship of a separate parish, he 
was elected a vestryman and vestry clerk. Mr. 
Ruel for many years took a deep interest 
in the general welfare of the city and its devel- 
opment. He contributed liberally toward the 
original fund raised for the purpose of estab- 
lishing the Free Public Library, and served 
as its secretary and treasurer from the time of 
its organization until 1897, when he resigned. 
During the agitation of the project for the 
confederation of the provinces, he was chair- 
man of the British American Association, 
which was founded especially to promote the 
success of that movement. 

In 1854 Mr. Ruel contracted the first of his 
two marriages with Harriet, daughter of John 
Kinnear. She died in 1859, having had one 
daughter who also died; and in 1861 
he wedded for his second wife Sophia 
M. Johnston, daughter of the Hon. Hugh 
Johnston. She became the mother of five 
children, namely: Frederick Herbert Johnston 
Ruel, who is now in the employ of the Bank 
of Montreal; Gerard Godfrey Ruel, LL. B., 
graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Mass., now legal adviser of the Department of 
Railways and Canals at Ottawa; Isabel B., 
who married A. M. Goss, of Plymouth, Eng- 
land; Ernest Swartz, who died in 1894, at the 
age of twenty-one years; and Claudine, who 
died in 1882. Ernest Swartz was a graduate 
of the University of New Brunswick, and 



about to begin a promising career as an attor- 
ney. Mr. Ruel's second wife died in May, 
1894, and to her memory and that of her son 
he erected a handsome fountain in Fernhill 
Cemetery, which he had previously assisted 
in beautifying. 




ILAS ALWARD, O.C, A.M., 
D.C.L., a highly honored member 
of the legal fraternity, resident in 
St. John, was born at Brunswick, Queens 
County, N. B. , on April 14, 1842, son of John 
and Mary A. (Corey) Alward. His grand- 
father, Benjamin Alward, was one of the 
United Empire Loyalists who, at the close of 
the Revolution, came from New Jersey to 
Queens County, where he lived to the ad- 
vanced age of ninety. On his mother's side 
also Mr. Alward is descended from one of the 
old Queens County families. 

Mr. Alward received his degree as Bachelor 
of Arts in i860 from Acadia' College, and his 
Master's degree in 1871 from Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence, R.I., in the States. In 
1882 Acadia College conferred upon him the 
well-merited degree of Doctor of Civil Law. 
He was called to the bar in 1S65, and has 
since been engaged in the practice of his 
profession in St. John. In 1887 he was ap- 
pointed an advisory member of the Commis- 
sion on the Law and Practice and Constitu- 
tion of the Courts, and in 1891 was created a 
Queen's Counsel. Besides holding other po- 
sitions, Dr. Alward has been president of the 
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law school of King's College, Windsor, at St. 
John, in evidence and equity, and a member 
of the School Board. He is at the present 
time governor of Acadia College and a mem- 
ber of the law faculty of King's College, 
Windsor. Among his contributions to politi- 
cal literature have been two brochures, "The 
Issues of the Day " (St. John, 1887) and "The 
Record of the Tory Party" (St. John, 18S7). 
A Liberal in politics and an active and influ- 
ential member of his party. Dr. Alward was 
returned to the Provincial Legislature in 
March, 18S7; but from May, 1889, down to 
1899, he was in active opposition to the Blair 
government. In 1895 he was re-elected for 
St. John by acclamation, g.e. 

Dr. Alward attends the Church of England. 
He was married first in 1869 to Emilie, 
daughter of P. Wickwere, of Canning, N. S. 
Her death occurred in 1879; '^"<^' '" May, 
1888, he married Sarah Edith, daughter of 
W. W. Turnbull, of St. John. Three sons 
have blessed this union; Ernest H. Turnbull, 
who was born on April 4, 1889; William 
Wallace, who was born on August 14, 1892; 
and Cedric Harold, who was burn on January 
12, 1898. Dr. Alward and his family reside 
at Sunnyside, Mount Pleasant, St. John. 



C:XON WOOD, an extensive man- 
ufacturer of ]5ay Verte, Westmor- 
land County, and one of its most 
enterprising and progressive business men, was 
born in this town on the 3d of August, 1846. 
His father, the late Oliver Wood, was born 



at a settlement on the River Herbert in Cum- 
berland County, New Brunswick, where he 
was reared and educated. Learning the trade 
of mason and plasterer, he followed it in Nova 
Scotia for a few years in his early manhood, 
and then came to Bay Verte to locate perma- 
nently. Purchasing a farm, he directed his 
efforts to agricultural pursuits, in connection 
with which he worked sometimes at his trade, 
continuing both until his death, which oc- 
curred on July g, 1880, at the age of fifty- 
eight years. He was an active member of the 
Methodist church, to which his wife also be- 
longed, and 'as one of the pioneers in the 
temperance cause was the leading spirit in 
forming the present division of the temper- 
ance lodge at Bay Verte. He married Cath- 
erine, daughter of Richard Gooden, of the 
town, and they became the parents of eleven 
children, three of whom died in infancy. Si.x 
of the family are now living; namely, R. 
Dixon, Charles, Lizzie, Emma, AnnaM. , and 
Clarence V. The mother died June 9, 1887, at 
the age of sixty-four years. Lizzie Wood is 
the wife of W. J. Wilson, of the Geological 
Surveying Staff at Ottawa, and has three chil- 
dren — Gertrude, Harold, and Percy. Emma, 
whose first husband. Dr. Bamford Duffy, of 
Moncton, died leaving her two children — 
Doro and Arteveldt — is now the wife of 
Charles W. Edgett. 

R. Dixon Wood learned the trade of a 
mason and plasterer under his father, and 
worked at it in various sections of the county 
for several years. In 1871, when ready to 
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farm of seventy-five acres, lying on the Tid- 
nish Road and there followed farming in con- 
nection with his trade for some time. In 
1S75 he enlarged his operations by buying 
fort)' acres of timber land on the Tidnish 
Road and fifty acres of land with a good 
water-power. With characteristic push and 
foresie;ht, he then erected the first shingle- 
mill ever put into operation in this part of the 
Province. After running it successfully for a 
number of years, he was forced on account of 
ill health, which terminated in asthma, to 
abandon that business. Looking about for 
some means of increasing his income, he sub- 
sequently formed a partnership with Charles 
W. Elliott, under the firm name of Elliott & 
Wood, and for a year conducted a general 
store at Bay Verte Corner. Being very un- 
fortunate, the firm failed, and Mr. Wood gave 
up all his property to his creditors. 

Starting again at the foot of the ladder, he 
commenced making bo.xes for the lobster fac- 
tories, and soon after built a steam saw-mill 
on the Tidnish Road for making shingles and 
shocks to be used in the manufacture of 
lobster boxes. In this he met with good suc- 
cess until one disastrous day, July 7, 1883, 
when his entire plant was burned to the 
ground; and as he carried no insurance he 
again lost everything. Nothing daunted, 
however, he rebuilt his mill the same fall, 
and resumed his manufacturing. He soon 
extended his operations by beginning to man- 
ufacture deals, and in 1892 bought the old 
Crane estate at Bay Verte village, and erected 
his present steam factory, which is equipped 



with the most approved modern machinery and 
has every facility required for conducting his 
business. He has likewise greatly improved 
the estate in many particulars, and has more 
especially added to the comforts and conven- 
iences of the residence, which he and his fam- 
ily now occupy. A self-made man in every 
respect implied by the term, he is held in 
high regard as a citizen, a neighbor, and a 
friend, and among his business associates is 
respected for his great energy and capability. 
He is a Liberal Conservative in politics, an 
attendant of the Methodist church, and one of 
its trustees. 

On July 4, 1S71, Mr. Wood married Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Samuel Murry, of Murry 
Road, Botsford, N.B. Of their ten children 
six are living; namely, Ernest E., Walter W., 
Leonard T. , Lavina M., Eva B., and Helen C. 



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LLIAM WOODBURY WELLS, 
of Port Elgin, Westmorland 
County, N.B., is well known in the political 
world, for the past seven years having been a 
member of the Provincial Parliament. He 
was born November 3, i860, at Pointe du Bute, 
N.B., which was also the place of birth of his 
father, Charles C. Wells. He is of P^nglish 
ancestry, being a direct descendant of Will- 
iam Wells, of Yorkshire, England, who mar- 
ried a Miss Dobson, and subsequently emi- 
grated to Pointe du Bute, N. B., where as a 
pioneer settler he cleared and improved a tract 
of land that is still in possession of the Wells 
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trade, and he built a Methodist church at 
Throsk, in which Wesley preached in 1766. 
Both he and his wife were ardent Methodists; 
and, before they left England for Nova Scotia, 
John Wesley knelt in prayer with them, and, 
with a hand on the head of each, commended 
them to divine protection. 

Benjamin Wells, the grandfather of Will- 
iam Woodbury Wells, was a lifelong resident 
of Pointe du Bute, where he attained the vener- 
able age of ninety-one years. For several 
years he owned and operated a large tannery, 
the products of which he sold to a great ex- 
tent in Newfoundland. He was actively in- 
terested in local affairs, and was a member of 
the Methodist church. He married Catherine 
Chappell, of Tidnish, N.S., who died at the 
age of seventy-two years. Of their seven 
children five survive; namely, Charles, Jo- 
seph, William, Ellen, and Jane. 

Charles C. Wells assisted in the various 
branches of agriculture carried on by his 
father until 1858, when he followed the tide 
of emigration westward, hoping that in the 
auriferous soil of the Pacific coast he might 
more speedily and easily realize a fortune than 
he could by farming in New Brunswick. I"or 
two years he toiled in the gold fields of Cali- 
fornia, meeting with fair success, but not 
enough to induce him to remain there. Re- 
turning to Pointe du Bute, he settled on the 
old homestead, where he has been prosper- 
ously engaged in general farming until the 
present day. He is a Liberal in politics. 
He married Sarah Siddall, also of Pointe du 
Bute, and they have three children — William 



Woodbury, Albert J., and Ephraim R. Mrs. 
Wells is a member of the Baptist church. 

William Woodbury Wells graduated from 
Dalhousie College in Nova Scotia in 1886 
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Going 
then to Dorchester, N.B. , he continued the 
study of law with H. R. Emmerson, the pres- 
ent Premier of New Brunswick, and after his 
admission to the bar was for a short time in 
Mr. Emmerson's office at Moncton. In 1887 
Mr. Wells settled at Port Elgin, where for 
three years he was principal of the Superior 
School. In 1890 he opened a law office at 
Port Elgin, and he has since built up an ex- 
tensive and remunerative practice, having 
been very successful from the beginning, his 
local fame as a lawyer of ability spreading 
rapidly. He began his active political career 
in 1892, when he was elected to represent 
Westmorland County in the Provincial Parlia- 
ment, defeating a relative of his, William 
Wilberforce Wells, now Judge Wells. He 
was re-elected in 1895 by acclamation, and 
again elected in February last in a fiercely 
contested campaign, in which two of his col- 
leagues were defeated. At the last session he 
was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House. 
In his party preferences he is a Liberal; in 
his religious belief a Methodist; and, frater- 
nally, he is a member of the Port Elgin 
Court, I. O. F. , which court he has repre- 
sented for several years at the sessions of the 
High Court of New Brunswick, and was one 
of the delegates to the last session of the Su- 
preme Court, I. O. F. 

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Turner, of Port Elgin, were married on Octo- 
ber I, 1889, and they have two children — 
Thorold and Hildeo-arde. 



(^OSIAH WOOD, a member of the 
Senate of Canada since 1895, is one of 
the most prominent and progressive 
business men of Sackville, Westmoreland 
County, N.B. He was born in that town, 
April 18, 1843, a son of Mariner A. and 
Louisa (Trueman) Wood. His great-grand- 
father Wood and his grandfather both bore the 
name Josiah. 

The first Josiah Wood lived in Connecticut, 
United States, where he married Ruth Thomp- 
son, and where his son Josiah was born. 

Josiah Wood, second, came from Connecti- 
cut to Dorchester, N. B., about 1800. He had 
a good education and musical talents, and for 
a time after his arrival taught school and led a 
singing-class. He also had a knowledge of 
fulling and dyeing cloth, and was engaged in 
fitting up and operating mills for that pur- 
pose. After his marriage he commenced a 
general trading business at Dorchester, his 
tastes naturally inclining him to trading and 
speculation. He frecj^uently made trips by 
schooner to the United States in connection 
with his business. On one of these occasions 
the schooner by which he went to New York 
late in the autumn was unable to return on ac- 
count of the severity of the weather, and he 
undertook to make the return journey on 
horseback. He succeeded in getting back to 
Dorchester, but the exposure and cold experi- 



enced on this journey so affected him that he 
died shortly after his arrival home. He mar- 
ried Sarah Ayer, daughter of Mariner Ayer. 
Two children were the fruit of this union, and 
the elder was named Mariner A., in honor of 
his maternal grandfather. 

Mariner A. Wood was born at Dorchester, 
N. B., in 1806. Soon after his father's death 
he came to Sackville, where at the age of 
eighteen years he established himself as a 
merchant. Having a great aptitude for com- 
mercial pursuits, he was very successful in 
his undertakings, and built up a large whole- 
sale and retail country trade. He also be- 
came largely interested in ship-building and 
lumbering. When his sons became old enough 
he took them into partnership with himself, 
and under the firm name of M. Wood & Sons 
continued in business until his death, in 1875. 
As a man of high moral principles, honest and 
upright in all his dealings, and a total ab- 
stainer from alcohol in any form, he was 
held in universal esteem. His wife, Louisa, 
daughter of Harmon Trueman, of Pointe du 
Bute, N.B. , died in 1859, leaving two sons, 
of whom Josiah is the only survivor. Both 
parents were faithful members of the Meth- 
odist church. 

Josiah Wood graduated as Bachelor of Arts 
from the Mount Allison College in Sackville 
with the class of 1863. Intending to prepare 
himself for the bar, he entered the law office 
of ex-Judge (then Mr.) A. L. Palmer at Dor- 
chester, where he studied four years. In 
1867, owing to the ill health of his only 
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home, and soon after admitted both sons into 
the firm, the name becoming M. Wood & 
Sons, as before stated. Since the death of 
his father, in 1875, Mr. Wood has conducted 
the business alone, his brother having died in 
1871. He has greatly enlarged his operations 
during that time, and now devotes himself al- 
most entirely to the wholesale department, 
having a very extensive trade in groceries of 
all kinds. A keen, wide-awake man of busi- 
ness, he is well known outside of his own 
town. He took an important part in the up- 
building of Moncton, having been associated 
with some of its leading citizens in the estab- 
lishment of the Moncton Sugar Refinery, the 
Gas and Water Works, the Cotton Manu- 
facturing Company, and other organizations. 
He has always shown an interest in educa- 
tional matters, and is now treasurer of the 
Board of Regents of Mount Allison Univer- 
sity. An active member of the Conservative 
party, Mr. Wood has for many years occupied 
a place of prominence in political circles, and 
from 1882 until 1895 he represented the 
county of Westmoreland in the Dominion 
Parliament. In the latter year he was ap- 
pointed to the Senate, a position which he is 
filling with credit and ability. 

On January 14, 1874, Mr. Wood married 
Laura S., daughter of Thompson Trucman, of 
Sackville. Six children have been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Wood, and five are living; 
namely, Eleanor L., Herbert M. , Dora B., 
William T. , and Hester V. Mr. and Mrs. 
Wood are both members of the Methodist 
church, toward the support of which he con- 



tributes most generously, besides, as a trustee 
of the church property, looking after its finan- 
cial condition. 



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ILLIAM EZRA VROOM, of the 
■m of Vroom & Arnold, marine and 
general insurance agents, St. John, N. B., is a 
native of Nova Scotia. He was born at Gran- 
ville Ferry, Annapolis County, on March 30, 
1837, the eldest son of Frederick L. B. and 
Eunice (Foster) Vroom. On the paternal 
side he is of Dutch descent. His great- 
grandfather, John Vroom, who was a Loyal- 
ist, settled at Clements, Annapolis County, 
N. S., in 1783, having removed thither from 
Long Island, N. Y. , after the close of the 
war for American independence. 

George Vroom, son of John and grandfather 
of William E., resided in Clements, Annap- 
olis County. A farmer b}^ occupation, he was 
a man of prominence in the community, and 
served for many years as a Magistrate. He 
and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
Amberman, reared a large family of children. 
In 185s Mr. and Mrs. George Vroom took an 
extended trip in a wagon, driving through 
what is now the Dominion of Canada to 
Niagara Falls, and being among the first to 
cross the suspension bridge over the falls, this 
being shortly after it was opened to public 
travel. 

Frederick L. B. Vroom, son of George and 
Mary Vroom, was born in Clements, Annap- 
olis County, in 1S13. He learned the black- 
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worked at it some years. His wife, Eunice, 
was a claii2."hter of Ezra F. Foster, of Brid"e- 
town, Annapolis County, and great-grand- 
daughter of an Englishman who came from 
Essex and settled in Nova Scotia at a very 
early day. She was the mother of seven chil- 
dren, four of whom are living. These are as 
follows: William E, ; Georgiana; Mary, who 
is the wife of Dr. Bingay, of Brier Island; 
and Jessey E. Graves, of Aylesford, Annap- 
olis County. Both parents were members of 
the Church of England. Mrs. Eunice Vroom 
died on December 30, 1875, and Frederick 
L. B. Vroom, about a week later. 

William Ezra Vroom was educated in his 
native village, and rem.ained there until 1852, 
when he went to Bridgetown, where he be- 
came clerk in a mercantile and ship-building 
establishment. Coming to St. John two years 
later, this being the year of the great cholera 
epidemic, he entered the employ of A. Gil- 
christ, a dry-goods merchant, with whom he 
remained for another two years. Subsequent 
to this he removed to the Albert Mines, and 
there managed a store for the purpose of sup- 
plying the miners with provisions and tools. 
Withdrawing from this at the end of a year, 
he returned to St. John, where for a year he 
was in the employ of the Bank of New Bruns- 
wick, and later was chief clerk for the Hon. 
John Robertson, with whom he continued 
until the fall of 1869. At this time he 
formed a partnership with Mr. R. H. Arnold, 
which has existed through all the intervening^ 
years. , At first the two partners were in busi- 
ness for a year in Montevideo, South America, 



and upon their return from that place they es- 
tablished their present line of business in .St. 
John. They have here met with good suc- 
cess, as their honorable methods of dealing in 
all their transactions have won and kept for 
them the confidence of the public. 

In 1864 Mr. Vroom was united in marriage 
with Sarah G. Bond, a native of Neston on 
the Dee, England, but a resident of this coun- 
try since her twelfth year, when she crossed 
the ocean with her father, George W. Bond. 
The following-named children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Vroom: John Pickman, who 
is in the customs department, Kaslo, B.C. ; 
Eunice Frances, wife of Edmund I. Simonds; 
Mary L. ; G. H. W. McK. ; and Frederic 
L. B. Mr. Vroom is a thirty-second degree 
Mason. He and his family are members of 
the Church of England. / 



tRTHUR C. FAIRW^EATHER, of St. 
John, barrister-at-law, and general 
*> — ' agent for the Province of the Com- 
mercial Union Assurance Company of London 
and the Fhenix Insurance Company of Brook- 
lyn, was born in St. John, April 23, 1S44, 
son of Joseph and Jane (Whittaker) Fair- 
weather. He is of Loyalist descent; and an 
account of his ancestry may be found in the 
sketch of his elder brother, George Edwin 
Fairweather, which appears on another page of 
this volume. 

He was educated at the grammar school of 
Kingston, Kings County, and at the Col- 
legiate School at Fredericton. He studied 



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law in the office of Messrs. Gray & Kaye, and 
was admitted an attorney, June i6, 1865, and 
barrister in the month of June, 1867. Since 
then he has been engaged in the practice of 
his profession and in the fire insurance busi- 
ness. He has also been interested to a con- 
siderable extent in farming and stock-raising 
at Fir Shade Farm, Rothesay, Kings County, 
where he resides. 

He was married in August, 1866, to Miss 
Annie R. Lee, daughter of the late George 
Lee, Jr., M.A., of Fredericton. Their chil- 
dren now living are: Margaret Lee, Stewart 
Lee, Percy R. Lee, Jack H. A. Lee, Muriel 
Lee, and Annie R. Lee Fairweather. 




'TEPHEN BURPEE APPLEBY, 
barrister-at-law, Woodstock, N.B. 
was born in Florenceville, Carleton 
County, N.B., October 21, 1833, son of 
Charles S. and Letitia (Burpee) Appleby. 
His grandfather Appleby was born in Eng- 
land, and was for a while a soldier in the 
British army. 

Charles S. Appleby was born in St. John, 
N.B. , where he spent his earliest years. He 
was left fatherless when a lad, and, having 
moved with his widowed mother to Sunbury 
County, there learned the carpenter's trade. 
At this he worked continuously until his mar- 
riage, when he purchased land in Florence- 
ville, where he improved a fine homestead 
property, and engaged in agricultural labor 
until his death. He was the first Postmaster 
at Florenceville, an office which he filled sev- 



eral years, and at one time was also in the 
customs department. A man of ardent tem- 
perance proclivities, he exerted a good influ- 
ence in the communit}', and was a valued 
member of the Sons of Temperance. He be- 
longed to the Congregational Church of Shef- 
field County, and contributed generously 
toward its support. lie married Letitia, 
daughter of Joseph Burpee, of Sheffield, Sun- 
bury County, and they became the parents of 
seven children, namely: one that died young; 
Charles, deceased; James W. , deceased; 
Stephen liurpee, the subject of this sketch; 
Isaac Watts, deceased; Ebenezer, who died 
when a lad; and Caroline Esther, wife of 
William S. Peters, of Florenceville. 

Stephen B. Appleby laid a substantial foun- 
dation for his future education in the common 
schools, and then, after serving a year or 
two as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, 
read law in the office of Lewis P. Fisher, of 
Woodstock. He subsequently attended lect- 
ures at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Mass., and at the University of Albany, 
N.Y., where he received the degree of Bach- 
elor of Laws. In October, 1868, he was ad- 
mitted as an attorney, and the following year 
was made barrister. He has since practised 
his profession most successfully in Wood- 
stock, and has been especially fortunate in 
the prosecution of criminal cases. He is a 
Referee in Equity for Carleton County, and 
also Registrar of the county's births, deaths, 
and marriages. 

Fraternally, Mr. Appleby is a member of 
Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M. Politically, 




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he is an intense Liberal and an uncompromis- 
ing Free Trader. In September, 1S73, he 
was elected to the Dominion Parliament, and 
re-elected in 1874 by acclamation. He served 
continuously until 187S, an honored record of 
public service that shows the esteem in wliich 
he is held throughout the Province. In his 
earlier life he was identified with the militia 
in an official capacity, having been either Ad- 
jutant or Captain of a company of militia for 
a number of years. He is a regular attendant 
of the Presbyterian church, although in relig- 
ious preference lie is a Congregationalist. 

Mr. Appleby married Harriet Elizabeth, 
daughter of John H. Estey, of P^lorenceville, 
N.B. Mr. and Mrs. Appleby have five chil- 
dren, namely: Kate; Charles; Mary, wife of 
F. \\'ilmot Watson, of the parish of Rich- 
mond, Carleton, N.B. ; Helen; and Ruth. 

Charles Appleby, M.A., LL.]^., studied 
law with his father, received the degree of 
Master of Arts from the University of New 
Brunswick and the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws from the Albany University, his father's 
Alma Mater. He is now senior member of 
the firm of Appleby & Ketchum, publishers of 
the Woodstock Despatch. He is likewise 
Lieutenant in the Brighton Engineers. 




"ON. FREDERIC E. BARKER, M.A., 
D.C. L. , Judge of the Supreme Court 
of New Brunswick, was born on 
December 27, 183S, at Sheffield, Sunbury 
County, N. B. , son of Enoch and Mary S. Barker, 
both of whom are now deceased. His paternal 



ancestors emigrated to Sheffield from the State 
of Massachusetts previous to 1760. Mr. 
Barker received his education at Sunbury 
Grammar School and King's College, now the 
University of New Brunswick. He graduated 
at the latter institution, receiving the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts in 1857, and he subsequently 
took the degrees of Master of Arts, Bachelor 
of Civil Law, and Doctor of Civil Law. He 
was admitted as an attorney in 1S60, as a bar- 
rister in 1861, and appointed a O. C. in 1872. 
He studied with the late Mr. Justice Fisher 
when at the bar, and was afterward for 
si.\ years in partnership with the late Mr. 
Justice Wetmore. He has been president 
of the Barristers' Society of New Brunswick 
and of the St. John Law Society, and was for 
several years a member of the Council of 
each of these societies. He is also a member 
of St. George's Society, of which he was presi- 
dent for two years, and is president of the St. 
John Bridge and Railway Extension Company. 
In politics Judge Barker was an active Con- 
servative. He was Representative in the House 
of Commons for the city of St. John, having 
succeeded Sir Leonard Tilley upon that gentle- 
man's appointment to the governorship of New 
Brunswick in 1885, but at the general elec- 
tions the following year was defeated. Judge 
Barker is a stanch member and supporter of 
the Church of England, and is a warden of 
St. Paul's Church in St. John. He was one 
of the commissioners appointed by the govern- 
ment of New Brunswick in 1875 to consolidate 
the statutes, and a member of the Law Com- 
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government. In 1893 he was appointed to the 
office he has since so ably filled, that of a 
Judge of the Supreme Court. In 1896 he was 
appointed Administrator of the Government 
of New Brunswick during the absence on leave 
of the late Lieutenant-governor Fraser. 

Judge Barker has been twice married. His 
first wife, whom he married in 1865, was 
Julia, daughter of Edward Lloyd, the latter at 
that time a member of the Royal Engineers' 
Civil Staff stationed at St. John. By this 
union there were two daughters and one son. 
The son, who graduated at the Royal Military 
College at Kingston, is now a Captain in the 
Royal Artillery and stationed in Malta. 
Judge Barker married second, Mary Ann, 
daughter of the late B. A. Black, of Halifax, 
N. S. There arc two daughters by this union. 



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OBERT MURRAY, barrister-at-law, 
Chatham, N. B. , was born in this place 



in 1855, son of Robert and Jane 
(Wright) Murray. 

Robert Murray, the elder, was born in 
Annan, Scotland, in 18 16. He was a small 
boy at the time of the death of his father, 
John Murray, and was about nine years of age 
when he came to America with his mother's 
family. He landed at Richibucto, X. B., and 
thence proceeded to Pictou, N. S., where he 
was apprenticed to learn the tanner's and cur- 
rier's trade. Subsequently, in 1838, he en- 
tered a mill in Miramichi, N.B., and learned 
the trade of millwright. This occupation he 
followed until 1S75, and in that period he pur- 



chased a tract of land which he made into a 
fine farm. During his remaining years he 
devoted himself to farming, in which he was 
most successful. His death in 1897 was the 
result of a fall. His wife, Jane, was a native 
of Belfast, Ireland. She was a daughter of 
William Wright, who came to this country 
about 1824. Robert, Sr. , and Jane Murray 
were the parents of seven children, as follows : 
Joseph Herbert, Elizabeth J., John, Henri- 
etta, Robert, Catherine, and Margaret Amanda. 
Joseph Herbert died in 1865, at twenty-one 
years of age. Elizabeth J. married John Eng- 
land, a shipwright of Chatham, now resident 
in Indianapolis, Ind. John was killed by the 
premature explosion of a canon while engaged, 
as a member of the Chatham Garrison Battery, 
in firing a salute to Lord Dufferin in July, 1873. 
He was twenty-four years old. Henrietta is 
the wife of William Johnston, Town Treasurer 
of Chatham. Catherine died at seven years of 
age, and Margaret Amanda died at five. The 
mother of these children died on February 9, 
1898, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. 
Robert Murray, Sr. , was a member of the 
Mechanics' Institute. 

Robert Murray, the subject of this sketch, 
was educated at the Presbyterian Academy of 
Chatham, under the tutorship of William 
Crockett, late Superintendent of Education of 
New Brunswick. In 1878 he entered the law 
office of Andrew H. Johnson, and on February 
15, 1882, was admitted attorney, and in April, 
1883, barrister. He began the practice of his 
profession in tliis town in the following March, 
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titioner. On March 14, 1887, he was ap- 
pointed Police Magistrate of Chatham; and 
this office he held until 1S92, when he re- 
signed. In the fall of 1891 he was elected 
Councillor to represent the parish of Chatham 
on the Municipal Board of the county. After 
holding this office for two years, he declined 
another nomination. Since 1886 he has been 
Referee in Equity. In 1892 he was employed 
by the county as prosecutor for the Scott Act. 

Mr. Murray is connected with various frater- 
nal societies. He is a Past Master of Mira- 
michi Lodge, F. & A. M., and Secretary of 
Mount Lebanon Chapter, R. A. M. He be- 
longs also to the I. O. F., of which he is 
Past Chief Ranger, and to the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen. He is a member of 
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, and si)igs 
in its choir. 

Mr. Murray was married in 1889 to Jane 
Simpson, daughter of Simon Simpson, of Neg- 
uac, N. B. Three children have been born of 
this union — Nina Helen, Vera Alice, and 
Robert Blaine. Mr. Murray is Major and 
Quartermaster of the Seventy-third Battalion 
of Infantry. In politics he is a Liberal. He 
is secretary of the Northumberland County 
Liberal Association. 



f^yURD PETERS, City Engineer of St. 
John, was born in P'redericton, N.B., 
August 28, 1830, son of the Hon. 
Charles Jeffrey and Mary Ann Elizabeth 
(Forbes) Peters. It is said that the first 
American ancestor of this family of whom 



there is any authentic knowledge was Charles 
Peters, who was registered as a physician in 
New York in 1703. Valentine Hewlet Peters, 
the great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was a native of Long Island. His son, 
James Peters, who was also born there, was 
a Royalist; and after the close of the Ameri- 
can Revolution he came to New Brunswick 
with his seven children, arriving at St. John 
May 18, 1783. He was one of the fifty-five 
commissioners appointed for the allotment of 
land offered by the crown to those who pre- 
ferred to leave the newly organized republic 
and accept the offer of homes in this Province. 
After carrying on mercantile business in St. 
John for a time, he removed to Gagetown, 
where he settled on an estate, and was subse- 
quently appointed Judge of the Inferior Court 
of Common Pleas. James Peters married 
Margaret Lester, a native of Long Island. 
She died in 1825. 

Charles Jeffrey Peters, Hurd Peters's father, 
son of James and Margaret, was born in Hamp- 
stead, Queens County, N. Y. , in October, 1773, 
and was in his tenth year when he accompanied 
his parents to St. John. Pie studied law with 
Ward Chipman, the elder, before Mr. Chip- 
man's elevation to the bench of the Supreme 
Court, and at the age of eighteen began the 
practice of his profession in Kingston, Ont. 
Returning to St. John, he was appointed Com- 
mon Clerk, an office which he held for twenty- 
four years, and was succeeded by his son James, 
who retained it for the same length of time; 
and after him his nephew, B. Lester Peter.s, 
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Solicitor-General of the Province, and in 1S30 
was elevated to the position of Attorney-Gen- 
eral, in which capacity he served with ability 
for the rest of his life. On two ocasions he 
declined to accept a seat upon the Supreme 
Bench. He died in February, 184S. His 
first wife, whom he married in Kingston, was 
a daughter of Captain Baker of the British 
army. For his second wife he married Mary 
Ann Elizabeth Forbes, who was born in Eng- 
land, daughter of George Anthony Forbes, 
Surgeon General of the British forces in the 
West Indies. She died in 1866. The Hon. 
Charles Jeffrey Peters was the father of twenty- 
one children, twelve by his first marriage and 
nine by his second ; and Hurd, the subject of 
this sketch, was the seventeenth-born. 

Hurd Peters was awarded a silver medal 
upon the completion of his course at the Col- 
legiate School ; and he won a gold medal for 
e.xtraordinary proficiency in his studies at 
King's College, now the University of New 
Brunswick, from which he graduated as a 
]5achelor of Arts, and subsequently received 
the degree of Master of Arts. He was also 
awarded a diploma by the college at the 
conclusion of the special course in engineer- 
ing under Mr. Cregan, C.E. He was em- 
ployed as leveller in constructing the European 
and North American Railway from St. John 
to Vanceboro and on what is now the Inter- 
colonial Railway between St. John and Monc- 
ton. In i<S54 he formed a partnership with 
the late J. lulward Boyd, M.I. C.E. , with whom, 
under the firm name of Peters & Boyd, he 
carried on business in St. John until Mr. 



Boyd accepted a position on the government 
railways. Mr. Peters then continued to con- 
duct the work of their office until appointed 
City Surveyor, in April, 1861. In July, 1863, 
the office of City Engineer was established; 
and, being reappointed under that title, he has 
held the position continuously to the present 
time. He has acquired a high reputation for 
professional ability, and the present condition 
of the city streets and highways fully attests 
the faithful discharge of his duties. 

In i860 Mr. Peters married Emily Mary 
Haire, daughter of Dr. Haire, formerly of 
Newfoundland and later of Cape Breton, where 
she was born. Of this union there were five 
children, three of whom died in infancy and 
two are living; namely, Florence Le Fevre 
and Ralph Dowling Peters. 

The disastrous fire which visited St. John 
in 1877 destroyed Mr. Peters's residence and 
office, with all his plans, memoranda, and so 
forth. He was one of the incorporators and 
a member of the First Council of the Canadian 
Society of Civil Engineers. He was formerl)' 
quite active in military affairs, and retired 
with the rank of Eieutenant Colonel of the 
Second Battalion, St. John County Militia. 
He has also held offices of trust in connection 
with the Church of England, of which he is 
a devoted member. 



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T^HAREES F. WOODMAN, of the 
firm of Miller & Woodman, the well- 



\^^ 



known lumber manufacturers of St. 
John, was born in York County, Maine, in 




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1833, son of Sewell and Ann (Eaiie) Wood- 
man, both of his parents being natives of 
Maine and of Puritan ancestry. 

Mr. Woodman, as a boy, learned the various 
processes of lumber manufacturing, in which 
his father was extensively engaged ; and it is 
but natural that he should have devoted his 
working life to this activity. On March 5, 
1 866, he came to St. John, and here, in com- 
pany with Mr. Miller, organized the firm of 
Miller & Woodman. The mills previously 
operated by Messrs. Mason & Vincent at Rob- 
ertson's Point were purchased; and the firm 
at once began the manufacture of sugar boxes, 
which were shipped to the West India Islands. 
Later they cut spruce lumber. At the present 
time they carry on one of the largest lumber 
manufacturing concerns in New Brunswick, 
annually cutting twenty million feet of spruce 
lumber and thirty-five million shingles. Their 
reputation for business enterprise is equalled 
only by their reputation for business integrity, 
and the product of their mill is known to be 
always exactly as represented. 

Mr. Woodman was married in 1883 to Mary 
Nase, a daughter of Philip Nase, who for many 
years was a prominent merchant in Indian- 
town. Mr. Woodman's success as a business 
man has won recognition in financial circles; 
and some time since he was asked to serve as 
a director of the Bank of New Brunswick, 
which is one of the most conservative and at 
the same time one of the most prosperous finan- 
cial institutions in the Province. Mr. and 
Mrs. Woodman attend St. Luke's Episcopal 
Church. 




AMUEL THOMSON, O.C, of 
Newcastle, the oldest practising 
barrister in the province, was born 
at Chatham, N. B. , October 17, 1825, son of 
the Rev. James and Catherine (M'Kay) Thom- 
son. His father, who was of the Secession 
Church of Scotland, was the first permanently 
settled Presbyterian minister in New Bruns- 
wick, and the founder of St. Andrew's Church, 
Chatham. Coming from Dumfries, Scotland, 
in 1 8 16, he labored faithfully until his prema- 
ture decease in 1830. Mr. Thomson's mother, 
who also was a native of Scotland, died in 1858. 

Samuel Thomson, after receivine; a eram- 
mar-school education, studied law with John 
Ambrose Street and George Kerr. Admitted 
an attorney in 1S46 and called to the bar in 
1848, he has been in the practice of his pro- 
fession for fifty-two years, for two or three 
in partnership with Mr. Kerr and since that 
time alone. His practice has extended to 
all the courts of the province. He is Judge 
of Probate, Clerk of the County Court, Clerk 
of the Peace, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
county, and Clerk of the Circuits. He re- 
sided in Chatham until 1858, when, on his 
appointment as Clerk of the Peace, he removed 
to Newcastle. 

Judge Thomson was married in 1859 to Miss 
Jane McCurdy, of Truro, N. S., a daughter of 
Isaac and Nancy (Blanchard) McCurdy. They 
have eight children, five daughters and three 
sons, all of whom are now living; namely, 
Anna G., p:iiza I., Alma K., Adelaide, Jean, 
Charles ]., PZdward B., and George K. 
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Judge Thomson has throughout his career 
eschewed politics. His religious affiliations 
are with the Presbyterian church. He is one 
of the oldest members of Northumberland 
Lodge, F. & A. M. 




iLEMENT PECKHAM CLARKE, the 
oldest established druggist in St. John, 
was born in that city, March 15, 
1836, eldest son of John and Susannah (Parlee) 
Clarke. He is a great-grandson of James 
Clarke, a Loyalist, who married Elizabeth 
Peckham, and with his wife and family came 
to New Brunswick in 1783. 

James Clarke's son, John Clarke, Sr. , grand- 
father of Clement P., was born in Newport, 
R.L, May 31, 1760. On coming to St. John, 
he established himself in the baking business, 
for many years supplying His Majesty's troops, 
and being very successful. His residence, 
which was at the corner of Main (now Broad) 
and Sydney Streets, was destroyed in the great 
fire of 1877. He was for fifty years parish 
clerk of Trinity Church, St. John parish; and 
at his death a monument was erected to his 
memory by the corporation of the church. 
He was married October 19, 1785, to Anna 
Peck, who was born October 6, 1767. Their 
children were: Jane, who became Mrs. Treph- 
ager; James; Isaac; Frances, who became 
Mrs. Thomas Reed; Mary Elizabeth; Esther; 
John, father of the subject of this sketch ; 
Ann, who became Mrs. James Crawford; and 
Augusta, who was the wife of D. A. Cameron. 
Frances, Mary, and Eliza lost their lives in 



the fire of 1S77. After the death of his first 
wife John Clarke, Sr. , married Jane Majori- 
banks, who died in 1840. He died in St. 
John, November 30, 1853. 

John Clarke, son of the above, reached man- 
hood and received his education in St. John. 
A baker by occupation, like his father, he was 
appointed Flour Inspector of St. John, which 
position he filled efficiently for many years. 
He married Susannah, daughter of Peter Parlee, 
of Sussex, N. B. She was born November 10, 
1814. Their children were: Clement Peck- 
ham, whose name begins this sketch ; Josephine 
Augusta, who is now deceased; Peter Parlee, 
who resides in Southbridge, Mass. ; Frances 
Hay ward; Oliver Goldsmith, who is now de- 
ceased; John Henry, who is associated in busi- 
ness with his brother, Clement P. ; and Arthur 
Brunswick, who is deceased. The father, John 
Clarke, died November 28, 1882. Flis wife 
died June i, 1899. 

Clement Peckham Clarke was brought up 
and educated in St. John, his native city. In 
1851 he began to learn the drug business; and 
in i860 he established his present business on 
King Street, where during the many years that 
have since elapsed he has carried on a lucrative 
trade, and by honest methods and courteous 
treatment of his patrons won the confidence of 
all who know him. He is a director of the 
Horticultural Society and a warden of Trinity 
Church. 

He married August 27, 1867, Amelia C. 
Oulton, daughter of T. li. Oulton, of West- 
morland Point, Westmorland, N. B. Mr. and 
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namely: Clement Walker, who is in his 
father's employ; Percy Arthur, who is en- 
gaged in the insurance business; Harry Edwin, 
who is in the employ of Schofield Brothers, 
dealers in paper; John Alfred, who is a com- 
mission merchant of St. John; and Edith M., 
wife of E. A. Schofield. 

Mr. Clarke occupies a prominent position 
among the leading business men of .St. John, 
and he and his family move in the best social 
circles of the city. 



"jCjDWARD CHARLES JONES, manager 
J CL of the Bank of Montreal at St. John 

and a citizen honored for his public spirit and 
many benevolences, was born at St. Ann's, 
near Montreal, on August 21, 1S35, son of 
Edward Thomas and Marietta Sophia Elizabeth 
(Forbes) Jones. His paternal grandfather, 
Thomas Jones, removed to Canada in 1783 with 
the United Empire Loyalists. He engaged in 
mercantile business, and was for many years 
a government in.spector. Edward Thomas 
Jones, who was a native of Bedford, Que. 
was a barrister by profession. His wife was 
a daughter of C. J. Forbes, Deputy Commis- 
sary General of the British Army. She bore 
him a family of four sons and one daughter. 

Edward Charles, the subject of this sketch, 
was the first-born of these. He was educated 
in the Upper Canada College at Toronto, and 
entered the employ of the Bank of Montreal 
in 1855. In 1867 he was transferred to Hali- 
fa.x, N. S. , as manager of the branch of the 
bank in that place. There he remained until 



1S74, when he was transferred to his present 
position as manager of the bank in St. John. 
This is the largest financial institution in the 
Province of New Brunswick, and requires 
a man at its head who is possessed of keen 
discrimination, great skill in finance, and 
sound judgment. Under Mr. Jones's manage- 
ment the St. John branch has increased the 
scope of its operations and met with enlarged 
prosperity. 

In 1 868 he married Mrs. Wilson, a native 
of Halifax. Of this union two children have 
been born, namely: Edward F., a rising bar- 
rister of St. John; and Eleanor Alison. Mr. 
Jones is a member of the St. George Society. 
Every progressive movement finds in him a 
warm champion, and his ear is never deaf to 
the appeals of charity. 



^AMES DUNCAN DICKINSON, the 
head of the firm of J. D. Dickinson & 
Sons, Woodstock, N. B. , was born in 
the parish of Wakefield, N. B. , January iS, 
1 82 5, son of John Dickinson. He is a grand- 
son of Darius Dickinson, a Loyalist, who re- 
moved from Long Island, N. Y. , to Frederic- 
ton, N. B. , and there subsequently followed his 
trade of a tailor throughout his active years. 

John Duncan was born in Fredericton. 
When his school days were over, he learned 
the tailor's trade from his father. After his 
father's death he went with his widowed 
mother and his brothers and sisters to the par- 
ish of Wakefield, where he engaged in farming 
and lumbering for a number of years. Having 



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the misfortune to cut his knee while in the 
woods, he became a cripple; and, being unable 
to continue lumbering, he again turned his at- 
tention to tailoring, a trade which he followed 
during his remaining years. He took quite an 
interest in military matters as a young man, 
and before receiving the injury to his knee 
was a Captain in the militia. He was a mem- 
ber of the Free Will Baptist Church. He 
married Mrs. Sarah Robinson, a daughter of 
Richard Thomas, a Loyalist from Pennsylva- 
nia. They had four children, of whom two 
grew to years of maturity, namely : James 
Duncan, the subject of this sketch; and Mary 
Ann, who died at the age of twenty-four years. 
Mrs. Dickinson had four children by her first 
marriage, namely: Asa, deceased; George, de- 
ceased ; Reuben, deceased, formerly of the 
parish of Brighton, N. B. ; and Sarah, wife of 
William Richardson, also of Brighton. 

James Duncan Dickinson was educated in 
the public schools of the parish of Brighton 
and of the village of Wakefield. He then 
went to learn the trade of a tanner at Victoria 
Corner; and after serving his apprenticeship 
he carried on his employer's business on shares 
for a year or two, and in 1850 built a tannery 
at Upper Woodstock. Four years later he 
sold out his plant, and, going West, resided 
in Dodge County, Wisconsin, a year, and then 
spent two years as hotel-keeper at Red Wing, 
Minn. Going thence to Minneapolis, Minn., 
he rented a tannery, which he operated two 
years. On the breaking out of the Civil War 
he listened to the urgent request of his father 
and returned home. Wishing to settle perma- 



nently in business, he formed a partnership 
with Samuel Parsons, and, purchasing his 
present tannery, established the firm of Parsons 
& Dickinson, which existed as such four years. 
Mr. Dickinson then purchased his partner's 
interest, and has since so managed his opera- 
tions that he has one of the most extensive 
tanneries in this section of Canada. He was 
sole member of the firm until 1889, when his 
second son was admitted into partnership and 
the name was changed to J. D. Dickinson & 
Son. In 1893 his youngest son was admitted 
to the firm, which has since been styled J. D. 
Dickinson & Sons. This enterprising firm, 
which handles about twenty-five thousand 
hides annually, employs an average number of 
eighteen men, and, in addition to manufactur- 
ing sole leather, makes a very fine quality of 
Spanish leather for the jobbing trade. 

Mr. Dickinson married for his first wife 
Clarissa, daughter of John Carney, of Jackson- 
ville, N. B. She bore him five children, 
namely : James Frederick ; Charles D. ; Anna, 
deceased; John F. ; and Eveline, deceased. 
His second wife, Sarah, the daughter of 
Eleazer Teland, has borne him one daughter, 
Alice L., wife of Woodbury Raymond, of 
Woodstock. Mr. Dickinson and his sons at- 
tend the Second Advent Church. 

James Frederick Dickinson, the eldest son, 
was born October 9, 185 i. After completing 
his education in the common schools of Wood- 
stock, he learned the tanner's trade with his 
father, and in i868 learned the shoemaker's 
trade. In 1875 '""^ went to Peabody, Mass. ; 
and, after there learning the trade of a morocco 



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dresser, he went to Lynn, Mass., where he was 
employed by General A. P. Martin, for whom 
he worked a year. Returning then to his 
father's tannery, he began finishing morocco 
skins, carr}'ing on this business in connection 
with the other manufactures of the tannery. 
He subsequently assumed the management of 
the shoe store which his father had opened, 
and, having since succeeded to its ownership, 
is now carrying on a successful business as 
a shoe dealer. He is a member of Carleton 
Lodge, No. 41, I. O. O. F. He married 
Frances E. , daughter of Stephen L. Parsons, 
of Woodstock, and they have two children — 
Arthur L. and Frank P. 

Charles D. Dickinson, the second son, born 
January i, 1S56, began work in his father's 
tannery as soo;i as he finished school, and in 
1S89 became a member of the firm. He mar- 
ried Sarah L., daughter of James E. Smith, 
of Clinton, Mass. They have six children 
now living; namely, Clara, Herbert E., Roy 
D., Helen L. , Florence, and Mary A. John 
F. Dickinson, the youngest son, born October 
II, 1863, was admitted into the firm in 1893, 
as before mentioned. He is also manasinsr 
director, while his brother, Charles D., is 
president, of the Maritime Wrapper Company, 
which employs from sixty to eighty hands in 
the manufacture of clothing for women. 



^JON. JAMES HOLLY, of St. John, 
N.B. , son of the late James Holly, 
Si-., of the parish of Burton, Sun- 
bury County, N. B., was born on October 24, 



1835. He was educated in the village school, 
and acquired in his youth the habits of indus- 
try and courtesy and the principles of integrity 
which have proved such valuable allies to him 
in his business career. His father and mother 
died when he was but a boy. At the age of 
twelve years he went to St. John and worked at 
the lumber business with his maternal grand- 
father, John S. Brown, being employed in sur- 
veying and delivering. Entering into partner- 
ship with David McLellan in May, 1S67, he 
carried on lumber business with him until Mr. 
McLellan's death in 1894. In 1895 the firm 
name was changed to James Holly & Son. 
Mr. Holly was a director of the South Bay 
Boom Company from 1876 to 1881, was presi- 
dent of the company four years, and in 1885 
became proprietor of the booms, having pur- 
chased the stock and plant. 

Mr. Holly is a Liberal in politics. He has 
always been warmly interested in all questions 
of public importance, and has taken an active 
part in public affairs. He was appointed in 
1883 a member of the Legislative Council of 
the Province of New Brunswick, and in 1887 
a member of the Provincial Board of Health. 
He joined St. John's Lodge, ¥. & A. M. , in 
1869, and for some time was an active member 
of the ancient craft, becoming a member of 
New Brunswick Royal Arch Chapter in 1S71, 
and later for two years holding the rank of 
Noble and Eminent Commander of Union De 
Molay Encampment, K. T. Li 1883 he was 
appointed by the National Great Priory of 
Canada to the office of Grand Sub-marshal. 

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Aramantha A., eldest daughter of the late 
Alexander Barnhill, Esq., of Lancaster, N.B. 
This union has been blessed by the birth of 
five children; namely, Jeannette A., Caroline, 
Alexander B., Henrietta, and Murray McL. 
Jeannette A. married Charles Swinerton, of 
Cambridge, Mass., and has one daughter, 
Abbie. Caroline married John Moore, of St. 
John, and has two children — Marian and 
John. Alexander B. , who is in company with 
his father in business, married Alice Moore, 
of St. John, and has one child, Louisa. 
Henrietta married George Flemming, of St. 
John, and has two children — May and Ger- 
trude. Mr. Holly and his family are members 
of the Church of England (St. Luke's). 



'jpimVARD CLARK RANDALL, M.D., 
J 3l an active practitioner of Hillsboro, 

N. B., has been established in this town the 
past ten years, and during the time has won 
an excellent reputation for professional knowl- 
edge and ability. He was born May i6, 185 i, 
in Illsford, N.S., a son of Christopher Randall. 
His great-grandfather, Elisha Randall, was 
born, reared, and married in Connecticut; but 
in I7S7 he left New England, probably for 
political reasons, and settled in Annapolis 
County, Nova Scotia, where he spent his re- 
maining days. The only further definite fact 
in regard to him is that he was a farmer. 

Samuel J. Randall, the Doctor's grandfather, 
was born in Connecticut; but from the age of 
five years until his death, when ninety-five 
years old, lie lived on a farm in Annapolis 



County, Nova Scotia. Of his union with a 
Miss Prince eleven children were born, of 
whom Christopher was the youngest. 

Christopher Randall was born February 5, 
1805, and spent his fourscore years of life on 
the old homestead in Nova Scotia, dying in 
November, 1885. He followed the indepen- 
dent occupation to which he was bred; and, in 
addition to cultivating the soil and raising 
stock, he owned and operated a saw-mill, car- 
rying on for many years an extensive business 
as a lumber manufacturer. He married Ma- 
tilda Gates, who was born in Nova Scotia in 
1812, a daughter of John Gates, and died in 
1 88 1. They became the parents of fourteen 
children, of whom nine are living, as follows: 
Sarah, widow of Alfred Trites, of Moncton, 
who has one child; Christiana, wife of Dr. 
Frank Oulton, of Dakota, who has two chil- 
dren — Edgar and Frank; Harriet, now the 
widow of Martin Black, who married for her 
first husband Allan Steeves, who died, leaving 
her one child, Edward O. Steeves; Ruth, wife 
of George Wilson, of I.utz Mountain, N.B. , 
who has three children — Wesley, Matilda, 
and Flarriet; Samuel, who married Eunice 
Horseman, and has four children — Leander, 
Levi, Linda, and Ilattie; Isabel, wife of Bryer 
Bent; Kimball, who married Laura Trites; 
Edward Clark, the subject of this brief sketch; 
George, who married I^Ila Foster; and Chris- 
tina, wife of John Carl. Both parents were 
active members of the Baptist church, in which 
the father served for a number of years as 
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education in Nova Scotia, and afterward en- 
tered the Medical University of New York 
City, from whicli he graduated in 1880. Com- 
ing at once to Hillsboro, he began the practice 
of his profession, in which he has been emi- 
nently successful, and is now recognized as one 
of the most skilful physicians of this locality. 
He is identified politically with the Liberal 
party, and is a member of the Baptist church. 

On December i, 1888, Dr. Randall niarried 
Miss Maggie McClutchy, of Hillsboro, and of 
their four children three are living; namely, 
Jessie, Mary, and James Edward. 




ILLIAM THOMSON, founder of the 
firm of William Thomson & Co., 
the well-known ship owners and agents of St. 
John, N. B., was born in Dumfries, Scotland, 
in 1816, son of John Thomson, who emigrated 
to New Brunswick in the brig "Jessie." John 
Thomson and his wife, Jessie, were the parents 
of fourteen children, seven of whom grew to 
maturity. In the old country John Thomson 
was a ship-owner; but upon coming to St. 
John he engaged in mercantile business on 
Water Street, which he subsequently continued 
until his death in 1841. 

William Thomson began his working life as 
clerk for Colonel J. V. Thurger in the liquor 
and tea business. In 1848 he engaged in 
business for himself as ship broker and com- 
mission merchant, and subsequently owned 
a number of sailing-vessels which he employed 
in the carrying trade between foreign coun- 
tries. Mr. Thomson was president of the Cen- 



tury Club of St. John, president of St. 
Andrew's Society, and during the American 
Civil War was treasurer of the relief fund. 
For some time he was Vice-Consul for Sweden 
and Norway. He was married in 1841 to 
Elizabeth Rachael Scoullar. She was born in 
St. John, N. B. , a daughter of James Scoullar, 
who came to this country from Scotland. Of 
the seven children born of this union three are 
living, namely: Robert; John Henderson; and 
Marion, wife of Allen O. Cruckshank. The 
deceased are: Annie Walker, who was the wife 
of James F. Robertson ; Alice Cameron, wife 
of Surgeon Wade, of the Seventy-eighth High- 
landers; George Greig, who died at twenty-one 
years of age ; and Andrew. 

In 1870 Mr. Thomson took into partnership 
with himself William C. Watson and his son, 
Robert Thomson. Six years later this copart- 
nership expired by limitation of time, where- 
upon Mr. Thomson formed a new partnership, 
including himself and his two sons, Robert 
and John. The firm name of William Thom- 
son & Co., which had been adopted in 1870, 
and under which the business has been con- 
ducted ever since, was retained. Upon the 
retirement of the elder Mr. Thomson in 1SS2, 
the management of affairs was assumed by the 
two sons, under whose direction it has since 
grown to even greater proportions. This firm 
has had built some fourteen ships and barques, 
three steel ships, and nine steel ocean steamers. 
Their vessels may be found in various ports 
all over the world. Their steamers constitute 
what is known as the "Battle Line," being 
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firm do a large amount of ship brokerage, and 
charter more than half of the large craft that 
load at the port of St. John. They are agents 
for the Allan Steamship Line, the North Ger- 
man Lloyd, the Hamburg-American, and the 
Head Line. 

In 1858 Mr. Thomson purchased fifteen 
acres of land on the old Westmorland road, 
and thereupon erected a beautiful residence 
which he called "Nithbank. " Here, until 
about five years previous to his death, he dis- 
pensed a generous hospitality, entertaining 
many persons of note, as well as his more 
intimate friends and business acquaintances. 
His death occurred at Asheville, N.C., on 
March 3, 1891, about five years subsequent to 
that of his wife. He is buried at Fern Hill 
Cemetery. Mr. Thomson was a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, and his church fellow- 
ship was with the Presbyterians. 

Robert Thomson, above named, was born on 
June 9, 1842. After leaving school at the age 
of seventeen, he went to Liverpool, England, 
and there entered the office of Duncan & Ken- 
dall as junior clerk. I^Ie remained there until 
the spring of 1862, when he returned to St. 
John and entered his father's office, where 
he continued as clerk until his admission 
as partner in the business. On October 
20, 1870, he was married to Louisa Anne, 
daughter of the Rev. William Donald, pas- 
tor of St. Andrew's Church. The four chil- 
dren born of this union are: \\'i]liam S., who 
died in 1872, Percy W. ; Mabel G. ; and 
Mona C. Mr. Thomson is Imperial German 



Consul. He is a director in the bank of New 
Brunswick. In religious faith he is a Presby- 
terian. 

John H. Thomson, junior partner in the firm 
of William Thomson & Co., was born in 1848. 
He married in 1877 Ella Violet, daughter of 
Wesley Thompson, and is the father of two 
children — John R. and Muriel. Mr. John H. 
Thomson is Vice-Cohsul to Norway and Sweden. 




ILLIAM F. HUMPHREY, a prom- 
inent and well-known manufacturer 
of Moncton, N. B., is a keen, progressive man 
of business, who since the death of his father, 
the late John A. Humphrey, has been at the 
head of one of the most extensive woollen fac- 
tories in the Maritime Provinces. He was born 
in Moncton, November 13, i860, and is of 
English ancestry. 

His great-grandfather, William Humphrey, 
Sr., a native of North Allerton, Yorkshire, 
England, emigrated in 1760, and for several 
years after coming to the Provinces was an en- 
gineer for the British government in Halifax, 
N. S. He subsequently removed to Falmouth, 
N. S., and there followed farming and lumber- 
ing until compelled by failing health to give 
up all manual labor. He reared quite a large 
family of children ; but his son, William, Jr., 
was the only one to marry. 

William Humphrey, Jr., was born and bred 
in b'almouth, N. S., and as a young man went to 
Maccan, Cumberland County, N.S., where he 
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of activity in lumbering, farming, and specu- 
lating in real estate. Energetic, far-seeing, 
and the possessor of much executive ability, he 
met with good success in all of his operations, 
and became a man of considerable prominence 
in the community. His last days were spent 
in Sackville, N. B. , where he died at the age 
of threescore and ten years. The only survivor 
of the six children born of his union with Mary 
Truman is Elizabeth. She is the wife of 
Edward R. Bishop, of Port William, N. S., by 
whom she has four children — Humphrey, 
Truman, Oscar, and Alice. Both the grand- 
parents were members of the RTethodist church. 

John A. Elumphrey, son of William Hum- 
phrey, Jr., was born December 24, 1823, at 
Maccan, N. S. Until he was about twenty- 
seven years old he lived principally with his 
father, having charge for the last four or five 
years of a branch of his father's business. 
He came to Moncton in 1850, and purchased 
the property which now bears his name. 

In 1882 Mr. John A. Humphrey, in partner- 
ship with the Messrs. Snow and his son, Will- 
iam F. Humphrey, commenced the manufacture 
of woollens. In 1884 the factory was still fur- 
ther enlarged, the power changed from water to 
steam, and, by means of other improvements 
added, its capacity was increased tenfold. 
Three years later, more room being required 
for their oijerations, the firm again enlarged its 
plant, doubling its capacity, and, after adding 
the latest improved machinery, had the most 
complete and best equipped tAvo-set mills in 
Canada. In 1888 the Messrs. Humphrey pur- 
chased the interest of their partners in the 



concern, and under the firm name of J. A. 
Elumphrey & Son continued the manufacture 
of tweeds, unions, flannels, homespun, and 
yarns, using principally domestic wool or 
yarns. The plant has since been increased in 
size and capacity; and, as a larger force has 
been employed in each of its departments, 
quite a village has grown up in the district, 
which is but three miles from the centre of 
Moncton. The senior partner also owned and 
operated a grist-mill and a saw-mill in that 
locality, in these employing a large number 
of hands. Very active and progressive, he was 
the prime mover in the establishment of 
many other business organizations, and for sev- 
eral years was vice-president of the Moncton 
Water and Gas Works and the Moncton Cotton 
Factory, and was a director and vice-president 
in the Sugar Refining Company. Pie also 



served a number of terms in tlie P 



incial 



Parliament. His death at the age of seventy- 
two years deprived Moncton of one of its most 
esteemed and valued citizens. He married 
Jane, daughter of M. S. Harris, of Moncton, 
where she still resides. They reared four 
children, namely: Sarah, who is the wife of 
L. D. Lockhart, of Moncton, and has two chil- 
dren — Humphrey and Mary ; Jane, unmarried; 
William l\, the subject of this sketch; and 
Mary, unmarried. 

William F. Humphrey was educated at 
Mount Allison University, Sackville, N. B. ; 
and very soon after leaving school, in 18S2, as 
above stated, he entered into business with his 
father, whose death terminated the partnership. 
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alone the various enterprises in which he and 
liis father were interested, and has the entire 
control of all the milling plants, including the 
woollen factory, the saw-mill, and the grist- 
mill. Having inherited in a large measure 
the practical ability and force of character that 
distinguished his father, he has met with signal 
success as a manager, and occupies a firm posi- 
tion among the leading citizens of the city. 
He is a Conservative in politics, and in iSgg 
was elected to the Provincial Parliament. He 
is a member of Keith Lodge, ¥. & A. M., of 
Moncton, and an adherent of the Methodist 
church. 

Mr. tlumphrey and J5essie E., daughter of 
Warren Wallace, of Moncton, were married in 
April, 1S85; and they have four children — 
William M., Bessie, J. Albert, and Catherine. 



|i^|EV. JOHN PRINCE, a venerable and 
highly respected citizen of Moncton, 
Westmorland County, N.B. , was 
for many years one of the leading ministers of 
the Methodist denomination, and was very ac- 
tive in advancing the religious interests of the 
Provinces. On account of physical infirmi- 
ties, he has not been settled over any parish 
for the past twenty years, but has resided as a 
supernumerary divine in Moncton, the town in 
which he was born on June i i, 1820. 

He is of excellent English ancestry, being a 
direct descendant in the eighth generation of 
the Rev. John Prince, an Oxford graduate, 
who in tlie early part of the seventeenth cen- 
tury was rector of the church in East Stafford, 



Berkshire County, England, and who married 
the daughter of Dr. Tolberry, a man of much 
prominence. The Rector and his wife reared 
four sons, the eldest of whom, John Prince, 
Jr., after concluding his studies at O.xford 
University, emigrated to Massachusetts about 
1633, and became the Elder of the church at 
Hull, where he died in 1676. His descend- 
ants are numerous. 

Isaac Prince, born in 1654, son of Elder 
John Prince, of Hull, was the father of Joseph, 
born in 1694, who married for his second wife 
Mary Townsend, and had a son Joseph, born in 
Boston in 1723. 

This second Josepli, known as the Rev. Jo- 
seph Prince, the blind preacher, was the great- 
grandfather of the Rev. John Prince, of Monc- 
ton. His loss of sight was the result of a 
serious illness which afflicted him at the age 
of sixteen years. He was of a religious tem- 
perament; and he became a noted preacher, 
and spent a large part of his life in Newbury- 
port, Mass., where his death occurred in 1791. 
By his union with Sarah Carpenter he became 
the father of twelve s(.>ns and one daughter. 
His son Thomas was the next in the line of 
descent now being traced. 

Thomas Prince settled as a farmer in North 
Yarmouth, Me., and there resided throughout 
his active years. On retiring from agricult- 
ural pursuits he remo\'ed to Belfast, j\le., 
where his last days were spent. He married 
Hannah Prince, a cousin three times removed; 
and of their six children the second, Thomas, 
Jr., was the father of the Re\-. John Prince, of 
Moncton. 




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Thomas Prince, Jr., was born in North Yar- 
mouth, Me., in 17S4, and there grew to man's 
estate. In 18 14 he came to New Brunswick 
to continue his business as a lumber manufact- 
urer and dealer, rightly thinking so heavily 
timbered a country a fine place for his opera- 
tions. Possessing much natural enterprise 
and ability, he succeeded in his undertakings, 
and in 181 8 further increased his business by 
operating in adjacent counties. For some 
time he was also one of the largest general 
merchants of this section of the province. 
This line of business he necessarily carried on 
to some extent by bartering, taking agricult- 
ural products from the farmers in exchange for 
merchandise. He subseciuently met with 
heavy losses, but until the day of his death 
was enabled to pay one hundred cents on the 
dollar, a great comfort and satisfaction to one 
of his sterling integrity. A man of strictly 
temperate habits, he took an active part in the 
early movements of reform, and in 1831, dur- 
ing the great temperance agitation, threw out 
all intoxicants that he had in stock and dis- 
continued forever the sale of liquor. Soon 
after the organization of the First Baptist 
Church at "the Bend" in 1828, he united 
with it, and was shortly chosen Deacon, an 
office which he filled until the close of his life, 
on November 20, 1851. He was held in the 
highest esteem as a man and as a citizen; and 
at his funeral, which was attended by a large 
number of sorrowing friends, the ministers of 
the different denominations in the community 
at their own request acted as pall-bearers. 
His first wife, Marion Steeves, died young, 



leaving three children, none of whom survive. 
By his second wife, Sarah Lewis, he had nine 
children, of whom these three are living: 
William L., John, and James. 

The Rev. John Prince acquired his element- 
ary education in Moncton, and studied for the 
niinistr}' inicler the instruction of the Rev. 
W. Wilson. He also attended the ISaptist 
Seminary at Fredericton, then under the charge 
of the Rev. Frederick Miles and the Rev. 
Charles Tupper. In 1846, while yet the 
British Conference controlled the Methodist 
affairs of these Provinces, he was appointed to 
the Pownal Circuit, Prince Edward Island, and 
after a probation of four years was ordained as 
a Wesleyan minister in the old Centenary 
Church at St. John, N. B. Since that time he 
has had charge of some of the most important 
circuits in the Provinces, including those of 
St. John's and Carbonear, Newfoundland. In 
1874 Mr. Prijice had the honor of being chosen 
as a delegate to the first General Conference 
held in the Metropolitan Church, Toronto, 
under the presidency of the late Rev. l^gerton 
Ryerson, D. D. He was afterward chairman 
of the District Conference, and then served as 
financial secretary of the Conference of New 
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, of 
which he was elected president in 1877. In 
1879 he ^^38 forced through ill health to retire 
from active pastoral work; but his influence 
for good as an upright, honest man and a true 
Christian abides in the community in which he 
resides, and extends far out into the world 
around him. 

In 1850 Mr. Prince married Ann J., daugh- 



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ter of the late Thomas Embree, of Amherst, 
N. S. She died May 8, 1889, leaving two 
daughters — Harriet A. and Sarah E., twins. 
The former is the wife of George H. Barnes, 
of Sussex Vale, N. B. ; and the latter married 
John VV. Hickman, a well-known barrister of 
Amherst, N. S. Mr. Prince subsequently mar- 
ried Mrs. Cynthia Wood, widow of the late 
Mariner Wood, of Sackville, N. B., father of 
Senator Wood, of Sackville. 

Mr. Prince is an uncle of Professor Simon 
Newcomb, of Washington, U.C. , the world- 
famous astronomer, for some time superintend- 
ent of the United States Nautical Almanac, 
whose daughter, Anita McGee, M.D., is the 
wife of Professor McGee, one of the leading- 
scientists in the United States, occupying a 
high position on the government geological 
staff. Mrs. McGee, who is a lady of high 
scientific and professional attainments, was the 
first woman ajopointed on the medical staff of 
the United States Navy, and is now in charge 
of the medical staff connected with the Naval 
Nurse Service of the United States. 



IZEKIEL BARLOW KETCH UM, sec- 
retary and manager of the Lawton 
Saw Company of St. John and a highly re- 
spected citizen of that place, was l:)orn there 
on March 14, 183 1, his parents being lulwin 
and Margaret A. (Lcavitt) Ketchum. He is 
a great-grandson of Jonathan Ketchum, one of 
the English Loyalists who came to New 
Brunswick in 1783. His grandfather Isaac 
resided in Hampton, Kings County; and there 



Edwin Ketchum, his father, was born in 
1806. 

Edwin Ketchum passed his early boyhood 
in Kings County, but before reaching man- 
hood came to St. John and entered the employ 
of li. Barlow & Sons. Of this firm he subse- 
quently became a partner, the name of the firm 
then becoming Barlow & Ketchum. They did 
a successful mercantile business for several 
years. Mr. Edwin Ketchum was associated 
subsequently with Thomas Leavitt, under the 
firm name of Thomas Leavitt & Co., and later 
with Mr. Charles Adams, firm name Adams 
& Ketchum, in the shipping and trading busi- 
ness with the West Indies and in the building 
of ships. After Mr. Adams's death he con- 
tinued the business with great success until a 
short time previous to his own death. He 
and his wife were the parents of the following- 
named six children who grew to maturity- — 
Ezekiel Barlow, Francis Edwin, Jane, Mar- 
garet, Charlotte, and James. A daughter, 
Julia, died in infancy, and Francis Edwin 
died in California in 1S81. Jane married first 
John McArthur, and for her second husband 
a Mr. Brown. She now resides in San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. Margaret is the wife of John H. 
Parks. Charlotte is the wife of Dr. J. E. 
Griffith, of Boston. James died of cholera 
during the epidemic of 1854. Mr. Edwin 
Ketchum served in the militia in the African 
corps as a commissioned officer. His death 
occurred in September, 185 1. His wife sur- 
vived him nearly thirty years, and died in 
March, 1S81. 

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faring life by listing as apprentice with John 
Wishart on a trip to London. He subse- 
quently sailed round the North Atlantic and 
as far south as the West Indies, being en- 
gaged in trade with the islanders; and in 1850 
he became master of the "Roscoe, " which 
sailed to Liverpool. In 1854, after about 
eight years spent on the water, he settled in 
St. John and opened a general business. 
Going four years later to the Albert Mine, 
Albert County, New Brunswick, he took 
charge of the books and of shipping the coal, 
and in 1876 was promoted to be manager of 
the mine. In iS8r, the mine having worked 
out, Mr. Ketchum returned to St. John, and 
began working in the cotton-mills at Courtenay 
Bay. Five years later he engaged in the lime 
business on the Narrows, .St. John River. 
Abandoning that enterprise some three years 
later, he was appointed liquidator for the 
Provincial Building Society, in which capac- 
ity he wound up the business of the society. 
Subsequent to that and since 1892 he has 
been engaged in his present position as sec- 
retary and manager of the Lawton Saw Com- 
pany. While at Hillsboro, Albert County, 
N.B. , he was interested to sonie extent in 
ship-building. 

Mr. Ketchum was married in 1855 to Miss 
Annie Guthrie Barr, a native of St. John and 
a daughter of William Barr, merchant, her 
father being of Scotch ancestry. Of the six- 
children born of this union three reached ma- 
turity, namely: Francis Edwin, who is at 
present employed in the postal service of the 
Dominion; Margaret Annie, the wife of 



Archer C. Puddington, of New York; and 
Alice, who resides with her parents. 




ILLIAM E. RAYMOND, one of 
the proprietors of the Royal Hotel, 
St. John, was born in Hampton, N. B. , March 
27, 1850, son of James Woolsey and Frances 
Elizabeth (de Mill) Raymond. He is a de- 
scendant of Lo^'alists on both sides; and the 
first of his paternal ancestry to settle in New 
Brunswick was his great-grandfather. Stent 
Ra3'mond, son of James and Jemima Ray- 
mond. Stent Raymond left Darien, Conn., 
in 1784, accompanied by his brothers. White 
and Thomas, and his cousin, Samuel Rice 
Raymond. He finally settled upon a farm in 
Hampton, N.B, where he resided for the rest 
of his life, and died in 1828. His children 
were: James; Charlotte, who married John 
McCready, Esq. ; Mary, who married for her 
first husband James Smith and for her second 
Moses Ennis; Henry, who died young; Eliz- 
abeth, who married John Patterson; Hannah, 
who married Ralph Colpitt; Sarah, who mar- 
ried George Gorham ; Frances, who became 
the wife of Humbert Fowler, and died in 
1885, aged nearly eighty-six years; and 
Charles, who was born July 10, 1805. 

James Raymond, son of Stent, was the sec- 
ond child born in St. John. He was reared 
in Hampton, and the active period of his life 
was spent in general farming. He was four 
times married, and by his union with Deborah 
Morell, his first wife, he had one child. His 
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Fowler, bore him eight children. His third 
■wife, who was before marriage Tamer 
Springer, died without issue. (Name of fourth 
not given.) One of his sons, James Wool- 
sey, father of William E. , died in 1S93. 
Thomas F. was formerly proprietor of the 
Royal Hotel, St. John. Another son, 
Thompson Raymond, died in Toronto, Ont. 

James Woolsey Raymond turned his atten- 
tion to agricultural pursuits at an early age, 
and spent his active life as a tiller of the soil. 
He married a daughter of Thomas dc Mill, 
whose ancestors came to New Brunswick after 
the close of the American Revolution. She 
became the mother of six children, namely: 
James T. and John S. , who are no longer liv- 
ing; William E. , the subject of this sketch; 
George, who resides in Hampton; Woolsey, 
deceased; and Eliza H., wife of D. McL. 
Smith. 

William li. Raymond attended the superior 
schools in his boyhood, and completed his ed- 
ucation with a business course at Kerr's Com- 
mercial College. He was engaged in farming 
until 1879, when he came to St. John, where 
he has since been identified with the Royal 
Hotel. After the death of his uncle, Thomas 
F. Raymond, which occurred in 1S93, he and 
Mr. Doherty became proprietors of the estab- 
lishment which is now the leading hotel in 
the Province, and stands high in the estima- 
tion of the travelling public. 

In 1885 Mr. Raymond was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Annie Smith, daughter of 
William M. .Smith, who was born in Ireland, 
and emigrated with ills jiarents when young. 



William M. Smith was a mechanical engi- 
neer, and for many years acted as Steamboat 
Inspector at this port. Mrs. Raymond is the 
mother of four children; namely, William 
Woolsey, Harold Newnham, Lillie Smith, and 
Thomas Kenneth Raymond. 

Mr. Raymond has advanced in Masonry to 
the commandery, and also belongs to the 
Order of Foresters. 



]C|DWARD WILLISTON, for many years 

J one of the best known and most 

prominent residents of Newcastle and Judge 
of County Courts of Restigouche, Gloucester, 
and Northumberland, was born in Bay du Vin, 
parish of Glewell (now Hardwick), N. B., in 
October, 1812. He was a son of John Bailey 
Williston and Phoebe Stymest Williston, his 
father being a native of Rhode Island, who 
came to New Brunswick with the Loyalists in 
1783, and settled at what is now known as 
Hardwick. He was educated at Newcastle 
under the tutorship of John Smith, and subse- 
quently studied law with John Ambroise 
Street, of that place. He was an attorney in 
1835, became a barrister in 1837, and entered 
upon the practice of his profession in New- 
castle. A man of recognized abilit)'', he was 
appointed Clerk of the Peace, and was also 
Postmaster for some time. In 1854, owing to 
the change of government, he was dismissed 
from office, and Mr. Richard Sutton was ap- 
pointed Deputy Treasurer for the county of 
Northumberland. The latter, standing for 
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Williston. Appointed Judge in 1867, Mr. 
Williston served until May, iSSi, when he 
resigned. During the government that 
brought about confederation he was made So- 
licitor General, and was returned at every 
election consecutively from 1854 to 1867. 
His death took place in July, 1889. He 
was a member of the Masonic order. 

Mr. Williston was married in 1845 to 
Miss Sarah Jane Mignowitz, a native of Hali- 
fax, N.S., and a daughter of Henry and Sarah 
Mignowitz. By this marriage there were 
twelve children, of whom eleven survive; 
namely, limma J., Elizabeth S., Emily Phebe, 
Henry M., Edward P., Charles, Frank S., 
Hedley V., Thomas A., lilizabeth W., and 
Howard. The other child, Alice May, was 
drowned at the age of seventeen yoars. The 
mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Williston, is still liv- 
ing, and retains her mental and physical vigor 
to a remarkable degree. 



]C|DWARD P. WILLISTON, son of Ed- 

Jl ward and Sarah J. (Mignowitz) 

Williston, was born in Newcastle, N.B., Oc- 
tober 24, 1852. He received his general 
education at the Collegiate School in Fred- 
ericton and the L'niversity of New Bruns- 
wick, and subsequently studied law with 
Samuel Thomson, of Newcastle, and with 
David S. Kerr, of St. John, for two years. 
He was admitted as attorney in June, 1S75, 
and as barrister in 1876. Beginning prac- 
tice in Newca.stle, he has since conducted a 
good business there, having occupied his 



present office from the first, a period of nearly 
twenty-five years. He has been County 
Auditor since 1876, and has served on the 
School Board since 1895. 

Mr. Williston was married October 4, 
18S1, to Miss Elizabeth Brander, a daughter 
of the late John Brander, a native of Scot- 
land, who came to New Brunswick about 
1S33. Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Williston 
are the j^arents of two children — John and 
May. Mr. Williston is a member of the 
Sons of Temperance. 




\C/^/lLLIAM WILSON, the popular 
Postmaster of Chatham, N. Jl, was 
born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1848, his par- 
ents being Alexander and Mary (Gray) Wil- 
son. His father, who was a member of the 
Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company, died 
when William was only eight years old. 
His mother survived, and some years later 
came to this country, where she remained 
until her death. She was a sister of the late 
-Senator Muirhead's wife. 

Mr. Wilson remained in his native land 
until he was eighteen years of age, and was 
educated at Gordon College in Aberdeen. At 
the age of eighteen he came to New Bruns- 
wick, and entered the employ of his uncle, 
William Muirhead, of Chatham, with whom 
he remained for the ne.\t nine years. At the 
end of that time he engaged in mercantile 
business for himself, under the firm name of 
William Wilson & Co., conducting a green- 
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tinued to carry on until July, 1897, when he 
assumed the duties of his present position. 
His administration as Postmaster has given 
universal satisfaction. The patrons of the 
office have found him prompt, reliable, and 
unfailingly courteous, and the mail service 
has in many ways been rendered more efficient 
and of greater value to the business com- 
munity. 

Mr. Wilson is a member of the Presby- 
terian church and a generous contributor to its 
many benevolent and religious enterprises. 
He was married in 1,884 to Miss Mary Johns- 
ton, daughter of William Johnston, of 
Chatham. Three children have blessed this 
union; namely, Agnes, Vera, and Norman. 



KEONARD B. KNIGHT, a member of 
the firm of J. & L. B. Knight, lumber 
■"^^ manufacturers and dealers of St. 
John, was born at St. George, N.B., in 1858, 
son of Justice Edward and Hannah S. (Brooks) 
Knight. 

His early ancestors in America were 
Pennsylvania Quakers. His paternal grand- 
father, Joshua Knight, born in Philadelphia, 
Pa., in 179s, was a son of Joshua and Jane 
(Vernon) Knight, lx)th natives of l^hiladel- 
phia and members of the Society of I'riends. 
It is related of the Joshua Knight last men- 
tioned that during the Revolutionary War 
two British soldiers came to his house when 
he was away and requested shelter, as they 
were pursued by Colonial troops. Mrs. 
Knight showed them the way to the attic. 



where they hid themselves. A little later 
Mr. Knight returned, and, before his wife had 
had an opportunity of acquainting him with 
the fact of the soldiers being concealed in the 
house, there was a knock at the door. Open- 
ing it, he found a squad of Colonial troops who 
demanded the English soldiers who had taken 
refuge there. Mr. Knight replied that there 
were none within, but, the Americans insist- 
ing upon a search of the house, the soldiers 
were found, and Mr. Knight was strongly 
censured and warned against a repetition of 
such an offense. Opposed by reason of his 
religion to any participation in military mat- 
ters, this circumstance weighed upon his 
mind, and was so annoying to him that he 
soon after removed with his family to Penn- 
field, N. B. , where he established a home. 
His children were: Joshua, born in 1795; 
Gideon, born in 1796; Sarah, born in 1798; 
Phoebe, born in 1800; Isaac, born in 1801 ; 
Moses, born in 1802; Priscilla, born in 
1804; Edmund, born in 1806; Phoebe and 
Marion, twins; Amy; and John. 

Joshua Knight, second, was a large vessel 
owner and builder. He was extensively en- 
gaged in the lumber industry, was largely in- 
terested in mercantile business, and also car- 
ried on agriculture to a considerable extent. 
He was one of the most prominent business 
men in New Brunswick in his day and a man 
of considerable local influence. Like his 
father, he was a member of the Society of 
Friends, and he trained his family in the re- 
ligious tenets of that society. His children 
were: Justice Edward, father of the subject of 




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this sketch; George Vernon, who died in 
189S; Amy, wife of the Rev. William Ben- 
nett, of Peterboro, Ont. ; and Susan, widow of 
Samuel G. Andrews. Joshua Knight died on 
February 8, 1851, aged fifty-five years. 

Justice Edward Knight obtained under his 
father's direction a good knowledge of the 
lumber business, which he continued to fol- 
low during his life. For a time when a boy 
he worked in a lumber office at St. George. 
Later he engaged in business for himself at 
St. George and at Beaver Harbor. Subse- 
quently he removed to Musquash, and pur- 
chased the mill at that place, which he oper- 
ated for a number of years. He also purchased 
the New River mills, which he carried on in 
connection with his eldest son ; and at the time 
of his death he owned and operated the Lancas- 
ter mills. He was one of the largest lumber 
manufacturers and dealers in New Brunswick. 
For many years he served as Magistrate. In 
religion he adhered to the faith of his ances- 
tors. His death occurred in 1883, and that of 
his wife, Hannah, who was a native of East- 
port, Me., in 1897. Their children were: 
Charles, who was lost at sea; Bessie, now 
deceased, who was the wife of Heddle Hill- 
iard, of Oldtown; Harriett R., a resident of 
Boston, Mass. ; Joshua, who, in company 
with his brother, Leonard B. , purchased his 
father's business from the heirs after the 
father's death; Lucy A., wife of Captain 
William C. Robertson, a mariner; Leonard 
B , the direct subject of this sketch; Ella R., 
wife of Charles Ludgate, of St. George; 
Caroline W., who is the wife of L. D. Seeley, 



of Boston; Fannie, the wife of G. H. 
Thomas, of Lepreaux; Justice E., a resident of 
British Columbia; and Henry P., now in the 
Klondike region. 

Leonard B. Knight, after receiving his ed- 
ucation at Sackville Academy, N.B., was 
associated with his father in business; and 
since the father's death he and his brother 
Joshua, as already narrated, having purchased 
the interests of the other heirs, have carried 
it on very successfully. 

Mr. Leonard was married in December, 
1885, to Miss Maria S. Haydock, of St. An- 
drews. His children are: Norah B., Bessie 
H., John S. and Marjorie (twins), and Guy. 

Mr. Knight is Chief Game Commissioner 
of New Brunswick. He is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias. Politically, he is a 
Liberal. 




ON. ALBERT T. DUNN, surveyor- 
general of New Brunswick, is a na- 
tive of the city of St. John, where 
he resides. His parents were John and Mar- 
tha (Gould) Dunn. His paternal grandfather, 
Robert Dunn, who was born in Ireland, lived 
and died there. 

John Dunn was born in Derry, Ireland, in 
1804, and was but a boy at the time of his 
father's death. In 18 18 he came to St. John, 
where his brother James had previously lo- 
cated. Their mother followed later, and 
pas.sed the remainder of her life in St. John, 
N. B. On arriving in this country John Dunn 
learned the cabinet-maker's trade, and later he 
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erected the first plaiiing-mill in St. John, 
and was a large importer of mahogany. He 
followed this business until 1854, when he pur- 
chased a farm in Musquash, where he subse- 
quently engaged in farming during the re- 
mainder of his life. His wife, Martha, was a 
daughter of Charles Gould, who came from 
Somersetshire, England, to Sussex, N.B. , and 
later removed with his family to Cambridge, 
Mass. Mr. and Rfrs. Dunn were the parents 
of the following-named children : Mrs. S. J. 
Parkin; R. C. John; J. J. Dunn, of Califor- 
nia; Albert T. , Thomas A. W. , and Frederick 
B. , of Musquash; and Eleanor T. , who is the 
wife of C. C. Clinch. Mr. John Dunn was a 
member of the Municipal Council for many 
years. His death occurred in 1889 at the age 
of eighty-five years. His wife died in 1878 
at the age of sixty-seven years 

The Hon. Albert T. Dunn received his 
early education in the schools of St. John, and 
completed it at the Normal School. After 
leaving school he became Collector of Customs 
at Musquash, and later served in the Munici- 
pal Council for several years. In 1892 and 
again by acclamation in 1895 he was elected 
to the Legislature for the county of St. John, 
being again returned by a large majority at 
the general election of 1898, and he is still 
serving his constituents to their full satisfac- 
tion and to his own credit. He is also Sur- 
veyor-general and, as such, member of the 
provincial government, and has charge of tim- 
ber lands, mining, game, and fisheries, and 
also of immigration. Politically, he is a Lib- 
eral. In religion he is a Presbyterian. 



fHOMAS GILBERT, a retired business 
man of St. John, N.B., where he was 
born in 1820, son of Henry Gilbert, a mer- 
chant of the city, is a descendant of a Massa- 
chusetts Loyalist, Colonel Thomas Gilbert, 
who served in the British army in the Revolu- 
tion, and came to this Province in 1783. 
Colonel Gilbert, whose former home was at 
Assonet, Mass., was a son of Captain Na- 
thaniel and Hannah (Bradford) Gilbert. His 
father was a grandson of John Gilbert, who 
arrived in Dorchester, Mass., from England 
about 1630; and his mother was a daughter of 
Samuel Bradford, of Duxbury, Mass., and a 
great-grand-daughter of Governor William 
Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, the line 
being: Governor William,' William,' Sam- 
uel,^ Hannah. ■• The maiden name of Colonel 
Gilbert's wife was Mary Godfrey. 

Thomas Gilbert, the subject of this sketch, 
completed his education under the direction 
of a private tutor. lie began his business 
life in his father's store, and after the retire- 
ment of the elder Gilbert, in 1847, he engaged 
in the shipping" business in company with his 
three brothers ^ Bradford, Henry, and James 
Gilbert — and carried it on extensively until 
1866, when he retired. Mr. Thomas Gilbert 
has ever since been engaged in managing his 
private affairs. He was formerly vice-presi- 
dent of the Bank of New Brunswick, and was 
a member of its Board of Directors for twenty- 
eight years. 

In 1876 Mr. Gilbert married Marion Fergu- 
son, of this city. She is a daughter of 
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for many years the head of the firm of Robert 
Rankin & Co. 




LIVER ROSWELL ARNOLD, a 

representative citizen of Sussex, 
N. B., was born at the Sussex rectory 
on May 31, 1832, son of the Rev. Horatio 
Nelson Arnold. His early life was spent at 
the rectory, and he was instructed by his 
father. Upon the death of his father in 1848 
he was sent to Kingston, where he attended 
school for some time. After completing his 
studies, he went to St. John and secured em- 
ployment as clerk in the drug store of J. H. 
Chipman. He learned the business with Mr. 
Chipman, and then set up for himself under 
the old Waverley House, now the Victoria 
Hotel. There he continued for a number of 
years, but the confinement affected his health, 
and it became necessary for him to give up 
his business. He then came to Sussex, where 
he built his ]3resent residence for General 
Williams, and where he has since resided. 

Major Arnold was married in September, 
1868, to Helen, daughter of the Hon. Edwin 
A. Vail, M.D., and is the father of five chil- 
dren, the record being as follows: Eva Mary, 
who was born in October, 1869; Reginald 
Herbert, born in July, 1872; Henry Medley, 
born in July, 1876; Margaret Georgiana 
Williams, born in September, 1879; and 
Roswell Vail, born in March, 1886. The 
Major was in active service in the militia for 
a period of over thirty years, and retired from 
the Seventy-fourth Regiment with his present 



ranking title. He is a member of Trinity 
Church and one of its earnest workers. In 
politics he is a Liberal. 

Dr. Edwin A. Vail, the father of Mrs. 
Arnold, was born in Sussex, and was a son of 
John C. Vail, who represented the county in 
the Legislature for many years. John C. Vail 
was twice married, his first wife being Char- 
lotte Arnold, a daughter of the Rev. Oliver 
Arnold, and his second wife being Eliza Will- 
iams, sister of General Williams. Of the 
second marriage there was one daughter, Mary 
by name, who died in early childhood. Of 
the first marriage there were eight children; 
namely, Oliver, Robert B. , Edwin A., Will- 
iam B., Matilda, Botsford, Elizabeth, and 
John. Oliver, the eldest, was for many years 
a merchant in Sussex, and from this place re- 
moved to Brier Island. He died in Wey- 
mouth, N. S. Robert B. was Sheriff, and 
resides at Gloucester. William B., who now 
resides in England, was for many years inter- 
ested in shipping at Weymouth, N. S., and 
was highly successful. He was Representa- 
tive in the Dominion Parliament, and was 
Minister of Militia under the McKenzie 
government. Matilda married Nelson Ar- 
nold, and is since deceased. Botsford, who 
was engaged in farming, was struck and killed 
b}- lightning at Kingston. Elizabeth died in 
1895. John V. went to Australia shortly after 
the gold fields were discovered. He died 
there, and was buried in Australian soil. 

Edwin A. Vail, M. D., was a graduate of 
Edinburgh University, and practised his pro- 
fession in Sussex up to the time of his tleath, 



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in 1886. He was very prominent in civic 
life, and represented the county in the House 
of the Assembly for many years. He occu- 
pied the Speaker's chair, and subsequently was 
a member of the government. He married 
Charlotte Cougle, of this place, and she bore 
him four children — ■ Herbert, William, Helen 
(Mrs. Arnold), and Alice. 




BRAHAM D. YERXA, of Fredericton, 
Recorder of Deeds for York County, 
was born in Douglas, N. B. , June 6, 
1 82 1. He is a son of the late Benjamin 
Yerxa and a descendant of an early Dutch 
colonist who settled on the Hudson River. In 
1783 his great-grandfather, John Yerxa, who 
had remained loyal to the crown during the 
American Revolution, settled in New Bruns- 
wick. In 1788 John Yerxa purchased of 
Frederick D. Feyster a tract of land in Kes- 
wick, where he engaged in farming. His 
death occurred at the age of eighty-five years. 
He had a family of eight children; and his 
sons were : Abraham, Daniel, John, Isaac, and 
James Yerxa. 

Abraham Yerxa, the grandfather of Abra- 
ham D. , was born in New York, and accom- 
panied his parents to New Brunswick when he 
was ten years old. Fie became a well-to-do 
farmer and lumberman, and for many years was 
prominent among the business men of this lo- 
cality. He was commissioned an Ensign in 
the militia, under Colonel John Allen, was 
promoted to the rank of Major when he was 
fifty-five years old, and served as such for 



thirty years. He was the father of fifteen 
children, namely: Daniel, who served as a 
Lieutenant in the militia; Ruth; Benjamin; 
John, who served as a Captain; Jonathan; 
Isaac Allen; Michael; Wellington; Cath- 
erine; Abraham; Elizabeth Skelton ; Sam- 
uel; Patience; Barbara; and Moses Yerxa. 
Abraham Yerxa gave to each of his sons a 
farm. 

Benjamin Yerxa, Abraham D. Yerxa's 
father, engaged in farming and lumbering, 
and acted as a Justice of the Peace for thirty- 
five years. He resided in Boston, where he 
died just previous to his eighty-seventh birth- 
day. The Yerxas were members of the Church 
of England, but he united with the Baptist 
church. Benjamin Yerxa's first wife was a 
daughter of Jonathan Sisson, a Loyalist, who 
came to New Brunswick after the Revolution- 
ary War; and he married for his second wife 
a Mrs. Jewett, born Needham. Of his first 
marriage were born nine children, namely: 
Abraham D., the subject of this sketch; Jona- 
than; Joseph; Benjamin; Daniel; Chesle}' ; 
Abigail, who died j'oung; Abbie; and Je- 
mima. By his second marriage he had three 
children, one of whom died in infancy. The 
others are: Henry D. , of the well-known Bos- 
ton grocery firm of Cobb, Bates & Yerxa; and 
Edward. 

Abraham D. Yerxa acquired the rudiments 
of his education at the log school-house in 
Douglas, where he attended school until he 
was ten years old, and worked upon his father's 
farm until he was seventeen. He completed 
his studies with an eii'ht months' course at 



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the Baptist Seminary in Fredericton ; and for 
the succeeding four years he was employed as 
a clerk in a general store kept by his uncle, 
John Yerxa. Returning to the home farm, 
he cuitix'ated it for several years in connection 
with lumbering. In 1857 he entered the con- 
test for a seat in the Provincial Parliament in 
opposition to the Hon. Charles Fisher, but 
was defeated by thirteen votes. He was ap- 
pointed Recorder of Deeds in 1865, and has 
since served with ability in that position up to 
the present date. 

On July 4, 1842, Mr. Yer.xa married Cath- 
arine J. Miles, daughter of Captain James 
Miles, of Douglas, York County. She became 
the mother of eleven children, four of whom 
are living: Alfred E., a resident of Boston; 
Mary Bell, wife of Dr. Cliff, of Boston; Cath- 
arine A., wife of William T. McCloud, of St. 
John; and P. Abraham Yer.xa, a merchant in 
Boston. The others were: Elijah Miles; 
Fanny Elizabeth, wife of Samuel O. Willbur, 
of Moncton, N. B. ; Charles E. ; Gertrude A. ; 
Ambrose E., who died in infancy; Frederick 
L., who died at the age of two years; and 
Frederick. Mr. Yer.xa's oldest son, Elijah 
M., graduated from Harvard University with 
the degree of M.D., and for a time attended 
lectures at the University of New Brunswick, 
later becoming a medical practitioner in 
York County. He married Harriet Eliza- 
beth, daughter of John Burpee, of Douglas, 
and, dying in 1867, at the age of twenty-five, 
left one son, Elijah B. Yer.xa, who is now an 
assistant in the Registry of Deeds. 

Mr. Yerxa is a member of the Baptist 




church. He resided in Gibson for some years, 
or until the death of his wife, which occurred 
June II, 1893; and this event, together with 
the destruction of his house by fire, June 20 
of the same year, caused him to remove to the 
city. 

ENRY LAWRANCh: STURDEE, 
M.A., High Sheriff of the city and 
county of St. John, N.B., was born 
in that city, April 11, 1842. His parents 
were Henry Parker and Emily (Lawrance) 
Sturdee, both natives of England. Mr. 
Sturdee was educated at private schools in St. 
John, at the Collegiate School, Fredericton, 
N. B. , and at King's College until and after it 
became the University of New Brunswick. 
He matriculated in September, 1858, was 
awarded the Douglass gold medal in June, 
1859, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1861, 
and Master of Arts in 1863. He studied law 
in St. John with Messrs. Gray & Kaye, bar- 
risters, was admitted attorney in 1864, and 
was called to the bar in 1865; and he has 
since practised his profession in St. John. 

He was appointed Referee in Equity of the 
Supreme Court of New Brunswick in 1886, 
and was appointed Sheriff in April, 1893. 
He was elected Alderman for Ward Four of 
the city of Portland (now forming a part of 
St. John) in 1883, 1884, and 1885. He was 
also elected a Councillor of the municipality 
of St. John in 1883, and served five years in 
that capacity. He was chosen Warden of the 
municipality in April, 1884, and 1885. In 
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land, and was re-elected to the same office by 
acclamation the following year. 

Sheriff Sturdee belongs to the Church of 
England. He has been vestry clerk and treas- 
urer of Trinity Church, St. John, since 1871, 
and a delegate from that church to the Synod 
of the Diocese of Fredericton since i8go. He 
is also one of the delegates from that diocese 
to the Provincial Synod and to the General 
Synod of Canada. He is secretary and treas- 
urer of the Madras School in New Brunswick, 
having held these offices since 1877. He is 
Past Worshipful Master of Union Lodge of 
Portland, A. F. & A. M. ; a member of the 
New Brunswick Royal Arch Chapter and of 
the Encampment of St. John, Knights 
Templan He was two years vice-president 
and two years president of the St. George's 
Society, and is Lieutenant Colonel of the 
Third St. John Reserve Militia. 

Sheriff Sturdee was married September 26, 
1866, to Jane Agnes, daughter of the late 
William R. Eraser, Esq., M.D., of Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. His family consists of 
three sons and two daughters; namely, Henry 
Russell, Edward Frederick Lavvrance, Harold 
Edwyn Carter, Constance limily Lavvrance, 
and Gertrude Agnes Kingdon. 




iLIFFORD W. ROBINSON, ex- 
Mayor of Moncton, N.B., was born 
near that city on September i, 
1866, a son of William J. and Margaret 
(Trenholm) Robinson. 

William C. Robinson, father of William J., 



was engaged in the pursuit of agriculture in 
Albert and Westmoreland Counties till he 
retired to the town of Moncton, where he 
ended his life of seventy-four years. A man 
of integrity, he was highly esteemed as a citi- 
zen and as a neighbor. Of his union with 
Margaret Chapman four children were born, 
of whom two are now living — John T. and 
Albert C. 

William J. Robinson was born and brought 
up in Albert County, New Brunswick. From 
the completion of his education until attaining 
his majority he was employed in general farm- 
ing on the parental homestead. Subsequently 
removing to Moncton, he embarked in the real 
estate business to a large extent, and for a 
number of years was among the leading and 
successful citizens of the place. He died at 
the age of fifty-four years, leaving a substan- 
tial property. He was a Liberal in politics, 
and held many offices of trust, including those 
of Town Councillor; chairman of the School 
Committee, a position which he acceptably 
filled many terms; and School Trustee, an 
office which he lield at the time of his death. 
His wife, Margaret, died when she was but 
thirty-seven years old. She bore him four 
children, of whom Clifford W. and Frank C. 
are the only ones now living. 

Clifford W. Robinson was educated in the 
county of W'estmoreland, and graduated from 
the University at Sackville, N.B., with the 
class of 1886. The ensuing three years he 
was employed as a book-keeper with a Monc- 
ton firm, but resigned his position to take up 
the study of law, which he read with C. A. 




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Steeves, and with his brother, the late A. L. 
Robinson. He subsequently studied with 
Messrs. Hanington & Wilson, leading barris- 
ters of St. John, N. B., after which, in 1892, 
he opened his present office in Moncton, 
where he has since followed his profession 
with success. In 1895 his fellow-townsmen 
gave evidence of their appreciation of his 
ability and character by electing him Town 
Councillor, a position which he filled two 
years. In 1897 he was further honored by 
being elected by acclamation Mayor of Monc- 
ton, an office which he filled to the satisfac- 
tion of all concerned. In politics he is a 
Liberal. In June, 1S97, he was elected by 
acclamation a member of the Legislative 
Assembly of New Brunswick for the county 
of Westmoreland, and in March, 1899, re- 
elected to the same position. 

On October 2, 1890, Mr. Robinson married 
Annie M. Hinson, of England. Mr. Robin- 
son is a member of Prince Albert Lodge, 
I. O. O. F., of Moncton, and an adherent of 
the Methodist church. 




"ON. CHARLES N. SKINNER, 
O. C, ex-Judge of Probate for the 
county of St. John, N.B. , is now 
Recorder for the city of St. John. He was 
born in St. John, March 12, 1833, son of 
Samuel Skinner, whose father came from New 
England to the Provinces just before the 
breaking out of the Revolutionary War. 
Samuel .Skinner was born in Nova Scotia 
and during his active life was a leading- 



builder and contractor of St. John. He mar- 
ried Phebe Sherwood, daughter of Robert 
Golding and grand-daughter of Captain Gold- 
ing, a Loyalist, who commanded a company of 
dragoons through the American Revolution, 
and afterward emigrated with his family to the 
Maritime Provinces. 

Charles N. Skinner received his elementary 
education in the schools of St. John, and after 
studying law with Charles W. Stockton was 
admitted an attorney in 1858, and in i860 was 
called to the bar. He began the practice of 
his profession in the city of his birth, where 
he has since won an excellent reputation as a 
keen, clear-headed lawyer, prudent in counsel 
and devoted to the interests of his clients. 
P'or nearly twoscore years Mr. Skinner has 
been active in politics, and from 1861 until 
1868 he was a member of the Legislative 
Assembly. In August, 1867, he was ap- 
pointed Solicitor General, an office which he 
ably filled until March, 1868, when he was 
made Judge of Probate for St. John County. 
During the same year he was also ajipointed 
Queen's Counsel by the provincial govern- 
ment, and in 1883 was thus honored by the 
Dominion Government. In 1887 Mr. Skinner, 
who had previously resigned his position as 
Judge, was elected to the Dominion Parlia- 
ment, in which he served until 1892. He 
subsequently resumed his position as Judge 
of Probate, having been reappointed in June, 
1892, and served until January, 1894, when he 
resigned to accept his present office of City 
Recorder. For several years he was a member 
of the St. John City Council, and while occu- 



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pying that position took advantage of every 
opportunity to advance tlie welfare of the city 
and the interests of its citizens. 

Fraternally, Mr. Skinner is a Mason and an 
Odd Fellow; and he is a member of the Union 
Club of St. John. In his religious belief he 
is a Baptist, and contributes generously toward 
the support of that denomination. In June, 
1896, he received the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Civil Law from King's College, 
Windsor, N. S. On January 12, 1865, Mr. 
Skinner married Eliza Jane, daughter of the 
late Daniel J. McLaughlin, of St. John, a 
former president of the Commercial Bank of 
New Brunswick. Eight children have been 
born of this union ; namely, Anne J. (de- 
ceased), Stewart, Charles, Grace, Sherwood, 
Gertrude, Harold, and Waldo. 



'-r'^V^^ATTHIAS HAMM, who for many 
p— I —f years was engaged in mercantile 
^ V^^ business in St. John and vicinity, 

was born at Grand Bay, near Westfield, Kings 
County, N.B., in 1830, son of Captain David 
and Sarah (Britton) Hamm. His grandfather 
was Charles Hamm, a German, who with his 
wife emigrated to America previous to the 
Revolutionary War, settling first in Jersey 
City, N.J. An account of his family will be 
found in a sketch of J. B. Hamm, which ap- 
pears elsewhere in the Review. 

David Hamm, the father of Matthias, was 
born at Grand Bay, Kings County, N.B. He 
followed general farming during his active 
years, and also operated a grist-mill. Me was 



accidentally killed in his mill in 1882. His 
wife, Sarah, was a daughter of CaiDtain Jo- 
seph Britton. She became the mother of five 
children, namely: James E. ; Elizabeth; Jo- 
seph B. ; David ; and Matthias, the subject of 
this sketch. 

Matthias Hamm left home at the age of 
fifteen, and, going to Indiantown, entered the 
general store of Philip Nase as a clerk. 
After continuing in that capacity for som.e 
years he was admitted to partnership, and 
later became sole proprietor of the business, 
which he carried on until selling it back to 
Mr. Nase. For the succeeding seven years 
he was engaged in the flour and feed business 
on South Wharf, St. John, and then returning 
to Indiantown he erected what is now known 
as Court's Block, where he established him- 
self in the grocery trade. In connection with 
his mercantile business he became quite 
largely interested in the manufacture of lum- 
ber at the Holt Mill on the St. John River, 
and in company with G. Van Wart he built 
the steamer "Star," which was run as a 
passenger boat to and from Cole's Island. 
He also invested in shipping. Relinquishing 
the grocery business in 1875, he engaged in 
the manufacture of lime, but subsequently 
went to Marsh Bridge, where he once more 
turned his attention to mercantile pursuits 
and continued in trade for the rest of his life. 

Mr. Hamm married Miss Cassie Ketchum, 
daughter of James Ketchum, of Carleton, 
N.B. They were the parents of eleven chil- 
dren, six of whom lived to maturity, namely: 
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in St. John, November 6, 1862; Robert 
Parker, who was born January 25, 1865; 
P'rank V., born in 1S72; and George H., born 
in 1S80. Minnie is the wife of Frank Ran- 
kine, of the firm of T. Rankine & Sons. 
James K. Hamm, who succeeded to his 
father's business at Marsh Bridge, married 
Jennie Cochran, of Bloomfield, and his chil- 
dren are: Frank, Mathias, Edith, Harold. 
Philip N. Hamm served an apprenticeship of 
five years at the baker's trade with T. Ran- 
kine & Sons, and was in the employ of the 
well-known biscuit manufacturers, Messrs. 
Thurston & Hall, Boston, for the same 
length of time. In 1889 he, in company with 
his brother, Robert P., established the biscuit 
manufactory in St. John carried on under the 
firm name of Hamm Brothers, and has built 
up a good business. On June 16, 1885, he 
married Margaret May Siteman, of Boston, 
daughter of the late Captain Siteman, for- 
merly of Halifax. He has one son, Arthur 
M., born February 22, 1886. Philip N. 
Hamm belongs to the Canadian Order of 
P^oresters, and is Captain of the North End 
Salvage Corps. He has been Vestryman for 
two years of St. Luke's Church. Robert 
Parker Hamm was in the livery business prior 
to engaging in the manufacture of biscuit. 
He is one of the progressive young men of St. 
John, and is a Past Chief Ranger of the local 
court, Canadian Order of Foresters. In No- 
vember, 1888, he married Helen E. Andrews, 
daughter of John Andrews, who for thirty-five 
years was in the employ of Price & Shaw, 
carriage builders of this city, and who died in 

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1895. Robert P. Hamm is the father of three 
children: George P., born in November, 
1890; Gladys, born in November, 1893; and 
I-^reeman \Voodman, born in 1895. P^rank V. 
Hamm, who has acquired success in mercan- 
tile business, was married in 1895 to Maud 
C. Clark, daughter of Thomas Clark, of St. 
John. George H. Hamm is an efficient book- 
keeper of this city. 

Matthias Hamm died December 8, 18S9. 
He was a member of the Church of England, 
and for nearly a quarter of a century a Vestry- 
man of St. Luke's Church, St. John; and he 
took an active interest in the temperance 
cause. Mrs. Hamm died November 25, 
1892. 

(sTYNDREW SMALL INCHES, for twenty 
F7y\ years Provincial Secretary of crown 

V — - lands, was a native of Scotland, and 
was born in the region of the River Clyde. 
He attended the common and high schools, 
and studied civil engineering in his native 
country. At the age of eighteen he came to 
P'redericton for the purpose of following his 
profession, and, entering the service of the 
government, was appointed to a position in 
crown lands office. He ably performed the 
responsible duties of chief draughtsman for 
a period of twenty years, was then appointed 
secretar)' of the department, and remained at 
its head for the same length of time. He 
was for several years assistant clerk of the 
E.xecutive Council; and his public services 
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to the interests of the Province being univer- 
sally recognized and appreciated. 

Mr. Inches married Margaret Dougal, daugh- 
ter of William Dougal, who was connected 
with Rankins Wharf for many years, or until 
his death, which occurred in 1883. Mr. and 
Mrs. Inches had seven children, one of whom 
died in infancy, one at the age of twenty-seven 
years, and five are living Their two sons are 
Ijoth medical practitioners. One daughter be- 
came the wife of Major Hemming, of the 
Fredericton Barracks. Another married Pro- 
fessor Fletcher, of the University of Toronto; 
and the third married the Rev. Milledge 
Walker. Mr. Inches was a member of the 
Church of England. He departed this life on 
the 1st of November, 1897. 



NORMAN W. WTNSLOW, barris- 
ter-at-law, Woodstock, N.B. , was born 
there, July 8, i860, a son of the late 
John C. Winslow, for many years a most hon- 
ored and respected citizen of this town. He 
is of distinguished stock, being lineally de- 
scended from Edward Winslow, who came to 
America in the "Mayflower," and was one of 
the early governors of the Plymouth colony. 
(See sketch of E. Byron Winslow on another 
page of the Re\'iic\v for further account of an- 
cestry. ) 

John C. Winslow, a son of John ¥. W. 
Winslow, the first Sheriff of Carleton County, 
was born in Kingswood, parish of Kingsdear, 
near Fredericton, May 24, 1826. He was of 
pure Loyalist parentage, and during his life 



remained true to the sentiments of his ances- 
try. He was a great-grandson of Edward 
Winslow, who died in Halifax a century ago, 
and the grandson of Judge Edward Winslow, 
who resided at Kingswood, parish of Kings- 
dear, and who was one of the first Judges of the 
Supreme Court of this Province. John C. 
Winslow studied law at F'redericton with the 
late David Shanks Kerr, and subsequently lo- 
cated in Woodstock, where he was connected 
in business with different men, his first part- 
ner after coming here having been the late 
Edwin Jacob, the second James Edgar, and a 
later W. B. Chandler. P'or a time he was 
Lieutenant in the artillery corps of which 
the Captain was James Edgar, with whom he 
had a few years' experience in the newspaper 
business, the two men having established the 
Acadian in 1865. In 1872 he was appointed 
Postmaster of Woodstock, and on the death of 
the late D. L. Dibblee he was appointed Reg- 
istrar of Probate. His death, in January, 
1896, was a great loss, not only to his family 
and special friends, but to the entire commu- 
nity. He was most emphatically a large- 
hearted, manly man, despising any approach 
to meanness or pettiness of conduct. He was 
honest, candid, and liberal, ever ready to re- 
lieve the wants of the poor, the t>nly limit to 
his generosity being his ability to give. He 
had a genial disposition, and, though not with- 
out faults, had nothing to conceal, his imper- 
fections being upon the surface. He married 
Charlotte L. , daughter of Samuel O'Donnell, 
of Amherst, Deputy Land Surveyor of Cum- 
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four children: J. Norman W. ; Minnie O. D. 
Robert, of Montreal, Canada; Jessie K. 
Sjostedt, of Montreal, Canada; and Pauline. 

J. Norman W. Winslow pursued his early 
studies at the Lennoxville Grammar School, 
Province of Quebec, at Bishop's College, and 
at the University of New Brunswick. In 
1879 he entered the law ofifice of Fraser, Wet- 
more & Winslow in Fredericton, and remained 
with that firm until 1881, when he took a 
course of lectures at the Harvard Law School. 
Returning then to Fredericton, he was ad- 
mitted as an attorney in October, 1882, and 
the following month he opened a law office in 
Woodstock. In 1883 he was admitted barris- 
ter, and he has since built up a very success- 
ful practice in this vicinity. He does a solic- 
itor's business, and makes a specialty of con- 
veyancing, in both of which he is skilled. In 
June, 1883, he established an insurance 
agency in Woodstock in company with his 
father; and on the death of the latter he suc- 
ceeded to the entire business, which is now 
one of the largest of the kind in the town. 

Mr. Winslow married Ella Gertrude, daugh- 
ter of G. W. Van Wart, of whom a sketch ap- 
pears on another page of this volume. They 
have two children — John Douglas and Marion 
Gertrude. Mr. Winslow belongs to a number 
of the leading fraternal organizations of 
Woodstock, including F. & A. M., No. 11, 
of which he is one of the Trustees; Ivanhoe 
Lodge, K. of P. ; and Court Regina, I. O. F. 
Politically, he is chairman of the Liberal 
Conservative party in Carleton County. Both 
he and his wife are members of the Church of 



England, and he is vestry clerk of the parish 
church. 




ILLIAM SHAW^ M.P.P., one of 
St. John's representative citizens, 
was born in Simoncls Parish, St. John County, 
N. B. , on September 19, 1838, his parents 
being William and Ellen (West) Shaw. His 
father, who was a native of the north of Ire- 
land, emigrated to New Brunswick about the 
year 1825, and here engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. His death occurred in 1839, 'i"*^! 
that of his wife, Ellen, in 1872, the latter 
being seventy-two years of age. They had 
six children, four of whom are living. 

William Shaw spent his boyhood days on 
his father's farm, but in 1854 came to the 
city, where he worked at different occupations 
until 1868. He then joined his brother 
James, and the two established the baking 
business which has since been so highly suc- 
cessful. Mr. Shaw has shown himself to be 
an apt business man, skilful in the handling 
of his business and in its financial manage- 
ment, prompt in every transaction, and of un- 
impeachable integrity in the conduct of all 
his affairs. Recognized as such by his fellow- 
citizens, he has been sought after as their rep- 
resentative in the carrying on of public busi- 
ness in various lines. For ten years he 
served the city in the Common Council as 
representative from Wellington Ward, and 
from the time of the union of St. John and 
Portland until he resigned his seat in the 
Council he was chairman of the Board of Pub- 
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he has been a member of the Provincial Legis- 
lature. Fraternally, he is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, and for some years he has 
been trustee of the Exmouth Street Methodist 
Church. In addition to conducting his ex- 
tensive bakery, Mr. Shaw has for the past six- 
teen years carried on a large farm. 

Mr. Shaw was married in 187 1 to Isabella, 
daughter of W'illiam W'ooton, of Loyalist 
descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Shaw the follow- 
ing-named children have been born: William 
A., who is engaged in business with his 
father; James I'rederick; Edward E., a clerk; 
Leonard B. ; Harry B., who is in his father's 
business; Nellie W. ; Jennie Isabelle; and 
Allen B. 



(^AMES McGregor Baxter, m.d., 

one of the leading medical practitioners 
of Chatham, N. B. , is a native of Truro, 
N. S., and was born in 1845, his parents being 
the Rev. John I. and Jessie (Gordon) Baxter. 
His father was a Scotchman by birth, and, 
previous to coming to Nova Scotia in 1821, 
was settled in Dumfriesshire. His mother 
was a daughter of Peter Gordon, who settled at 
St. Peter's Bay, Prince Edward Island, her 
native place. Her father died when she was 
an infant, and her mother subsequently married 
the Rev. Dr. McGregor, of Pictou. 

The Rc\-. John I. Baxter was a clergyman of 
the Presbyterian church. He served the 
church in Onslow, N. S., for fifty-fi\-e years, 
losing only a half-day in all the time of his 
ministration. He and his wife were the par- 
ents of nine children, who grew to mature 



years, three of them being sons. They were 
named as follows: James McGregor, Robert 
Gordon, David A., Eliza, Jessie, Mary, Sarah, 
Ellen, and Caroline. Robert Gordon was a 
physician, and practised his profession in 
Moncton, N. B. , for twenty years. Pie 
died in August, iSgo. David was a dentist, 
resident in Quebec. Eliza is the wife of 
Hugh Dunlap, of Stewiacke, N. S. Jessie is 
the wife of James Eraser, of Mai^garet Bay, 
N. S. Mary and Sarah reside in Truro. Ellen 
is the wife of Charles Hart Baddeck, of Cape 
Breton. Caroline is the wife of the Rev. Isaac 
Simpson, of Canton, 111. The Rev. Mr. Bax- 
ter was agent for the Maritime Provinces for 
the Presbyterian Board of Publication of Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. His death occurred in 1S87, at 
the age of eighty-four years. His wife, Mrs. 
Jessie Gordon Baxter, died at fifty-four years 
of age. 

James McGregor Baxter attended the model 
school at Truro, the Presbyterian Seminary at 
the same place, and Dalhousie College in 
Halifax. From the last-named institution he 
went to Boston, and studied medicine with Dr. 
F"oye, the City Coroner, and subsequent to that 
attended Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., and Harvard Medical College. He 
was graduated at Har\'ard Medical College in 
1 87 1, and immediately came to Chatham, 
which has since been the scene of his profes- 
sional labors. He has an extensi\-e practice 
among the best families here, and is looked up 
to as an authority by his fellow-physicians. 
The doctor is now serving as surgeon-major of 
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held this office for the past eleven years. He 
is president of the Natural History Society, 
and takes an active part in all its proceedings. 
Professionall}', he is connected with the New 
Brunswick Medical Society, and fraternally 
with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias. 




"ON. DAVID McLh:LLAN was born 
in Portland, St. John, N.B., January 
20, 1839. His father, who was a 
ship-builder, came from Drumfries, Scotland; 
and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary 
Knight, descended from a Quaker family of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. McLellan was educated 
at the commercial and mathematical school, 
St. John, taught by the late William Mills. 
At an early age he gave his attention to the 
lumber business, and was for years the senior 
member of the firm of McLellan & Holly, one 
of the largest lumber concerns in St. John, 
whose operations handled from forty to sixty 
thousand feet of rough lumber annually. 

Mr. Mcl^ellan also took an active interest 
in the political affairs of the Province. He 
was first elected to the House of Assembly of 
New Brunswick at the general election of 
1878 for the city and county of St. John, at 
the head of the poll, and was re-elected at the 
general election of 1882. The Hon. Dr. 
Elder, a colleague in the representation of the 
city and county of St. John and Provincial 
Secretary of the Province, died in July, 1883. 
Mr. McLellan succeeded Dr. Elder as Pro- 
vincial Secretary, and was sworn in a member 
of the Executive Council and as Provincial 



Secretary, July 28, 18S3. His acceptance of 
office in the government of the Province 
vacated his seat in the Assembly, and an elec- 
tion was held on August 23, 1883, to fill the 
vacancy caused by his resignation and the 
death of Dr. Elder. He was then re-elected, 
with Dr. A. A. Stockton as his colleague, and 
continued to represent the city and county of 
St. John until the general election of January, 
i8go, when he was defeated. In March, 
1890, Mr. McLellan resigned his office as 
Provincial Secretary, and was appointed to a 
seat in the Legislative Council, still continu- 
ing his position as a member of the Executive 
Council, of which he was appointed president, 
and also a member of the Board of Public 
Works, until August, 1891, when he was ap- 
pointed Registrar of Deeds and Wills and 
Registrar of Probates for the city and county 
of St. John. This office he continued to hold 
till his death, on December 19, 1894. At 
that time he was a member both of the Ma- 
sonic order and of the Odd Eel lows, and was 
president of the Union Club, St. John. In 
religion he was a Baptist, attending the Ger- 
main Street Baptist Church. In Dominion 
politics he was a Liberal, and in the personal 
relations of life was a warm friend and popular 
with all having his acquaintance. 

He married December 19, 1865, Fanny B., 
daughter of the late Henry Richards, of St. 
John. Four children were born of this union, 
namely: Harry R., a lumber merchant of St. 
John; Ida K., wife of Frederick J. Harding, 
agent of the Marine and Fisheries Department 
of Canada at St. John ; J. Verner, Registrar 



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of Deeds and Wills for the city and count}' of 
St. John; and Edmund P., who died in in- 
fancy. 

J. Verner McLellan was born in St. John, 
N.B., November lo, 1868. He was educated 
in the city schools, Woodstock (Ont. ) Col- 
lege, and Kerr's Business College, St. John. 
In 1888 he accepted a position in the general 
offices of the New Brunswick Railway Com- 
pany as car accountant. In 1891 he was ap- 
pointed Deputy Registrar of Deeds and Wills 
for the county of St. John; and in 1894, on 
the death of his father, the Hon. David Mc- 
Lellan, he was appointed Registrar of Deeds 
and Wills, which position he at present holds. 
He is a member of the Masonic order and of 
the Knights of Pythias. On October 19, 
1897, he married Florence Louise, daughter 
of Robert O. Stockton, a prominent barrister 
of St. John. They have one child, Jarvis 
Oldfield. 



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APTAIN JOHN McLEOD, M.RP., 
a well-known capitalist and business 



man of Black River, N.B., was 
born at Greenock, on the Clyde, Scotland, in 
1825. His parents were Peter and Mary (Mc- 
Curdy) McLeod, the former of whom was a 
native of Greenock, Scotland, and a ship- 
wright by occupation, having learned his 
trade in Scotland. 

Peter McLeod emigrated from his native 
land in 1825, when his son John was an infant, 
and settled at Miramichi, where for a time he 
followed his trade. Subsequently he contin- 
ued it in St. John, to which place he had re- 



moved, and in St. John County, of which he 
remained a resident until his death, which 
occurred in 1865, when he was eighty-five 
years old. He was an Elder in the Presby- 
terian church. His wife died in 1862, at the 
age of sixty years. She also was a native of 
Greenock, Scotland. They had seven chil- 
dren, namely: Mary, who married John 
Smith, and died in Western Ontario; John, 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch, 
and of whom a fuller account follows; Angus, 
who is now deceased ; Peter, Robert, and 
Sarah, who all reside in St. John County; and 
Margaret, who is the wife of a Mr. Wasson, 
of Boston, Mass. 

John McLeod, with whom this sketch is 
more directly concerned, was reared upon a 
farm. In early manhood he engaged in fish- 
ing and lumbering, to which occupations he 
devoted his energies for many years. In 
1862 he went to Australia, where he spent five 
successful years in the gold mines. Return- 
ing home in 1867, he built the ship "Brill- 
iant," which he sailed four years as master, 
trading in the West Indies, the United States, 
and Europe. Then giving up seafaring, he 
engaged in ship -building at Black River. 
The last large ship built in the Province — 
the "John McLeod," sixteen hundred tons — 
was launched from his yard. Other fine speci- 
mens of his workmanship were the "Hudson " 
and the "New City." In all three of these 
he held an interest, and he still holds an in- 
terest in several. 

In 1892 Captain McLeod was elected to the 
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cided by the casting vote of the sheriff. He 
was re-elected in 1896 without opposition, 
and again in 1899, this time by a large ma- 
jority. He was a member of the Municipal 
Council of Black River for twenty-four years. 
He also served some time as commissioner of 
the almshouse, and is still a commissioner. 
He was one of the organizers and for some 
time president of the St. Martin Telephone 
Company. He is a member of the St. An- 
drews Society. 

Captain McLeod was married in 1870 to 
Miss Mary Ann Alward, of Kings County. 




lONTESOUIEU McDonald, bar- 
rister, St. John, was born in 
Queens County, New Brunswick, 
June 13, 1846, son of Thomas E. and Susan 
A. (McDonald) McDonald. His father was 
born in Queens County in 181 5. His grand- 
father, David McDonald, was also born there; 
and his great-grandfather, Alexander Mc- 
Donald, who emigrated from Scotland to New 
York prior to the American Revolution, came 
to New Brunswick with other Loyalists in 
1783. David McDonald, who was a farmer, 
married Jemima Belyea, and had a family of 
ten children, five sons and five daughters, of 
whom Thomas E. was the eldest. 

Thomas E. McDonald followed agricultural 
pursuits in Queens County during his active 
years, and was a prominent man in his local- 
ity, serving as a Justice of the Peace. Susan 
A. McDonald, his wife, was a native of the 
same county and a daughter of Alexander Mc- 



Donald, second, a native of Westmoreland 
County. Her grandfather was Alexander Mc- 
Donald, first, who came direct from Scotland 
to New Brunswick. Alexander McDonald, 
second, reared six sons and one daughter. 
Thomas E. and Susan A. McDonald were the 
parents of seven children, namely: George ¥.., 
who died in infancy; Alexander D., M.D. ; 
Montesquieu, the subject of this sketch; 
Emeline, who married David H. (jilchrist; 
Jannett J., who married James W. Cox; Jane 
E. , wife of Henry S. Seely ; and Margaret 
A., wife of John M. Wiley. The father died 
July 31, 1892, and the mother died April 12, 
1868. Alexander D. McDonald, M.D., is a 
successful physician of Kalispell, Mont., and 
has two children. 

Montesquieu McDonald attended the com- 
mon and superior schools of his native place, 
and completed his education at the St. John 
Commercial School. Hlntering the office of 
Dr. Silas Alward, D.C.L., as a student in 
1866, he pursued his legal studies under the 
direction of that able lawyer for four years, 
at the expiration of which time he was ad- 
mitted an attorney, becoming a barrister in 
1871. A large and varied practice of over 
twenty-five years' duration has made him 
widely and favorably known throughout the 
Province, and he is regarded as a lawyer of 
unusual ability. In 18S2 he was appointed 
Clerk of the St. John County Court, and has 
served in that capacity continuously to the 
present time. 

In 1875 Mr. McDonald was united in mai'- 
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Thomas E. Streek, who came to this city from 
London, England, when a young man. Seven 
children have been born of this union, 
namely: William S., who is in the office with 
his father; Annie L. ; Charles H. ; Kenneth 
E. ; Nellie B. ; Jean; and Allen C, who died 
in infancy. 

Mr. McDonald is a member of the Germain 
Street Baptist Church, of which he is a trus- 
tee, and was formerly president of the Baptist 
Educational Society. 



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EORGE F. SMITH, who for many 
\P! years was prominently identified 
with the business, social, and political inter- 
ests of St. John, was born in that city, Octo- 
ber 19, 1839, ^^'^^ died March 6, 1894. He 
was the son of Thomas M. and Rebecca (Find- 
lay) Smith and grandson of Nathan Smith, 
M.D., a surgeon of one of the Loyalist regi- 
ments, the famous De Lancy's brigade, who 
settled in St. John in 1783, received haif-pay, 
and practised his profession in that city till 
his decease. 

Thomas M. Smith was for many years con- 
nected with the firm of Johnson & Walker, 
ship-chandlers and ship-owners. He later 
transacted a large business in the same line 
for himself, and was one of the most active men 
of his day. For saving a large amount of 
specie which had been sunk off the coast, he 
was presented with a gold watch by the 
Cunard Company. Lie was for some years the 
head of the fire department. Apart from his 
extensive business undertakings, he took a 



lively interest in the various institutions of 
the city, religious, charitable, fraternal, and 
others, and was a Master Mason. Thomas M. 
Smith died in 1867. He was the father of 
eight children; namely, John, Rufus, Julia, 
William, Eleanor, George F. (the subject of 
this sketch), Iildwin, and James. The widow 
of Thomas M. .Smith died in 1877, aged 
seventy-three years. 

George F. Smith acquired the primary 
branches of his education in St. John, and 
went from the grammar school there to a pri- 
vate educational institution in Kingston, 
N.B. When a young man he became associ- 
ated in business with his father, and, succeed- 
ing to the business after his father's death, he 
enlarged and carried it on successfully for 
many years. He was an extensive ship- 
owner, and was one of the first in St. John to 
own steel and iron ships. His interest in the 
affairs of the city was most beneficial to the 
community, and the salary he received during 
his term as Alderman was used to erect a 
fountain in the old cemetery. He ever took 
a deep interest in militia matters, and as a 
young man was a member of the old " Peters' 
Battery." At the time of his death he was 
Captain and Paymaster of the New Brunswick 
Brigade of Garrison Artillery, and was one of 
the best loved officers of that corps. He was 
respected for his high sense of honor and abso- 
lute integrity, as well as beloved for his kind- 
liness and charm of manner, and his death 
was regretted by the citizens at large. 

Li Octobei-, 1S79, he married Miss Minnie 
Gordon, of Pictou, N. S., daughter of William 








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Gordon, who came to that place from Scotland 
when a young man. I^esides his widow he 
left three daughters. 

The late Mr. Smith belonged to the Ma- 
sonic order; the Union Club, of which he was 
one of the organizers; the Neptune Rowing 
Club; the Athletic Association, and other in- 
stitutions of a public or social nature, and he 
availed himself of every opportunity to ad- 
vance the interests of his native city, of which 
he was a most loyal son. He had travelled 
extensively in both Europe and America, was 
a man of powerful physique, and took a great 
interest in athletic sports. In his religious 
belief he was a member of the Church of Eng- 
land, and for many years was a Vestryman of 
the "Stone Church," in the affairs of which 
he took a deep interest and leading part up 
till the time of his death. 



T^OLONEL EDWIN BOND BEER, a 

I JT leading citizen of Sussex, N.B. , was 
^ — ^ born in Sussex on May 25, 1833, 
son of Thomas Beer, who was a native of 
Devonshire, England, born August 18, 1777. 
As a boy of thirteen Thomas Beer enlisted 
as a cadet in the royal navy, and in time he 
rose to the rank of Commander. For many 
years he was in the coast guard, and during 
the war between England and the United 
States, 1 812-18 14, was stationed in New 
Brunswick. Here he met his wife, whom he 
married in 181 5, and who accompanied him 
when he went back to England at the close 
of the war. Pier maiden name was Annie 



Leonard. She was born in St. John on July 
23, 1796, and was a daughter of the Hon. 
George Leonard, a sketch of whom appears on 
another page of this work. In 1829 Thomas 
Beer returned to America and settled in 
Sussex on the Leonard grant, where he lived 
until his death at the age of eighty years. 
Thomas Beer was an active and devoted mem- 
ber of the Church of England. I^e was the 
first president of the Sussex Agricultural So- 
ciety. Mrs. Annie L. Beer died on October 
I, 1 886. She was the mother of thirteen 
children; namely, Lucy Codner, Eleanor 
James, Annie Leonard, Thomas Hore, Caro- 
line, Maria Elizabeth, George Leonard, Lucy 
Maria, Elizabeth Evanson, Edwin Bond, 
Mary, William Henderson, and Jane Hope. 

The first named of these, Lucy, was born in 
Stoke Devon, England, and died in Bourborg 
in 1829. James, who was born April 11, 
181 8, at Falmouth, England, died in Sussex, 
N.B. , on February 20, 1899. Annie Leonard, 
who was born in Dock, England, on Septem- 
ber 12, 1 8 19, is the widow of the late Captain 
T. W. R. Pike, formerly officer of the survey 
ship "Columbia" of the royal navy, and set- 
tled at this station. Thomas Hore, who died 
in Liverpool, England, in 18S5, was born on 
September 29, 1821, at Broadstairs, Kent. 
He resided in Jamaica for a number of years, 
but in 1857 cam.e to New Brunswick, and the 
following year returned to England and en- 
gaged in business there. He married Annie 
Hope, a native of Devonshire, and she bore 
him several children, who survive him. Caro- 
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Whitstable, Kent, England, married R. S. 
Devever, of St. John, and resides in Brant- 
ford, Ont. Maria Elizabetli was born at 
Follvestone, Kent, on December 24, 1824, and 
died on July 25, 1825. George Leonard, who 
was born on May 23, 1826, at Middle Deal, 
died at sea. He was in the royal navy for 
some years, but subsequently left the service 
and went into the China trade. Lucy Maria, 
who resides in England, was born in France 
on August 26, 1829. She is the wife of Cap- 
tain Frederick Harvy of the British navy. 
Elizabeth Evanson was born at Sussex Vale 
on August 3, 183 1, and died at Campo Bello. 
Mary, who is the wife of C. J. Wilds, of 
Halifa.x, N,S., was born on September 7, 
1835. William Henderson Beer, who died in 
1896, was born on September 5, 1837, in 
Sussex Vale. He married Maria Schofield, a 
daughter of the Rev. Mr. Schofield. Jane 
Hope (now deceased) was born on April 11, 
1839. She married William M. Jarvis, of St. 
John. 

Edwin Bond Beer went to England at twelve 
years of age, and there attended the Royal 
Naval College at Greenwich for three years. In 
1848 he returned to New Brunswick, and the 
following year left for San Francisco on board 
the barque "Teal," commanded by Captain 
Gray. After two and a half years spent in 
California he went to Auckland, New Zea- 
land, and thence to Sydney, Australia, where 
he remained until September, 1857, when he 
returned to England. He arrived in St. John 
in January, 1858, and after a year's residence 
in that city he came to Sussex to take charge 



of the homestead estate. Since that time he 
has been engaged in farming. 

Colonel Beer was married in 1868 to Sarah 
Hogg, of Newcastle. She died in giving 
birth to her son, Edwin Leonard, who was 
born in June, 1S70, and is now in British Co- 
lumbia. Prior to 1898 Edwin L. Beer was 
employed in the Bank of Montreal. In 1S63 
Colonel Beer joined the militia, forming a 
compan}' of which he was Captain. He was 
subsequently Major of the Second Battalion 
of Kings County, and in 1866 Lieutenant 
Colonel. After the confederation he was ap- 
pointed Lieutenant Colonel from Kings 
County, and in 1868 he joined the Eighth 
Regiment of Cavalry. In 1S70 he took com- 
mand of the Seventy-fourth Battalion. In 
1S97 he resigned his commission. 

Colonel Beer is a member of the Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows. From 1871 to 
1885 and again from 1893 to 1895 he was 
Warden in the Church of England. He has 
served as chorister for a number of years. He 
was one of the organizers of the Provincial 
Rifle Association and in 1897 its president. 
He also assisted in organizing the Dominion 
Rifle Association, and commanded the Wim- 
bledon team in 1878. He is at the present 
time its vice-president. 



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HARLES EDWARD HARDING, a 

retired lumber dealer of St. John, 

was born in that city, November 



21, 1 8 19, son of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) 
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Harding, a Loyalist who came from the States 
to New Brunswick in 1783. 

Thomas Harding, the father, was born Feb- 
ruary 17, 17S6, in St. John, where he fol- 
lowed the trade of a tanner throughout the 
active period of his life. He was closely 
identified with local jniblic affairs, his mem- 
bership of the Board of Aldermen extending 
over a period of forty-five years ; and he served 
with ability as Mayor of the city. Mrs. Mary 
Johnson Harding, his wife, was born October 
5, 1785. She was a daughter of George John- 
son, of Horton, N.S., and on the maternal 
side was a representative of the Cleveland 
family, which was noted for its longevity. 
The average age of her uncles and aunts was 
eighty-one years and eight months, and her 
mother lived to be one hundred and one years 
old. Thomas and Mary Harding were the 
parents of eleven children, namely: George 
Johnson Harding, M.D., who was born Au- 
gust 8, 1808, and practised his profession in 
St. John for many years; Mary Elizabeth, 
born May 2, iSio, who married Robert 
Taylor, a native of England, and died January 
19, 1895; Thomas, born February 29, 18 12, 
who was a tanner in St. John during his ac- 
tive years, and died April 7, 1859; William 
Harding, M.D., born January 18, 18 14, now 
living in retirement in St. John; Valentine 
John, born March 4, 18 16, who is now resid- 
ing in Hardingville, N.B. ; John Henry, born 
January 2, 1818; Charles Edward, the subject 
of this sketch; Jesse Giles, born October 20, 
1821; Harriet L., born November 17, 1823, 
who died September 30, 1895; Leah, born 



May 21, 1826; and Sarah, both of whom died 
in infancy. The father died April 7, 1854, 
and the mother, who lived to be eighty-nine 
years old, died April 19, 1875. 

Charles Edward Harding was educated in 
St. John and at the Horton Academy, Nova 
Scotia. When a young man he engaged in 
carpentering, which he followed for five years. 
He then learned to survey lumber, and for 
thirty years was City Surveyor. For eight 
years he was superintendent for N. S. de Mill ; 
and after the death of the latter he estab- 
lished the lumber firm of C. E. Harding & 
Son, with which he continued until his retire- 
ment in i8g6. 

Mr. Harding was married October 19, 
1843, to Miss Susan Elizabeth Lawrence, 
daughter of Richard Lawrence, a native of 
Staten Island, N.Y. , and a Loyalist, who 
came to New Brunswick some time after the 
American Revolution. Her grandfather was 
Colonel Richard Lawrence, of the British 
army, who after the close of hostilities was 
arrested by the American authorities as an 
employee of King George HI. The demand 
for his release by the British government was 
eventually complied with; and, going to Eng- 
land, he died in Nottingham, May 25, 1789. 
His son Richard, born 1764, died 1846, 
who was engaged in ship-building in St. 
John, was married in 18 10 to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Captain Joseph Mercer. Of the 
nine children born of this union, Susan Eliza- 
beth, who is now Mrs. Harding, is the only 
one living. 

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eleven children, namely: Elizabeth, wife of 
Henry M. Beckwith; Olivia, widow of John 
H, Harding; Susan, widow of Charles A. 
Plummer, late of Gagetovvn, N.B. ; Annetta, 
who married Henry Coy, of the same place; 
Charles E., Jr., who succeeded his father in 
business; Eanny, wife of James E. Coy, also 
of Gagetown; Thomas H., surveyor of lumber 
in St. John; William L., merchant in Yar- 
mouth, N.S.; Minna Lawrence; Georgia, 
wife of W. F. B. Patterson, of St. John ; and 
Frank Earle Harding. 



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H.BERT WILLIAM VAN WART, 
\[^J. a widely known dry-goods merchant 
of Woodstock, N.B., was born in Hampstead, 
Queens County, N. B., October 29, 1832, a 
son of Isaac Van Wart. He comes of thrifty 
Dutch stock, his paternal ancestors having 
emigrated from Holland to New York in 
Colonial times. His grandfather, Isaac Van 
Wart, Sr., was born on Long Island, N.Y. , 
and there spent his early years. In 1783 he 
came with the colony of Loyalists to New 
Brunswick, and having settled in Wickham, 
Queens County, devoted his attention during 
the remainder of his life to tilling the soil. 

Isaac Van Wart was born in Wickham, 
N.B., March 17, 1S02. Until attaining his 
majority he lived at the parental homestead, 
assisting his father in farm work. Removing 
then to the neighboring town of Hampstead, 
he carried on general farming on his own ac- 
count for many years, owning and improving 
an extensive farm. In 1854 he retired from 



active pursuits, and thenceforward he made 
his home in Woodstock until his decease. 
He married Catherine Clarke, of Hampstead, 
by whom he had five children, as follows: 
Eleanor, wife of Leonard G. Slipp, of the 
parish of Woodstock; Deborah, deceased, who 
was the wife of Ezra Brundage, of Greenwich, 
Kings County, N.B. ; Frances, wife of Thomas 
Durgan, of Bridgewater Centre, Me. ; Gilbert 
William; and Mary Elizabeth, wife of Samuel 
L. Churchill, of Butte City, Mont. Both 
parents were members of the Free Baptist 
church. 

Gilbert W. Van Wart acquired his early 
education in the common schools of Hamp- 
stead, and during his younger days became 
thoroughly acquainted with the practical de- 
tails of farming. P'rom 1854, when his 
father left the home farm, until 1857 he 
lived with his brother-in-law, L. G. Slipp. 
Embarking then in mercantile business, he 
formed a partnership with William Stephen- 
son, as head of the firm of Van Wart & 
Stephenson, which for five years had a large 
trade in general merchandise. In 1862 he 
bought out the interest of the junior partner, 
and from that time until the present day has 
continued alone. He formerly carried dry 
goods, groceries, and both ready-made and 
custom-made clothing; but, having gradually 
reduced his assortment, he now deals in dry 
goods only. In the earlier part of his career 
he also had an extensive wholesale trade, fur- 
nishing goods to the greater number of the 
dealers up the St. John River. For several 
years Mr. Van Wart, in addition to his other 



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business, was agent of three express com- 
panies, and also did private banking, there 
being at tliat time no organized bank in 
Woodstock. He acted as agent for the St. 
Stephen Bank of St. Stephen, by circulating 
their notes, as he, being a private banker, was 
not allowed to use notes of his own. In 1880 
he assumed the agency of the Maritime Bank 
of the Dominion of Canada, and continued its 
agency until the bank went out of existence. 

Mr. Van Wart married Phoebe, daughter of 
Roberson Merritt, of Hampstead, N. B. Of 
the five children that blessed their union three 
are now living, namely: Gertrude Ella, wife 
of John Norman W. Winslow, Esq., of Wood- 
stock; Aurilla, wife of Jarvis S. Stinson, of 
Boston, Mass. ; and Annie Mabel, who mar- 
ried George H. Harrison, superintendent of 
the high school of Woodstock, N. B. Mr. 
Van Wart is a Liberal in politics. He has 
served four terms in the Town Council, and 
has been one of the School Trustees ever since 
the free-school system was adopted. He be- 
longs to Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M. , and 
is a member of the Free Baptist church. 




ILLIAM BRYDONE JACK, M.A., 
D.C.L., late president of the Uni- 
versity of New Brunswick, died at his home in 
I'redericton, November 23, 1886, passing 
away on the si.xty-seventh anniversary of his 
birth. He was born in the parish of Tinwald, 
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, November 23, 1819, 
and came of honored ancestry. He was pre- 
pared for college at Hutton Hall Academy in 



Caerlaverock, and in 1835 entered the united 
college of St. Salvator and St. Leonard's. He 
was accounted a brilliant scholar, and while in 
that institution led his class in mathematics 
and physics, taking the highest prizes in both 
those studies. He graduated with the degree 
of Master of Arts in St. Andrew's University, 
Fifeshire, in 1840, and soon after had two de- 
sirable positions offered him, one in Manches- 
ter New College, Manchester, England, to 
succeed the noted Dr. Dalton as professor of 
physics, and the other that of professor of 
mathematics, natural jDhilosophy, and astron- 
omy in King's College, now the University of 
New Brunswick, Fredericton. Several of his 
warm friends, among them Sir David Brewster, 
one of his former teachers, then principal of 
St. Andrew's College, feared that the duties 
and responsibilities of the New College would 
be too arduous for one so inexperienced, and 
advised him to accept the chair in King's Col- 
lege, which he did in September, 1840. 

King's College, as the University was then 
named, was under the control of the Church of 
England, and was but little patronized by 
members of other religious bodies, nor was the 
general public in entire sympathy with its 
management. During the years that followed 
various attacks were made upon the institution 
by the Legislature and other bodies interested 
in advanced education for the youth of this 
province; and after much contention it was 
remodelled in i860, and its name changed to 
the University of New Brunswick. Since 
then all denominations are represented in its 
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dent of the University in 1861, and tliereafter 
administered its affairs with wisdom. During 
the vacations he travelled extensively in the 
province, and by public addresses and personal 
interviews with men of influence brought the 
college into prominent notice and advanced its 
claims as an educational institution of the 
highest order. He became well known as an 
educator, and on the inauguration of the free 
school system was made, ex officio, a member of 
the Board of Education. In 1885, after serv- 
ing forty-five consecutive years as a professor 
and fourteen years as president of the Univer- 
sity, he severed his connection with it, resign- 
ing the presidency on account of failing 
health, and was retired with a pension of one 
thousand dollars a year. 

Dr. Jack, however, never lost interest in the 
college, and in 1886 was appointed by the 
eovernment a member of the senate of the Uni- 
versify, a place which he occupied at the time 
of his death. The degree of Doctor of Civil 
Law was conferred upon him by this Univer- 
sity in 1855. A thorough .student of all 
sciences, he was specially interested in astron- 
omy, and was among the first to make use of 
telegraphy in determining distances of longi- 
tude. By connection with the Harvard Obser- 
vatory at Cambridge, Mass., he ascertained the 
true longitude of Fredcricton, and, taking this 
longitude as a basis, found, at the expense and 
for the benefit of the local government, the 
longitude of St. John and of \'arious places on 
the boundary lines of the province. He was 
thus of great service to Sir William Logan in 
his construction of the geological map of Can- 



ada. Dr. Jack was a Fellow of the Royal 
Astronomical Society of London, England, 
and of the Athenasum of New Brunswick. 

Dr. Jack was twice married, and by his first 
wife, Marian Ellen, youngest daughter of At- 
torney-General Peters, had eight children, two 
of whom are living. In 1859 he married 
Caroline, daughter of Noah Disbrowe, a Jus- 
tice of Peace and a former merchant of St. 
John. Mrs. Jack, who is still living, comes 
of distinguished stock, the Disbrowes having 
been early settlers of Norwalk, Conn., and 
people of considerable means. In former days 
they were slaveholders. In 1783 they re- 
moved with the colony of Loyalists to New 
Brunswick, and here became identified with 
the best interests of the province. Noah Dis- 
browe was a magistrate at the time of his 
death. Although not a member of any relig- 
ious organization, he was a good Christian. 
He reared three sons, two of whom were or- 
dained clergymen of the Church of England. 
Mrs. Jack has one daughter, Mrs. Lewis D. 
Millcdge, of St. John, and four sons. Two of 
the sons are residents of British Columbia, one 
being a physician in Vancouver and one a law- 
yer. A third, now deceased, was an engineer. 
The fourth son, also an engineer, is located in 
the United States. 



TrX AVID TAPLEY, late Police Magis- 

I ~^r\ trate and Judge of the Civil Court, 

c"*"^ Portland, was born in Sheffield, 

Sunlniry County, N. B. , April 12, 1820, son 

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was descended from James Robert Tapley, a 
mariner and Loyalist, vvlio was a native of 
Providence, R.I. While in Corlv, Ireland, 
James Robert Tapley married a Miss O'Brien, 
who was a grand-daughter of a lord. He 
came to New Brunswick with his bride, and 
settled upon a tract of land in Sunbury 
County, where he was engaged in farming for 
the rest of his life. He died at the age of 
forty-five, and his wife survived him many 
years. He was the father of six children; 
namely, William, John, David, Ann, Mary, 
and James. 

David Tapley, Sr. , Judge Tapley's father, 
was born in Sunbury County in 1791. In 
early life he was a farmer, but, moving to 
St. John in 1847, he there carried on a lum,- 
ber business until his death, which occurred 
November 30, i86g. He was a firm believer 
in total abstinence. He married Hannah 
Fletcher, a native of Nova Scotia, and was 
the father of nine children, namely: David, 
the subject of this sketch; John, a lumber- 
man, who died in St. John, February 16, 
1S93; Mary, who died at the age of fifteen 
years; Robert, who went to Australia in 
1853, and is now living in New Zealand; 
Archibald and Daniel F. , who are prominent 
businessmen of St. John; Hannah, widow of 
Shadrach Holly; Ann, widow of George F. 
Brown, who died August i, 1897; and Eliza- 
beth, who is unmarried. The mother died in 
1866. 

David Tapley, the subject of this sketch, 
acquired his education in the common schools. 
He worked upon a farm until of age, when he 



moved to St. John and engaged in surveying 
and the general lumber business. He contin- 
ued in these employments until 1856, when 
he was elected to the Legislature from Sunbury 
County. He was re-elected the following- 
year, and served as a member for that county 
continuously until 1861. He was the author 
of the bill reducing the number of the jury in 
civil cases in the Supreme Court from twelve 
to seven men. After the expiration of his 
second term he was repeatedly solicited to be 
a candidate for re-election, but declined. He 
remained on his farm in Sunbury County 
three years, at the end of which time he ac- 
cepted the appointments of Police Magistrate 
and Judge of the Civil Court, Portland. 
These ofifices he filled with marked ability. 
In 1876 he began the study of law, and, hav- 
ing passed a creditable examination, he was 
admitted to the bar in October, 1880. In 
politics he supported the Liberal party. He 
was made a Mason in Union Lodge, St. John, 
and was a Knight Templar. He was a mem- 
ber of the Church of England and a Vestry- 
man of St. Luke's Church, Portland (now a 
part of St. John), and was held in high esteem 
by all who knew him. He died July 18, 
1895. 

On November 19, 1841, Judge Tapley was 
united in marriage with Miss Margaret Ann 
Dalton, daughter of Samuel Dalton. He was 
the father of seven children, of whom two 
sons survive: Frederick, of St. John; and 
Horace, who married Cora Reynolds, of St. 
John, has three children, and resides in 
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in St. John, October i6, 1846. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of St. John and at 
Oromocto. In 1870 he entered the office of 
the Intercolonial Railroad Company, St. 
John, and is now freight agent. He is a 
member of Albion Lodge, No. i, F. & A. M. ; 
and New Brunswick Lodge, Knights of Pyth- 
ias. He attends St. Luke's Church. On 
June 3, 1874, he married Miss Mary Eliza- 
beth Barnhill, daughter of Alexander Barn- 
hill. They have five children — Ella Mc- 
Nutt, Frederick Bryan, William Gu}', Mar- 
gueretta, and Alexander Barnhill Tapley. 



/3)eORGE NELSON PEARSON, M.D., 
\J^J_ the well-known physician and sur- 
geon of Sussex, was born in Kings County on 
September 4, 1857, his parents being George 
and Eliza Ruth (Secord) Pearson. His pa- 
ternal grandfather was Thomas Pearson, who 
was a native of Cumberland, England, and 
was engaged there as a coal merchant. He 
married a Miss Heaviside, and in 1823 came 
with her and their family to New Brunswick, 
and settled on a farm in Studholm, then a 
part of Sussex parish, where he carried on an 
extensive farming business. He died at the 
age of eighty-two years. His wife, who sur- 
vived him several years, died also at the age 
of eighty-two. Their children were: John; 
Thomas; Joseph; William; Elizabeth, who 
married Walter Murray; Richard; James; 
Ann, who married David Murry; Isaac; and 
Cieorge. Of these George is the only sur- 
vivor. Born in 1821, he was reared on the 



farm, and at one time engaged quite exten- 
sively in lumbering. His wife, the mother of 
Dr. Pearson, was born in Studholm, her father 
being James Secord, son of William Secord, 
a Loyalist from New York, who settled in 
Greenwick, N. B. , in 1783, and her mother, 
whose maiden name was Ann Sharp, being 
the daughter of Robert Sharp, also a Loyalist 
from New York, 1783. The following chil- 
dren were born to George and Eliza Ruth 
Pearscn; J. T. H., who resides on the old 
homestead; Bessie A., wife of Andrew L. 
Adair, of Studholm; John H., who was for 
some years a merchant in Spencer, Mass., 
and who died at the age of thirty-eight; 
George N., the subject of this sketch; Mary 
A. ; Emma M., now deceased, formerly the 
wife of Arthur Rankin; Alice R. , a trained 
nurse at Newton, Mass.; Albert E. , who is a 
teacher by profession; and Ida J., wife of 
James H. Manchester, of Studholm. Mr. 
Pearson resides on the Pearson farm, and is 
one of the representative men of his section. 
His wife died in 1894. 

Dr. Pearson grew up on the farm, and dur- 
ing his boyhood attended the common schools. 
He subsequently entered the normal school, 
and, after pursuing a course of stud}' there, he 
taught school for several years, meeting with 
excellent success. He began the study of his 
present profession with Dr. James H. Gray, 
now of I'airville, N. B. , continued his studies 
with the late Dr. Charles A. Murray, of Stud- 
holm, and after two years under their tutelage 
entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
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from that institution, and in 1S91 he began 
the practice of medicine in Apohaqui, N.B. 
In 1893 he came to Sussex to succeed the late 
Dr. Raymond, and he has since practised here 
most successfully. 

The Doctor was married in 1886 to Jennie 
T. , daughter of the late Charles Secord, of 
Sussex. He is a member of the Kings 
County Medical Society, of the New Bruns- 
wick Medical Society, and of tlie Maritime 
Medical Society; also of the Masonic frater- 
nity and of the Independent Order of Fores- 
ters. He is chairman of the Liberal Conserv- 
ative Association for the parish of Sussex. 
While a student in the normal school, the 
Doctor was awarded the Lansdown Senior 
medal. 




DWARD T. C. KNOWLES, barrister, 
St. John, was born on January 26, 
1850, son of Edward T. and Phoebe J. (Ches- 
ley) Knowles. His father was born in New- 
port, N. S. , January 5, 1804. His grand- 
father, Henry Knowles, was born in P'almouth, 
N. S. , in 1777; and his great-grandfather, also 
named Henry Knowles, was born in Newport, 
R. I., in 1720. Henry Knowles, Sr., who 
went from Rhode Island to Newport, N.S. , in 
1760, married Molly Williams, of Hartford, 
Conn., and his children were: William, 
Nathan, Sarah, Henry, and Martha. Sarah 
married Joshua Smith, and Martha married 
Daniel Eaton, a sea captain. 

Henry Knowles, Jr., who was a prosperous 
farmer of Newport, N.S. , married Grace 



Church, daughter of Edward and Mary (Shaw) 
Church. The latter was a daughter of Arnold 
Shaw, and both the Churches and Shaws were 
among the party which went from Rhode 
Island to Nova Scotia in 1760. The grand- 
father died in Falmouth in August, 1822, and 
the grandmother died in Newport in Novem- 
ber, 1S24. They had a family of eight chil- 
dren; namely, Edward T. , Mary, Martha S., 
William C, Alexander, Phcebe E. , Sarah R., 
and James S. Mary married Samuel Godfrey, 
and died in Albert County, New Brunswick. 
Martha S. married Henry Northrup, and died 
in New York City. William. C. died in Blue 
Hill, Me. Alexander died while young. 
Phoebe E. married Mark Rathbun, and died in 
Fredericton, N.B. Sarah R. married James 
Dotten, and died at Westport, Conn., in 1893. 
James S. died in the United States during the 
Civil War. 

P^dward T. Knowles, Edward T. C. 
Knowles's father, entered mercantile business 
as a clerk in a store at Granville, N..S., when 
a young man, and first came to St. John in 
1824. He was employed here as a clerk until 
going to P'redericton, where he was similarly 
engaged. Returning to this city in 1836, he 
established the firm of Knowles & Thorne, 
dealers in West India goods on South Wharf, 
and became interested in shipping. That 
concern, whose warehouse was burned out in 
1837 and again in 1839, was dissolved after 
a prosperous existence of several years, and 
Mr. Knowles continued in business alone. 
At the time of his death, which occurred in 
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John's Lodge, F. & A. M., though not ac- 
tively associated with the lodge. He took an 
active interest in religious matters, and was 
one of the first trustees of the Centenary 
(Methodist) Church. 

On April 23, 1834, Edward T. Knowles 
married for his first wife Mrs. Sibyl Hall, 
born Thorne, daughter of James Thorne, of 
Granville. She was the widow of Captain 
Moses Hall, by whom she had one daughter, 
Elizabeth P., who married John H. Foster, of 
St. John. By her second marriage she had 
four children; namely, Joseph S. , Edward T. , 
Anna Sneden, and Jane Hall. Anna Sneden 
married the late Stephen J. King, Post-office 
Inspector, and had seven children, three of 
whom are living — Anna A., Allen G., and 
Sibelle. The others were: Stanley, Helen, 
George T., and Josephine. Edward T. and 
Jane Hall died in infancy. Joseph S. 
Knowles, who was born in Granville in 1S35, 
completed his education at the Sackville 
Academy, and from 1S58 to 1877 was in the 
service of the St. John Gaslight Company. 
Turning his attention to journalism, he pub- 
lislied for some time a literary paper called 
the Torch. He was subsequently connected 
with other papers, and in 1888 he became as- 
sociated with W. K. Reynolds in establishing 
the Gripsack, which is devoted to the inter- 
ests of trade and commercial travellers. On 
the withdrawal of Mr. Reynolds in 1892 to 
take the editorship of Progress, Mr. Joseph S. 
Knowles took the entire charge of the paper, 
which he is now carrying on. Me belongs to 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is 



an active member of the Centenary Church. 
In February, 1887, Joseph .S. Knowles mar- 
ried Emma N. Noble, daughter of Robert J. 
Noble, of Halifa.x. They have four children 
living — Sibyl T. , Emily S., Kathleen A., 
and Robert E. Another child died in in- 
fancy. Edward T. Knowles's first wife died, 
and in December, 1848, he married Phoebe J. 
Chesley, daughter of Samuel Chesley, Jr., 
who was the first English male child born in 
Granville, N. S. , being a son of Samuel Ches- 
ley, who assisted in laying out that township. 
Of this union was born one child, Edward 
T. C, whose personal history is given below. 
Edward T. Knowles's second wife died in 
1850, and in the following year he married for 
his third wife Ethelinda A. Busby, daughter 
of the Rev. Sampson Busby, a Methodist min- 
ister. Her mother, who was before marriage 
Maria Byard, was a native of Nova Scotia. 

Having acquired his early education in the 
St. John public schools, Edward T. C. 
Knowles pursued his law studies in the office 
of Messrs. Morrison & King. He was ad- 
mitted as an attorney in 1871 and as a barris- 
ter the following year. For over twenty-five 
years he has transacted a general law business. 
He has taken some interest in public affairs, 
and served in the Common Council for two 
years. 

In 1888 Mr. Knowles was joined in mar- 
riage with Mary II. Thorne, daughter of 
Richanl W. and a grand-daughter of James 
Thorne. lie belongs to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, and the Temple of Honor. 




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He attends the Centenary Church, and is a 
member of the Board of Trustees. 



M 



ANIEL F. TAPLEY, of the firm of 
Tapley Brothers, steamboat owners 
and lumber manufacturers, St. John, 
was born in Sheffield, Sunbury County, N. B., 
May 19, 1 83 1, son of David and Hannah 
(Fletcher) Tapley. For ancestral history see 
sketch of Tapley famih'. 

Daniel F. Tapley resided upon the home- 
stead farm in Sheffield until he was sixteen 
years old, when he accompanied his parents to 
St. John. He was with his brother David in 
the lumber business from about 1847 to 1854, 
when he became part owner and master of a 
tug-boat, which he ran for twelve years. In 
1866 John, Archibald, and Daniel F. Tapley 
organized the firm of Tapley Brothers for the 
purpose of carrying on the tug-boat and lumber 
business. The three continued in partnership 
until the death of John Tapley in 1893, since 
which time the remaining two have conducted 
the enterprise; and, besides handling large 
quantities of lumber, they operate six boats. 

In 1856 Mr. Tapley married Eleanor Ann 
Brown, who was born in Sunbury County, New 
Brunswick, daughter of John S. Brown, a na- 
tive of Sunbury County, at that time there en- 
gaged in lumbering and farming. At a later 
date Mr. Brown removed to St. John, where for 
many years he was a lumberman and surveyor. 
Mrs. Tapley has had eleven children, three of 
whom, James Robert, Avilda, and Eliza K., 
died in infancy. The living are : Dora, wife 



of George G. Davis, of Point Wolf, Albert 
County, N. B. ; Fenwick VV., who is with the 
Tapley Brothers; Nellie K., wife of Charles 
McDonald, of St. John ; Lewis, who married 
Catherine Florence Gately, and resides in Bos- 
ton; Mary F. ; Ada G. ; Alice P. ; and Daniel 
F. , Jr. P^'uwick W. Tapley married Emma 
Brannan, daughter of Captain Charles Brannan. 
Mr. Tapley, like his father, is a total ab- 
stainer from the use of alcoholic stimulants, 
and is an earnest advocate of temperance. 




NDREW H. JONES, of Moncton, 
N. B., is a young man of excellent 
business qualifications, possessing 
in a large measure the keenness and foresight 
that are sure to win success in any field of 
labor. He was born in Moncton, May i, 
1866, a son of Oliver and Elizabeth J. (l^eer) 
Jones. P^urther ancestral history may be 
found in connection with the sketch of his 
father, Oliver Jones, on another page of this 
biographical work. 

Mr. Jones, having completed his education 
at the Baptist Seminary in St. John, N.li., 
worked for a number of years in the wholesale 
dry-goods establishment of Manchester & 
Allison in that city. Returning in i8go to 
Moncton, he assumed the charge of his 
father's many enterprises, and at the same 
time opened a book and periodical store. The 
store he conducted most successfully until 
1894, when he sold out to his brother, 
Middleton 1^. Jones, in order that he might 
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father's business operations, which he still 
manages with ability. 

Mr. Jones married Emma J., daughter of 
Captain Ambrose Snow, of Smithtown, N. B., 
and they have two children, namely: Reginald 
H., born April 13, 1894; and Stanley S., 
born December 30, 1895. In politics Mr. 
Jones is a Liberal. lioth he and his wife 
are members of the Baptist church. 




LIVER J0N1':S, a venerable and re- 
spected citizen of Moncton, N.B., 
has been the leading spirit in the de- 
velopment of the real estate business of the 
town and the promoter of many of the indus- 
trial enterprises that have steadily contributed 
to its growth and prosperity. He was born in 
Petitcodiac, N.B. , December 15, 1821, a son 
of Jacob and Hannah (Corey) Jones, being the 
seventh child in a family of nine boys and 
girls, of whom but one beside himself is now 
living — namely, his brother, Malcolm Jones. 
But little is known of his grandfather, Henry 
Jones, who was engaged in agricultural pur- 
suits in the Province of New Brunswick dur- 
ing his entire life. 

Mr. Jones first made his appearance in 
Moncton when a lad of eight years, coming 
to "the Bend," as the place was then called, 
to spend a year with his elder sister, Mrs. 
Bennett, the mother of Mrs. C. B. Record 
and Mrs. J. DeWolf Spurr. He distinctly 
remembers the existing conditions of that 
period, when, among the nine or ten buildings 
which safely housed the entire population, the 



one erected by Christian Trites on the river 
bank, near the railway machine shops, was the 
only one made of brick. At the end of the 
year, in 1830, he returned to Petitcodiac, 
where he remained until 1839, when he set- 
tled permanently in Moncton. He found that 
"the Bend" had grown to some extent in his 
absence, although all the buildings, including 
the stores as well as the residences, were 
grouped on Steadman, Pleasant, Duke, and 
Main Streets, while, with the exception of 
an occasional opening, the entire west end of 
the town was in its original wildness, a part 
of it being a vast swamp. Wild game was 
abundant in the forest, and the local sportsmen 
found keen enjoyment along the river's edge, 
in the swamp, and in the woods. 

Very soon after coming here Mr. Jones 
made his first purchase of real estate by in- 
vesting one thousand dollars in the Crook- 
shank and Walker property, which contained 
four acres of land extending from Main Street 
to the river, and including the landing-place, 
the store, and the old Moncton Hotel, which 
is still standing. The price, a fair one, 
which then seemed enormous, would now 
scarce buy a frontage of fifteen feet in that 
section of the city. Mr. Jones conducted the 
hotel for a few years in company with Mr. 
James Dunlap, keeping a bar, as was then cus- 
tomary in all i)ublic houses, the selling of 
liquor being as legitimate a trade as dealing 
in groceries or dry goods. In 1S41 he sold 
out to his partner, and turned his attention to 
trading and speculating both in lands and 
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place of the old landing' above referred to, 
employing Captain Babineau to do the exca- 
vating, and Timothy Gallagher the wood 
\vork, the entire cost being four hundred 
dollars. 

In 1848, having made some money by 
former speculations, Mr. Jones made his first 
large purchase of realty by buying from the 
late John Trites eight hundred acres of land 
that had originally belonged to the very first 
settlers of the town, and embraced a large part 
of the middle and west end, extending from 
the river on the south to the creek at the 
foot of the Stephen Humphrey homestead on 
the north. Owing to the depredations of the 
grubs, which had eaten the grass from the 
marshes for two successive seasons, IMr. Trites 
had failed to receive any income from the 
land; and he offered the entire tract, subject 
to a mortgage of seven hundred pounds, for 
two thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds, 
with a margin of sixteen years to make the 
payments. Going then to the late Lieuten- 
ant Governor (then Mr.) Chandler, the mort- 
gagee, Mr. Jones explained to him the condi- 
tions, and, having made satisfactory terms 
with him regarding the payment, set to work 
improving the property. The very first year 
after taking possession he received one thou- 
sand dollars for the hay he raised on it, and 
the people who had predicted his financial 
ruin began to change their minds. Clearing 
a space in the forest, he built a frame house, 
which he occupied until the completion of his 
present commodious residence. Neighbors 
assisted him in removing the trees and grad- 



ing the ground, among them being Abner 
Jones, Robert Wilson, Mr. West, Christian 
and Reuben Steeves; and old Mr. Flooks and 
Gesner Harris did the carpentering. Of all 
these people, once prominent at "the Bend," 
not one is now living. 

A few years later, perhaps forty years ago, 
Mr. Jones, while quite sick with malarial 
fever, set a gang of men to work, under the 
supervision of the late Montgomery Stewart, 
on the opening of Highfield, Bonaccord, 
High, and other streets in that locality to the 
Mountain Road. The prospect of the land in 
that vicinity ever being required for building 
purposes was then very dubious, and people 
said that Mr. Jones's illness had affected his 
mind, otherwise he would never have con- 
ceived such a project. The opening of the 
streets, however, proved of inestim.able bene- 
fit, the draining of the swamp making the 
land available for farming; and his subse- 
quent sales of land have proved the wisdom of 
his daring venture. He was for several years 
associated with many of the most extensive 
real estate transactions of Moncton, having 
always been ready to sell on a rising market, 
but is not now a very large holder of land, 
though he is indirectly interested in many es- 
tates. 

Mr. Jones has also been identified with 
many other enterprises of value to the town. 
In i860 he began the manufacture of a soap 
which acquired a wide reputation for its su- 
perior qualities and at the Sussex exhibition 
won the first prize. He afterward established 
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by the late VV. S. Torrey for a number of 
years. He was also the prime mover in the 
establishment of the Westmorland Bank; and 
he accompanied the late Patrick King to St. 
John to secure the thirty thousand dollars in 
gold with which the bank was capitalized, 
going just after a heavy freshet, when the 
roads were so flooded that, but' for the careful- 
ness of the driver and Mr. Jones's precaution 
to have the box containing the money fastened 
into the wagon with a heavy cord, the gold 
would have been lost in the mighty torrent of 
waters. 

In 1862, after the disastrous failure of the 
Salters, extensive ship-builders, Mr. Jones, 
in order to protect himself, continued the in- 
dustry for a while on his own account, being 
associated with the late Governor Chandler. 
Employing W. H. T. Sumner, Abner Jones, 
and A. McKay as builders, he and his asso- 
ciates in the short space of a year and a half 
had completed three twelve-hundred-ton ships, 
the "John Bunyan," the "Elizabeth Kate," 
and the "Excelsior," and also three smaller 
vessels. After retiring from the ship-build- 
ing business Mr. Jones devoted himself al- 
most entirely to private banking and money 
loaning, carrying on a very successful finan- 
cial business until relieved from care and 
worry by liis son, Andrew H. Jones, who now 
assumes all responsibilities connected with 
the various enterprises in which he is inter- 
ested. In politics he is indeisendent, and at 
one time served as Mayor of Moncton. In his 
religious belief he is a l^aptist. Me contributetl 
largely toward the building of the First l^ap- 



tist Church, and was subsequently a generous 
giver toward the erection of the edifice occu- 
pied by the Free Baptists. 

Mr. Jones first married Elizabeth Steeves, 
who bore him four children, of whom Dr. 
Lemuel F. Jones is the only survivor. By 
his second wife, Kate Simpson, he had six 
children, of whom but one is living, Emily 
A., wife of John S. Trites, of Sussex, N. B. 
Of his union with Elizabeth J. Beer, his pres- 
ent wife, eleven children have been born, and 
of these five are living, namely: Andrew H., 
of whom a brief sketch may be found else- 
where in this volume; Gurney R., who mar- 
ried Alice Price, and has three children — ■ 
Randolph, Nelly, and an infant son; Middle- 
ton B. , who married Clara McMurray, and 
has one child, Vernon. Bessie J. ; and Char- 
lotte O. Mrs. Jones is a member of the 
Methodist church. 




ILLIAM BARNHILL, of Fairville, 
was born at Truro, N. S. , March 6, 
1827. In May, 1847, he came to St. John 
and entered the employ of his eldest brother, 
Alexander Barnhill, lumberman, at the latter's 
mill at Pleasant Point, in which position he 
continued until February, 1868. On the 3d 
of February, 1868, with his wife and family 
and several relatives, he sailed from St. John 
in the barquentine "Helen," bound for 
Wanganui, New Zealand, intending to take 
up his residence there. After spending a few 
months in Wanganui, and visiting Welling- 
ton and several other of the then principal 




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business places of the colony, the entire party 
being disappointed with the business prospects 
and dissatisfied with the climate, returned to 
New Brunswick, arriving in St. John on De- 
cember 23, 1868. In March, 1869, Mr. Barn- 
hill entered into partnership with Mr. Will- 
iam H. Long, and acquired the Marble Cove 
Lumber Mill at the Falls St. John, N.B., 
which was enlarged and operated by the firm 
until the death of Mr. Long in 1S78. The 
business was thereafter continued by Mr. 
Barnhill and Mr. William H. Murray (who 
had for several years been a silent partner) 
until April, 1881, when Mr. Barnhill retired 
from active business and removed to Fairville 
in the parish of Lancaster, where he now re- 
sides. He retains his connection with sev- 
eral corporations, including the St. John Rail- 
way Company, of which he has for several 
years been a director, and is also interested in 
shipping. 

He married January 31, a.d. 1861, Mary 
E. , eldest daughter of George S. Baker, for 
many years a prominent lumberman and mill- 
owner of St. John (Newcomb's Genealogical 
Record). They have two sons: William 
Frederick Barnhill, of Fairville, lumberman, 
born December 14, 1861, now and for several 
years past one of the representatives for the 
parish of Lancaster in the Municipal Council 
of the city and county of St. John ; and Alex- 
ander Perley Barnhill, B. A. (Mt. A. '85), 
of St. John, barrister at law, born May 27, 
1863. 

The following record of the family is 
siven in the Historical and Genealog-ical 



Record compiled by Thomas Miller. Robert 
Barnhill, a native of Ireland but of Scotch 
descent, arrived at what is now known as 
McNabs Island, Halifax, N.S., October 9, 
1761, in the ship "Hopewell" from Donegal, 
Ireland. In the spring of 1762 he settled 
at Chiganois, N. S., and became one of the 
grantees of the township of Londonderry. 
John, eldest son of Robert, born in Ireland 
in 1730, and his wife, Letitia Deyarmond, 
were also passengers on the "Hopewell." 
Alexander, second son of John and Letitia, 
was born in 1765, and in 1787 married Alice, 
daughter of Robert and Esther Hunter. 
John, second, son of Alexander and Alice, 
was born August 5, 1791, and married in 1817 
the second daughter of William and Mary 
Joyce. They were the parents of four sons 
and three daughters. The sons were: Alex- 
ander Barnhill, of St. John, N. B., lumber- 
man; John Barnhill, of Toronto, Ont. , mer- 
chant; William Barnhill, of St. John, N. B. , 
lumberman; and Robert Barnhill, of Truro, 
N.S. , farmer. Of these, William Barnhill, 
the subject of the foregoing record, is the only 
one now living. 



/'^^TTdEON knight PRESCOTT, for 
V^J^ many years prominently identified 
with the lumber and real estate interests of 
New Brunswick, was born in Pennfield, Char- 
lotte County, N.B. , on the twelfth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1821. His mother's maiden name was 
.Sarah Knight. He followed the lumber busi- 
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from his fourteentli year until he was forty- 
five, when he retired with a competency and 
removed to St. John. Here he enjoyed the 
fruits of his labor, and invested to a consider- 
able extent in real estate. He spent much 
time in reading, and was remarkably well in- 
formed on all jDublic questions and live issues. 
He was a director in the old Commercial Bank, 
but led a quiet life after his retirement from 
business. 

Mr. Prescott first married a Miss Borth- 
wreth, who was born in Scotland. By her he 
had one daughter, who is now the widow of 
the late George Ritchie, of Halifax, N. S. 
The first Mrs. Prescott died in 1872; and Mr. 
Prescott was subsequently married to Miss 
Helen Maria Berryman, a daughter of the late 
John Berryman, of St. John. 

Mr. Prescott was an attendant of the Baptist 
church. His death occurred on April 19, 
1891. He was a man of large physique and 
fine appearance. Courteous and kindly, he 
won the respect and affection of all who knew 
him. 



'OHN E. Mclaughlin, a prominent 
dry-goods and clothing dealer of Wood- 
stock, N.B. , was born there, December 
13, 1849, a son of the late James McLaughlin. 
His paternal grandfather, John McLaughlin, 
was born in Ireland in the latter part of the 
last century, and until well along in life was 
a county surveyor in the old country. He 
was well educated, and a noted mathematician 
in his day. He emigrated with his family to 



New Brunswick, coming at the same time that 
his son James did, and for several years after- 
ward conducted a private school in Frederic- 
ton. While there he published problems in 
the local paper that the professors of the uni- 
versity could not solve, and later he published 
correct solutions of the same. 

James McLaughlin was born at Newtown- 
Limavadi, Ireland, in 1804. He received an 
excellent education, and followed the profes- 
sion of surveying until coming to New Bruns- 
wick. He settled in Queens County, where 
he taught school for a few years, and then 
came to Woodstock to assume the position of 
editor and manager of the TelegrapJi, which he 
ably managed for ten years. He subsequently 
taught school in Woodstock until he was ap- 
pointed School Inspector of the counties of 
York, Carleton, Sunbury, and Victoria, a posi- 
tion for which he was eminently fitted, and 
which he held until compelled on account of 
failing health to resign his arduous duties. 
Opening then a private school, he taught con- 
tinuously until his demise. A man of clear 
judgment and good executive ability, he was 
a trusted and influential citizen, and for sev- 
eral years prior to his death had acted as 
County Treasurer. Lie was a member of the 
Methodist church. He married Harriet Case, 
of Morris County, New Jersey, and of their 
three children two grew to mature years, 
namely: Harriet, deceased; and John E. 

John E. McLaughlin acquired a practical 
business education in the common schools of 
Woodstock, and then began his mercantile 
career as a clerk in the drj'-goods store. In 




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1876, soon after the death of his former em- 
ployer, Mr. McLaughlin, in company with 
R. B. Jones, purchased a dry-goods business, 
which they successfully conducted under the 
firm name of Jones & McLaughlin for three 
years. In 1879 Mr. McLaughlin bought the 
interest of his partner in the establishment, 
and has since carried on a very successful 
mercantile business alone, his trade in dry 
goods and clothing being extensive and profit- 
able. He is well known throughout the com- 
munity as a trustworthy citizen, not afraid to 
assume responsibility if called upon, although 
he has refused to accept a nomination for the 
ofifice of Mayor. He has been Town Clerk, 
was Town Assessor two years, and for twelve 
years was a member of the Town Council. 
He is a member of Woodstock Lodge, F. & 
A. M. ; is also a member of the Royal Ar- 
canum, Woodstock Council, No. 525, of which 
he is Past Master; and is treasurer of the 
Presbyterian church, of which he is a valued 
member. 

Mr. McLaughlin married Annie, daughter 
of Moody Maguire, of Woodstock; and of the 
six children that blessed their union five are 
now living, namely: Bessie; Harry; Roy and 
Guy, twins; and Anna M. 



(^OHN LEWIS PECK, a leading mer- 
chant of Hillsboro, Albert County, 
N. B., is a man of good business knowl- 
edge and practical ability, and is closely iden- 
tified with the financial interests of the town. 
He was born July 6, 1857, in the neighboring 



town of Hopewell, a son of Elisha Peck, who 
was the third in line of descent to bear that 
name. 

Elisha Peck, first, was born in the United 
States, where he resided until after the close 
of the Revolutionary War. Being an adherent 
of the Crown, he then removed with other 
Loyalists to New Brunswick, and, settling in 
Albert County, took up a tract of land nearly 
four miles in length, which included the pres- 
ent site of the village of Albert.' He was one 
of the largest landholders of the county, and 
became one of its foremost farmers. He 
reared eight children, Elisha being the name 
given to his second son. 

Elisha Peck, second, was born in Hope- 
well, where he engaged extensively in agri- 
cultural pursuits during his days of activity, 
and was also a large dealer in real estate in that 
vicinity. A wide-awake, energetic man, he 
took a deep interest in everything connected 
with local matters, and for years was Captain 
of the Volunteer Militia Company of Hope- 
well, and was also Justice of the Peace for a 
long time. In politics he was a Conserva- 
tive. He married Sarah, daughter of Na- 
thaniel Brewster. Eight of their children 
grew to adult life, and two — Judson N. and 
Charles A. — are yet living. Judson N. mar- 
ried Annie Turner, of Dorchester, N. B., and 
has five children — Albert, Elizabeth, George, 
John, and Jane. Of Charles A. a biographi- 
cal sketch may be found on another page of 
this volume. P]lisha Peck, second, and his 
wife were members of the Hopewell Baptist 
Church, and both lived to be well advanced in 



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years, she attaining the age of seventy-two 
and he that of eighty-seven. 

Their son, Elisha Peck, third, was born at 
the parental homestead in 1823, and there 
spent his entire life of sixty-six years, being 
engaged the greater part of the time in tilling 
the soil and in adding to the improvements 
already inangurated on the farm. He mar- 
ried Rebecca, daughter of John Lewis, of 
Hillsboro. She is now living on the home 
farm, an active woman of sixty-eight years. 
She is a member of the Baptist church, and in 
the daily walks of life endeavors to live up to 
its teachings. She bore her husband seven 
children: Alice, wife of William R. Peck, of 
Boston, Mass.; John Lewis; Charles L., who 
married Lucinda Mittons, of Coverdale, N.B., 
and has three children; William L. ; Annie 
R. ; Ida; and Mary E. 

John Lewis Peck attended school in Hope- 
well until he was fourteen years old, when he 
came to Hillsboro to live with his maternal 
grandfather, John Lewis, who was proprietor 
of a store of general merchandise. P3ntering 
the store as a clerk, he remained in that posi- 
tion fourteen years, obtaining a thorough 
knowledge of the business. His grandfather 
then took him into partnership, and the firm 
name became John Lewis &: Co. Four years 
later the senior member of the firm died. 
Mr. Peck has since continued the business 
alone, and has been very, successful. Being 
energetic and progressive, and well versed in 
finance, Mr. Peck established a private bank- 
ing concern in Hillsboro on November i, 
1897, and this he is conducting in conjunc- 



tion with his other interests. He is a hard- 
working man, self-made in every respect, 
owing his present prosperity entirely to his 
own enterprise and effort. Politically, he is 
a firm supporter of the Conservative princi- 
ples. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging 
to Howard Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. M., of 
Hillsboro, N. B., and is also a member of the 
A. O. F. of Hillsboro. 

Mr. Peck and Minnie F., daughter of Chip- 
man Bishop, of Hillsboro, were married on 
August 27, 1885, and they have three chil- 
dren — Mary B., George B., and Flora B. 
Mr. and Mrs, Peck are both members of the 
Baptist church. 




RTHUR B. MAC LEAN, of the A. B. 
Mac Lean Compan}', St. John, was 
born in Fredericton, N. B. , in 1857, 
son of Lauchlanand Sophia (Marsh) Mac Lean. 
His paternal grandfather was Captain John 
Mac Lean, a Scotchman who emigrated to New 
Brunswick and was one of the first settlers at 
Grand Lake, where he engaged in farming. 
Captain Mac Lean was a prominent man in 
that locality in his day, serving as a magis- 
trate for a number of years and as an officer in 
the militia. He lived to the advanced age of 
ninety-seven years. 

Lauchlan Mac Lean, Arthur B. Mac Lean's 
father, came to St. John when a young man, 
and engaged in the wholesale flour business, 
h'rom .St. John he went to Portland, Me., 
where he carried on a wholesale boot and shoe 
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swept away in the disastrous fire of 1866, 
which consumed the entire business portion of 
that city. Returning then to New Brunswick, 
he spent the rest of his life upon a farm in 
Sussex, Kings County. Lauchlan Mac Lean 
married Miss Marsh, daughter of tlie late John 
L. Marsh, of Fredericton. They had four 
children, namely : Colonel H. H. Mac Lean, 
barrister, St. John; Arthur B. , tlie subject of 
this sketch; Maud, who resides in Cambridge, 
Mass. ; and Charles Herbert, president and 
manager of the Merchants' Exchange, Toledo, 
Ohio. 

Arthur B. Mac Lean was educated in the 
schools of Fredericton, N. B., and Portland, 
Me. His business training was begun with 
J. S. Mayo, of Montreal, P.O.; and he later 
entered the employ of F. \V. Gregory & Co., 
Boston, with whom he remained until 1895. 
In that year he juuxhased their business in the 
Maritime Provinces, and established the A. B. 
Mac Lean Company, dealers in steamship, 
railway, and mill supplies, and proprietors of 
the "Excelsior " brand of marine engine and 
cylinder oils. They are also agents for the 
Boston Belting Company's rubber goods, the 
Knowles & Blake steam -pumps, and are carry- 
ing on an extensive business. This concern 
has branch offices in Boston and New York. 

Mr. Mac Lean married Alice Ganong, 
daughter of John E. Ganong, of St. John. Of 
this union were born two children — Sadie May 
and John Edward. The son died at the age of 
five years and six months. Mrs. Mac Lean 
died September ig, 1896. 

Although he has resided in St. John but 



a short time, Mr. Mac Lean has already be- 
come a prominent factor in the business inter- 
ests of the city, and is a member of the Board 
of Trade. He belongs to Albion Lodge, 
F. A. M. ; Carlton Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons; St. John Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar; and Kora Temple of the Mystic Shrine, 
Lewiston, Me. 



TTAHARLES W. GEORGE, a well-known 
V J| ^'""^ ^b^s agriculturist of Sackville, 

^ " N. B. , was born April 24, 1839, on 

the homestead where he now lives, and on 
which his widowed mother, Mrs. P21izabeth 
Fawcett George, has resided since the day of 
her birth, October 24, 18 10. Mr. George's 
father, the late James George, was born at 
a small hamlet on the St. John River, New 
Brunswick, being a son of Peter George, who 
was born and reared in Scotland. I'urther 
parental and ancestral history is given in con- 
nection with the sketch of William V. George, 
a brother of Charles W. , on another page of 
this work. 

Charles W. George was the third cliild and 
second son of the parental household. In com- 
mon with his brothers and sisters, he received 
an excellent education, being for some time a 
student in the Mount Allison Academy, Sack- 
ville. Becoming greatly interested in agri- 
cultural pursuits when he was young, he 
continued his residence at tlie old homestead, 
which was originally owned by his grandfather, 
William P'awcett ; and since the death of his 
father in 1882 he has liad its entire char£;e. 



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His farm, which is well improved and well 
stocked, contains about sixty acres of upland, 
a large tract of timber land, and a hundred 
acres of marsh, from which he gathers large 
crops of hay each season. A man of wise 
judgment, eminently practical and energetic, 
he is one of the prominent farmers of the com- 
munity in which he lives, and is held in high 
regard as a man and as a citizen. 

Mr. George has been twice married. His 
first wife, whose maiden name was Hattie 
Coburn, died in early womanhood, leaving one 
child, Hattie, who is now the wife of Wilbur 
Turner, of Port Elgin, N. B., and has three 
children — ^ Herbert, Lizzie, and Margaret. 
Mr. George afterward married Elizabeth Bur- 
pee, by whom he has six children ; namely, 
Edgar B. , Clarence J., Amelia M., Charles 
Ashley, Chesley C, and Margaret E. In pol- 
itics Mr. George is a Liberal, but is not active 
in party matters. He and all the members of 
his family belong to the Methodist church. 



^^OSIAH FOWLER, manufacturer of car- 
riage-building materials, St. John, and 
a veteran of the Civil War in the 
United States, was born in French Village, 
Kings County, N.B., November 24, 1837. 
His father was Josiah Fowler, a farmer, and 
his grandfather, Gabriel I^'owler, who came 
from New York to New Brunswick with other 
Loyalists in 1783. 

When sixteen years old, young Fowler left 
his father's farm and went to Walpole, Mass., 
where he found employment in a shovel and 



axle factory. At the breaking out of the Re- 
bellion he took sides with the North, and en- 
listed in the Forty-fourth Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, with which he 
served until honorably discharged in 1864. 
Coming to St. John, he established himself as 
a manufacturer of springs and axles and edge- 
tools, a business which he is still carrying on 
successfully, employing an average force of 
thirty workmen. 

In 1863 Mr. Fowler was joined in marriage 
with Persis M. Blake, his first wife, who was 
a native of Franklin, Mass. She died in 
1877, leaving one daughter, Idella M., who is 
now the wife of A. D. Barber, of St. John. 
In 1889 he married for his second wife Annie 
R. Rankin, daughter of Alexander Rankin, 
formerly of the firm of T. Rankin & Sons. 
The children of this union are: Blanchard, 
Greta, Aline, Andrew B , and Ronald R. 
Fowler. 

Mr. Fowler belongs to the Masonic order 
and the Sons of Temperance. He is a mem- 
ber of the Congregational church. His busi- 
ness ability has enabled him to acquire a 
financial success, and as a citizen he is highly 
esteemed for his many sterling qualities. 



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'N. ROBERT MARSHALL, a 
prominent insurance man of St.. 
John, N.B., was born in Pictou 
County, Nova Scotia, April 27, 1S32, a son 
of Alexander McNaughton Marshall and his 
wife, Elizabeth Crockett, grand-daughter of 
James Johnson, of Truro, N. S. He is a 




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great-grandson of Robert Marshall, Esq., 
generally known -as Deacon Marshall, who 
emigrated from Dumfries, Scotland, to Pic- 
tou, N.S., in 1773. On August 26, 1783, 
Deacon Robert Marshall received a grant of 
three hundred and fifty acres of land at Mid- 
dle River, in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. 
John Crockett, of Dumfries, Scotland, who 
emigrated to Pictou, N.S., in 1783, and who 
was the maternal grandfather of the subject 
of this sketch, received at the same time a 
grant of five hundred acres of land, also in the 
county of Pictou, N.S. 

The Johnson branch of the family emigrated 
in 1756 from Londonderry, Ireland, to New 
Hampshire. James Johnson, Mr. Marshall's 
great-grandfather, in 1761 removed from New 
England to Truro, N.S. , and became a sharer 
in a land grant of eighty thousand acres 
divided among about seventy settlers, all from 
the New England States. This grant included 
the whole township of Truro. The names of 
James and John Johnson appear in a record of 
the grant, signed by Governor Wilmot. 

Robert Marshall was educated in the 
grammar school at Chatham, N.B. He was 
subsequently employed as an accountant and 
confidential clerk by the well-known mercan- 
tile, lumbering, and ship-building firm of 
Johnson & Mackie, of Chatham, Miramichi. 
In the month of April, 1859, he removed to 
St. John, having been appointed accountant of 
the now Intercolonial Railway, then known 
as the European & North American Railway. 
While holding this position he organized a 
system of returns and accounts, prepared as 



the result of a personal inspection of the vari- 
ous systems, then prevailing, of railways in 
the United States and Western Canada. In 
1866 he established in St. John a general 
agency for fire, life, and marine insurance, 
and now represents at 61 Prince William 
Street, Imperial Building, St. John, N.B., 
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
York, as agent and cashier. This company, 
of which Jacob A. Johnson, Esq., of Halifax, 
N. S. , is general manager for the Maritime 
Provinces of Canada, and also for the colony 
of Newfoundland, is the largest mutual life 
insurance company known to history. It is 
the largest insurance corporation in the world, 
with assets exceeding two hundred and ninety 
million dollars, and has taken first rank as a 
life insurance and bond investment company 
in Canada. 

Mr. Marshall is secretary and treasurer of 
the New Brunswick Sanatorium, and is also a 
Notary Public for the province and Justice of 
the Peace of the county of Kings and of the 
city and county of St. John, being the only 
dual magistrate in the province. He is the 
author of several papers, among them one on 
the subject of the "Canadian System of Clas- 
sification and Inspection of Shipping," 1868, 
several suggestions contained in which were 
acted upon by the Dominion government; one 
on the subject of "Deck Loads," which re- 
ceived consideration by the Dominion ministry, 
and on the recommendation of Earl Kimberly 
several suggestions contained in which have 
since been made statutory; a paper on "Fire 
and Life Insurance," read at Ottawa in 1875, 



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while chairman of a committee of the Domin- 
ion Board of Trade; and one in 1874, also 
read before the Dominion Board of Trade, at 
Ottawa, on the subject of "Canadian Tonnage 
and Plimsoll's Bill," in which he claimed for 
the port of St. John, N.B., at that time the 
fourth place in gross amount of tonnage, and 
more tonnage, measured by population, than 
any other port in the British Empire. Mr. 
Marshall was in 1879 a member of the first 
Board of Commissioners of the present Pro- 
vincial Exhibition Organization of St. John. 

Mr. Marshall married first September 27, 
185s, Anna Matilda, daughter of the late 
George Henderson, Esq., merchant, of New- 
castle, Miramichi. She died at Chatham, 
Miramichi, in 1856. He married for his sec- 
ond wife, June 16, 1863, Charlotte Neill, 
daughter of the late Captain Thomas Rees, of 
St. John, N.B., and grand-daughter of James 
Shand, Esq., of Montrose, County Aberdeen, 
Scotland. 

Mr. Marshall is an e.x-Commissioner of the 
General Public Hospital of St. John, ex- 
chairman of the commissioners of the abattoir 
for city and county of St. John, a director 
and life member of the Highland Society of 
New Brunswick; trustee of St. Andrew's Pres- 
byterian Church of St. John ; director of the 
Protestant Orphan Asylum of St. John, P'irst 
Lieutenant of the Second Battalion of the St. 
John Light Infantry, a life member of the 
Y. M. C. A. of St. John, and ex-president 
of St. Andrew's Society of St. John. A 
prominent Free Mason, he was created on 
June 4, 1870, a Sovereign Grand Inspector- 



general, or thirty-third degree Mason, by 
Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite of Eng- 
land. He is a director of the New Brunswick 
Masonic Hall Company, and assisted in 
founding the higher grades of Free Masonry 
throughout the province. He at present 
ranks as follows: Past Grand Master, Grand 
Lodge of New Brunswick; Past Deputy 
Grand High Priest, Grand Chapter of New 
Brunswick; Past Provincial Prior Sovereign, 
Great Priory of Canada; Past Lieutenant 
Grand Commander, A. & A. S. Rite, Canada; 
Grand Cross of the Red Cross, Rome and Con- 
stantine; Imperial Grand Council of England; 
Prov. J. G. Warden, Royal Order of Scotland; 
Kora Temple, A. A. O. M. S., Order Eastern 
Star; Swedenborgian Rite, and at present 
holds the positions of Most Puissant Grand 
Master of the Supreme Grand Council of the 
Cryptic Rite of Free Masonry of the Maritime 
Provinces of Canada, whose Grand is East 
at the city of St. John, N.B. Mr. Marshall 
is also an Orangeman and a member of 
Pioneers' Lodge of Odd Fellows. 

In 1874 Mr. Marshall offered as an in- 
dependent candidate for the city of St. John 
on a platform, peculiarly his own, holding 
that in the New Brunswick school law, with- 
out destroying the principle of non-sectarian 
free schools, modifications might be made 
which, while doing no wrong to Protestants, 
would be acceptable to the Roman Catholic 
portion of the community. On this issue he 
was defeated, but in 1876 he was elected, and 
then the very modifications proposed and recom- 
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eral harmony, proving satisfactory, in general, 
to both Catholics and Protestants. In 1876 
Mr. Marshall was elected to the Provincial 
Legislature, but owing to a contest over the 
election he resigned his seat. He was at once 
re-elected by acclamation, and he was also 
elected for a second term of four years, and 
was a member of the Fraser-Wedderburn gov- 
ernment of the Province of New Brunswick 
until his retirement from politics in the year 
1882. In the year 1881 the Prince of Wales 
created the Hon. Robert Marshall by patent 
a Knight Commander of the Temple. Of this 
order Her Majesty, the Queen, is Grand Pa- 
tron. Mr. Marshall was treasurer in 1865 of 
the Confederation Association of New Bruns- 
wick, located at the city of St. John, James R. 
Ruel, Esq., present Collector of Customs of 
the city of St. John, N.B., being president. 
He took an active and determined part in the 
elections of 1865 and of 1866, which brought 
about the Confederation of 1867. Mr. Mar- 
shall is a Liberal of the Joseph Howe, Tilley, 
and Fisher school of politics who aimed at 
responsible government by the people for the 
people. 



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■Tf7)0BERT COLPITTS, a prosperous and 

I ^^ progressive agriculturist of Coverdale, 

^— ^' Albert County, N. B. , was born June 

2, 1830, on the farm which he now occupies. 

He is a son of the late Lazarus Colpitts. 

William Colpitts, father of Lazarus, was 
born in Newcastle, England, whence he emi- 
grated with his parents to New Brunswick. 
He subsequently settled in Coverdale, where 



he cleared and improved a homestead, on which 
he lived and labored until his death. Soon 
after taking up his abode in Coverdale, he 
married Elizabeth Cummings, who was born 
in Germany. They became the parents of 
seven children, of whom Lazarus was the third 
in order of birth. 

Lazarus Colpitts was born on the home farm 
and was there trained to farming pursuits. 
Learning the trades of tanner and shoemaker, 
he worked at these occupations parts of each 
year, continuing his residence at the home- 
stead and carrying on the farm successfully 
until a few years prior to his death, when he 
retired to Moncton. He married Jane Col- 
pitts, a cousin, by whom he had five children, 
namely : Robert, the special subject of this 
sketch; William W. ; John R. ; Roland; and 
Henry H. Lazarus Colpitts died at the age 
of sixty-six years, and his widow at the age of 
seventy-six years. Both were members of the 
Methodist church. 

Robert Colpitts acquired his early education 
in the public schools of Coverdale, and having 
succeeded to the ownership of the farm which 
his grandfather reclaimed from the wilderness, 
and on which his father's active years were 
spent, he has devoted his entire time to its 
management. He has given attention to vari- 
ous branches of general farming, and has made 
many substantial improvements on the estate. 
In politics he is independent, voting for the 
best men and measures, irrespective of party 
relations. 

On March 30, 1857, Mr. Colpitts married 
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children were born to them, and three are now 
living; namely, Clifton R., Robert C, and 
Minnie. Mrs. Colpitts died at the age of 
fifty-three years. She was a true Christian 
and a member of the Methodist church, to 
which Mr. Colpitts also belongs. 



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'OHN DEAN PURDY, who for many 
years was one of the leading ship- 
owners and merchants of St. John, was 
born in this city, October 29, 1817. His 
parents were Obadiah and Sarah (Dean) Purdy. 
His father was born in Westchester County, 
New York, in 1777, and his mother in New 
York State, February 13, 1780. 

His paternal grandparents, Gilbert and 
Elizabeth (Ogden) Purdy, were natives of 
Westchester County ; and the former took an 
active part on the British side in the American 
Revolution. At the close of the war, in 17S3, 
Grandfather Purdy came with his family to 
New Brunswick, and received a grant of land 
in St. John. Eate in life he removed to 
Purdy's Point, Long Beach, where he died in 
April, 1825, aged eighty-five years, his wife's 
death occurring October 23, 1830, at the age 
of ninety. Pie had five children; namely, 
Thomas, Wilmoth, Jonathan, Joseph, and Oba- 
diah. 

Obadiah Purdy, John Dean Purdy's father, 
was six years old when his parents came to St. 
John. When a young man he engaged in the 
fishing industry, and later he became a pros- 
perous fish dealer. Pie died in 1836. Plis 
wife, Sarah, whom he married November 20, 



1801, died in 1856. She was the mother of 
ten children; namely, William, John, Henry 
Wiggins, Louisa, Ann, Obadiah, Sarah, Wil- 
moth, John Dean, and Jane Foshay. William, 
who was born September 10, 1802, left home 
and was never heard from. John died in in- 
fancy. Henry Wiggins, who was born January 
13, 1806, went from St. John to Woodstock, 
and later removed to Purdy's Point, where he 
engaged in farming and tanning. He was 
a man of more than ordinary intelligence. 
He served two terms in the Plouse of Assem- 
bly of New Brunswick, and was an ardent sup- 
porter of the Tory party. He died in St. John, 
February i, i88g. Louisa, who was born No- 
vember 25, 1808, married Captain Thomas 
Hardenbrook. She died July 8, 1865. Ann 
was born January 29, 1810, and died May 31, 
1856. Obadiah, Jr., was born August 19, 
1 812, and died July 22, 1883. He was asso- 
ciated in business with his brother, Henry W. , 
at Purdy's Point. Sarah was born August 8, 
1814, and died in infancy. Wilmoth, who was 
born September 3, 18 15, resided with her 
brothers at Purdy's Point, and died in St. 
John, August 28, 1893. Jane P'oshay, who 
was born January i, 1820, married Captain 
Albert Betts, December 28, 1S3S, and reared 
three sons and two daughters. 

John Dean Purdy was educated in St. John. 
At an early age he began life as clerk in 
a mercantile establishment, and later engaged 
in that line on his own account. Pie met with 
several severe losses by fire, but by persever- 
ance built up a large and prosperous business. 
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owner of a fleet of vessels. January 28, 1S70, 
he sailed for Liverpool on the ill-fated steamer, 
"City of Boston," and never returned. 

On December 24, 1844, Mr. Purdy was 
united in marriage with Hannah Amelia Stick- 
ney, daughter of Captain Samuel Stickney, who 
was born in St. Stephen, N. B. , and was a de- 
scendant of an old New England family. 
They had four sons and four daughters, namely : 
Emily Reed, who was born November 11, 
1845, and died August 9, 1847; Louksa, born 
September 17, 1847, died May 22, 1862; 
William Henry, born September 11, 1849; 
George, born November 27, 185 1, who resides 
at Wickham, Queens County; Alice Wilmoth, 
born January 24, 1854; John Dean, Jr., born 
July 20, 1857; Maud May, who was born Sep- 
tember 23, 1S60, and died January 25, 1862; 
and Walter Ogden, who was born June 28, 
1862. Alice Wilmoth Purdy, who married 
Leonard Arthur Tilley (son of Sir Leonard 
Tilley) on April 27, 1876, died in Aiken, 
S. C, I'ebruary 6, 1S81, leaving two children 
— Laura Edith PI. Tilley and a son who died 
in infancy. John Dean Purdy, Jr., who is 
with the James Pender Company (Limited), 
married November 29, 1888, Katie Ida Leon- 
ard, of St. John. She died January 25, 1893, 
leaving one daughter — Dorothy W^ilmoth 
Purdy. Walter Ogden Purdy, who is secre- 
tary and treasurer of the James Pender Com- 
pany, married January 16, 1889, Bertha May 
Mills. She died May 27, i8gi, having had 
one child, who died in infancy. William 
Henry Purdy was brought up in St. John. He 
was educated at the Collegiate School, Wind- 



sor, N. S., and after the death of his father 
took charge of his shipping interests. In 1882 
he was appointed Shipping Ma.ster for the port 
of St. John. On June 19, 1872, he married 
Jennie Durant Sancton, daughter of Henry P. 
and Maria (Durant) Sancton.- • He has had 
four children : Brunswick Sancton ; John Dean ; 
Maurice M. O. Purdy; and William II., Jr., 
who died in infancy. 

Mr. John Dean Purdy's widow, who still 
survives and is residing in St. John, is now in 
her seventy-ninth year. 




ILLIAM H. HAYWARD, formerly 
one of the leading merchants of St. 
John, was born in Sussex, N. B. , in 1S29, son 
of William David Hayward. Reared on a 
farm, he received his education in the public 
schools of his native town. In 1852 he came 
to St. John, and entered into partnership with 
the late William Warwick as dealer in crockery 
and china ware, their liouse being located on 
Prince William Street, near Chubbs's Corner. 
The firm continued in business until 1870, 
when Mr. Hayward bought out his partner and 
for seven years thereafter conducted the busi- 
ness alone, until he was burned out in the 
great fire of 1877. Then he removed to 85 
Princess Street, where he subsequently con- 
ducted it, and where it is now carried on by 
his son, H. P. Hayward. A man of exemplary 
enterprise, and moreover of the strictest integ- 
rity, he built up the largest trade of its kind 
in the Maritime Provinces. 

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daughter of Zachariah Paiiee, of Sussex, and 
of Loyalist descent, and by this union had one 
son, Harvey P. Hayward. Mr. Hayward was 
trustee of the Centenary Methodist Church of 
St. John for many years. His death, which 
occurred September 3, 1898, was the result of 
an accident. 

Harvey P. Hayward was born in St. John, 
May 21, i860. He received his education 
in the grammar school of that city and at 
Sackville College. After leaving school he 
entered the store of his father, and on his 
father's death succeeded to the management of 
the business. He was married in 1883 to 
Miss Annie E. Anderson, a daughter of J. M. 
Anderson, and of Scottish descent. Mr. Har- 
vey P. Hayward and his wife are the parents 
of three children. 




"ON. CHARLES FISHER, for many 
/cars a Justice of the Supreme Court 
and prominently identified with the 
Liberal party of New Brunswick, was born in 
Fredericton, September 16, 18 10. He was a 
son of Peter Fisher, who was a native of the 
State of New Jersey, but of German origin. 

Peter Fisher and his father were Loyalists 
during the Revolutionary War, and in 1783 
they settled in New Brunswick. Peter Fisher, 
known as the author of a history of New Bruns- 
wick, was for many years a prominent lumber 
merchant of Fredericton. He reared a family 
of six sons, one of whom, L. P. P'ishcr, O. C, 
was Mayor of Woodstock from its incorpora- 



tion as a city in 1856 to 1880, when he 
resigned. 

Charles Fisher was among the first alumni 
of King's College, Fredericton, from which he 
graduated in 1829. He read law with Judge 
G. F. Street, then Advocate-general of the 
province, was admitted as an attorney at 
Hilary term in 1831, and as barrister at 
Michaelmas term in 1833, in the meantime 
having spent a year in Itngland at one of the 
Lms of Court. Commencing the practice of 
his profession in Fredericton, he rapidly ad- 
vanced. He unsuccessfull)' ran an election for 
a seat in the House of Assemblies in 1834, but 
three years later, at an election brought about 
by the death of King William IV., he was re- 
turned as one of the four Representatives to 
the House for York County. He was again 
elected in 1841, and from that time until his 
elevation to the bench he was an influential 
factor in provincial politics. In February, 
1842, he took a leading part in the debate 
relative to surrendering certain rights into the 
hands of the Executive Council, and in 1854 
he was called upon to form a new government, 
of which he became the leader, with S. L. 
Tilley, A. J. Smith, and John M. Johnson as 
associates. This was the first purely Liberal 
administration found in the province. In 1S50 
and 1851 he was defeated by the Hon. Charles 
McPherson. 

In 1852 he was apjiointed one of the com- 
missioners to consolidate and codify the stat- 
utes, and inquire into the proceedings of the 
Courts of Law and Equity and the Law of 
Ex'idence, the result of which is embodied in 




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several volumes issued in 1856. In 1856 he 
was again returned to the Assembly, and the 
following year was for the second time re- 
quested by the Lieutenant Go\-ernor to form a 
new administration. Of this he became the 
Attorney -general, and remained at its head 
until 1861, when he resigned, owing to cer- 
tain questions arising as to the management of 
the crown lands. In company with the Hon. 
John Robertson he went to England in the 
interest of promoting better railroad facilities 
for the province, and succeeded in arranging 
a contract for the construction of the line from 
St. John to Shediac. He was triumphant in 
the general election of 1S62, but experienced 
an overwhelming defeat in Januar)-, 1865, 
upon the issue of Canadian confederation, 
which he favored. He was a delegate to the 
Quebec conference in 1864, represented Fred- 
ericton at the Detroit convention in 1865, and 
was one of the delegates sent to P^ngland in 
1866 for the purpose of completing arrange- 
ments for uniting the provinces. 

In 1868 his political services were rewarded 
by his elevation to the bench, he being ap- 
pointed a Justice of the Supreme Court and a 
Judge of the Court of Divorce and Matrimo- 
nial Causes. As a constitutional lawyer he 
stood pre-eminent, and previous to becoming a 
Judge he favored laws which have since been 
passed, and whose enactment was to his keen 
perception simply a question of time. As a 
legislator he has left a broad and indelible 
mark upon the statute books of the province, 
and as a politician he was an honest, consist- 
ent Liberal from first to last, free from vin- 



dictiveness and above all ardently devoted to 
his country and especially to his native prov- 
ince. He declined to accept the Chief Jus- 
ticeship on account of party- interests, and 
twice refused the appointment of Lieutenant 
Governor. He received the degree of Doctor 
of Civil Law from his college in 1866, and for 
his services in behalf of the Canadian confed- 
eration he was awarded two medals, one of silver 
and another of bronze. He enjoyed the re- 
markable distinction of having no personal 
enemies, and those who antagonized him in 
politics admired and respected him as a man. 
Judge Fisher died at his home in Fredericton, 
December 8, 1880, and it may be said that his 
desire to leave the impressions of his mind 
upon the institutions of his country was fully 
realized. 

On September 8, 1835, Judge Fisher mar- 
ried Amelia, seventh daughter of David Hat- 
field, a representative of an old English fam- 
ily and a Loyalist who came from New York 
to New Brunswick after the American Revolu- 
tion. She became the mother of four sons and 
four daughters, of whom two daughters are 
living. Jane M. P., widow of the Hon. J. J. 
Eraser, resides at Farraline Place, and Frances 
Amelia lives at Summer Villa. 




OBERT BISSELL PATERSON, 
member of the firm of Brock & Pater- 
'■ son, wholesale millinery and fancy 
dry goods. St. John, was born in Kinnesswood, 
Scotland, January 18, 1848, son of Robert and 
Margaret (Low) Paterson. He received his 



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education in the schools of his native parish. 
Subsequently he began his apprenticeship to 
the dry-goods business, serving four years at 
Dunfermline. Then he went to Glasgow, 
where he was ennployed as salestnan until 1871. 
In that year he accepted a position with Daniel 
& Boyd, of the "London house" of St. John, 
N.B. , where he remained fifteen years. In 
1886 he formed a partnership with F. W. G. 
Brock, under the firm name of Brock & Pater- 
son, and established what is now one of the 
best known millinery and fancy dry-goods 
houses in New Brunswick. They do the larg- 
est business in the millinery line of any firm 
in the Maritime Provinces, occupying the large 
store at 32 King Street, including three floors 
above. Besides eighteen clerks they employ 
four travelling salesmen. 

Mr. Paterson was married in 1884 to Miss 
Helen M. Nase, a daughter of the late Philip 
Nase, of Indiantown, further mention of whom 
may be found on another page of this volume. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Paterson have been born six 
children, who are all living but one: Kenneth 
B., Graeme, Robert, Philip Nase (who died 
at the age of eighteen m'onths), Margaret, and 
John Blair Balfour. Mr. Paterson is a mem- 
ber of St. David's Presbyterian Church and 
of the St. Andrew's Society. 

Mr. Paterson' s residence is located at g8 
Wentworth Street in the city of St. John. 
]5ut he spends his summers with his family at 
Westfield, N. II, a pleasant little summer re- 
sort that is located about fifteen miles up the 
St. John River, and is one of the most beauti- 
ful spots along that river. 




LEXANDER ROBINSON, of Chat- 
ham, N. B. , manufacturer of carriages 
and dealer in fine importations, was 
born in Northumberland County, this province, 
on March 3, 184S, son of John and Janet 
(Scott) Robinson. 

His father was a native of County Longford, 
in the north of Ireland. He came to this 
country with his mother when about twelve 
years old. Me learned the painter's trade, 
and subsecjuently worked at it during the re- 
mainder of his life. His wife, Janet, was the 
daughter of Scotch parents, with whom she 
came to America in her childhood. She was 
the mother of the following-named children: 
William, Richard, Mary, George, John, 
Frances, Alexander, Janet, Robert, and Martha. 
Mr. John Robinson was a member of St. Paul's 
Church and for many years a leading member 
of the Sons of Temperance. He died on 
April 29, i86g, and his wife died on January 
19, 1S62. 

Alexander Robinson was onl)- sixteen years 
of age when he was set to leain the carriage- 
maker's trade. He worked at Newcastle, and 
in St. John with Price & Shaw, and, having 
finished his apprenticeship, worked as a jour- 
neyman for a year in Yarmouth, N.S. , and for 
two years at Rosebank. At the end of that 
time he returned to Newcastle, and worked for 
a time at carriage painting. He came to 
Chatham in 1879, and established his present 
business. He not only manufactures car- 
riages, but keeps on sale imported vehicles of 
the best styles and makes. He is agent for all 
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Mr. Robinson was married on Marcii 4, 
1873, to Miss Jane Hewitson Cormack, a na- 
tive of Chatliam, daugliter of Alexander and 
Rutli (Pattison) Cormacl<, who came liere from 
Scotland. Of the nine children born of this 
union, three died in infancy, and Violet died 
at the age of six years. The five living are: 
Gertrude C. , Elizabeth C, Margaret K. S., 
Colin A., and Hewetson L. Mr. Robinson 
is one of the Chatham Aldermen. He is 
a member of the Blue lodge and chapter of 
Masons, of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
men, and of the Royal Arcanum. He is one 
of the trustees of St. Andrews Parish Church. 




|DWIN H. McALPIxXE, M.A., St. John, 
was born in Cambridge, Queens 
County, N.B., March 30, 185 i, sen of Charles 
and Matilda Jane (Cameron) McAlpine. His 
grandfather, Charles McAlpine, Sr. , a native 
of Glasgow, Scotland, who emigrated to New 
Brunswick and settled in Queens County, 
where he followed farming, was a son of Peter 
and Elizabeth (Waters) McAlpine, and one of 
a family of six children ; namely, John, James, 
Charles, Mercy, Elizabeth, and Janet. Charles 
McAlpine, Sr., on May 28, 1794, married 
Christine Belmain, who was born in Glasgow, 
daughter of William and Margaret (Xevins) 
Belmain, and who had three sisters and 
three brothers — Julia, Margaret, Katie, John, 
William, and Henry Belmain. Eight children 
— Peter, Jame.s, John, Charles, Katie, Janet, 
Peggy, and William — were the fruit of their 
union. Grandfather McAlpine died at the 



age of eighty-six, and Grandmother McAlpine 
lived to be ninety-four years old. 

Charles McAlpine, Jr., father of P!d\\in H., 
was born in Queens County in 1803, and fcjl- 
lowed farming during his active years. He 
died in 1875. His w-ife, Matilda Jane, was 
a native of Queens County and of Scotch de- 
scent. They had nine children; namely, 
James, Nevin, Charles, Edwin H., Albenia, 
Matilda, Mary, Priscilla, and Cecilia. The 
mother died in 1887. 

Edwin H. McAlpine attended the superior 
schools of Cambridge, Queens County, his 
instructor being James Mitchell, who was 
afterward Premier of New Brunswick. After 
completing his college preparations at the 
Collegiate School, P'redericton, he entered 
the University of New Bnniswick, and gradu- 
ated with honor in 1869. He was principal 
of the combined grammar and high school in 
Chatham, N. B. , for four years. He i^ursued 
his law studies with William Pugsley, Q. C, 
was admitted as attorney in 1878, and became 
a barrister in 1879. Locating in St. John, 
he has found ample opportunity to display his 
talents in the courts of New Brunswick, and is 
regarded as a lawyer of unusual ability. He 
is Referee in Equity and Agent of the Minis- 
ter of Justice. He has met with excellent 
success in several important cases, among them 
being that of Belyea t'. Small ^V^?/., and Bell 
I'. Bell; and as Referee his judgments in the 
cases of Jones v. McKean and Maclare 1'. 
Grant were sustained by the Supreme Court 
of Canada. 

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joined in marriage with Miss Clotilda Ferris, 
daughter of the late John Ferris, Esq., M.P. , 
for Queens County. Of this union two chil- 
dren were born, but neither of them is living. 
Mrs. McAlpine died in 1881. 

Mr. McAlpine is a member of Hibernian 
Lodge, F. & A. M. and of the St. Andrews 
Society. 

'RANCIS J. DESMOND, M.D., CM., 
a popular physician and surgeon of 
Newcastle, N.B. , was born in Buctouche, Kent 
County, October 7, 1862, a son of Patrick and 
Sarah (Fitzpatrick) Desmond. His paternal 
grandfather was John Desmond, who emigrated 
from Ireland when Patrick was fourteen years 
of age, settling first at Douglastown, N. B. , 
and later removing to Kent County. 

Patrick Desmond, born in Cork, Ireland, on 
attaining to years of maturity engaged in busi- 
ness as a millwright in Kent County. After 
following this occupation for some time he 
became proprietor of a hotel at Buctouche, 
Kent County, which he managed for several 
years. He then went into business as a mer- 
chant and as a manufacturer and dealer in 
lumber, and subsequently for some years he 
devoted his energies to ship-building. His 
wife, Sarah, was a native of Chatham, N.B. , 
and a daughter of Luke and Mary (O'Leary) 
Fitzpatrick, who came to New ]?runswick from 
Wexford, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 
Desmond were the parents of eight children, 
two of whom are now living, namely: Mary 
Ellen, wife of Captain William Beynon ; and 
P'rancis J., the subject of this .sketch. Luke, 



the eldest son, was a sea captain. He sailed 
from Limerick, Ireland, in January, 188S, on 
a vessel called the "Borzone, " which was 
never more heard from. The others died in 
childhood. Patrick Desmond died in 1880, at 
the age of fifty-four years. 

Francis J. Desmond received his elementary 
education in the common schools, and subse- 
quently attended St. Michael's College, Chat- 
ham, where he took a commercial course. He 
then began the study of medicine with Dr. 
I. B. Freeman and Dr. R. McLearn, of Fred- 
ericton, receiving the benefit of their instruc- 
tion for two years, during eighteen months of 
which time he was employed in a drug store. 
He had previously, after leaving St. Michael's 
College, taught for a year in St. Louis' Col- 
lege, Kent County. He matriculated at Mc- 
Gill College in 1884, and graduated March 31, 
1888, with the degree of M.D., CM. In the 
following June he entered upon the duties of 
his profession in Newcastle, where he has 
since remained, having built up a large and 
lucrative practice. He is a member of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Quebec, 
Canada, of the New Brunswick Medical So- 
ciety, the British Medical Association, and 
the Canadian Medical Association. 



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fHOMAS RANKINE, founder of the 
extensive bakery in St. John now car- 
ried on by his successors, under the firm name 
of Messrs. Thomas Rankine & Sons, was born 
in Kincardine, Scotland, in 1S03. In 1818 
he began his apprenticeship at the baker's 




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trade with John Kidston, with whom he 
served four years, during which time he re- 
ceived his food and lodging. Emigrating in 
1822, he found employment at Edmund Kirk's 
bakery in Cooper's Alley, now Church Street, 
St. John; and in 1824 he, in company with 
a Mr. Berryman, purchased the Kirk estab- 
lishment, which they conducted under the 
firm name of Rankine & Berryman for about 
two years. He then purchased Merritt's bake- 
house on Union Street, which he occupied 
until taking possession of new cjuarters fitted 
up by him on Mill Street. His business, 
which he began upon a scale in accordance 
with the population at that time (1826), in- 
creased proportionately with the city's growth, 
until it became recognized as an important in- 
dustry. The wooden building in which he 
carried it on was destroyed by a disastrous 
conflagration in 1849. The same year he 
erected a brick building, which he later en 
larged by adding another store, and in 1874 
the whole was extended in the rear through to 
Georges Street. The Rankine establishment 
was again swept away by the great fire of 
1877, but from its ashes immediately rose the 
present substantial block. In 1871 the elder 
Rankine admitted to partnership his two sons 
— Thomias A. and Alexander — ^they having 
been brought up in the business, which from 
that time to the present has been conducted 
under the firm name of Thomas Rankine & 
Sons. Although the father practically with- 
drew from the concern in 1874, his guiding 
hand was visible in its affairs until his death, 
which occurred in 1876. 



He was one of the first directors of the Me- 
chanics' Institute. At one time he served as 
treasurer and trustee of St. Andrew's Church, 
but later he joined St. Stephen's Church, in 
which he held the same offices and was a fol- 
lower of the Rev. W. T. VVishart. In 1824 
Mr. Rankine married Janet McWilliam, who 
was born in Scotland, daughter of Thomas 
McWilliam. Her parents were pioneers in 
Cocaigne, N.I3. , where her father cleared a 
farm, and he was accidentally killed by a 
falling tree. Mrs. Rankine became the 
mother of eleven children, four of whom are 
living; namely, Thomas A., Alexander, Janet, 
and John. The others were: Margaret, Eliz- 
abeth, James, Mary, William, Grace, and 
Ann. 

The business was carried on successfully by 
Thomas A. and Alexander Rankine until 
about ten years ago, when Alexander retired, 
and H. C. and Frank Rankine, sons of 
Thomas A., were admitted to the firm, which 
still retains its prestige among the leading 
business houses of St. John. The present 
proprietors have inherited the untiring energy 
and strict integrity of their sturdy predeces- 
sors; and these essential qualities, together 
with their progressive tendencies, have been 
the means of still further increasing the vol- 
ume of their business. To meet the increas- 
ing demand for their goods, they have just 
completed the erection of a four-story brick 
building on George's street seventy feet long 
and thirty feet wide. 

Thomas A. Rankine, senior partner of the 
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In 1846 he married Miss Louisa A. Caldwell, 
a native of Hudson, N.H., daughter of Alex- 
ander Caldwell and a representative of an old 
family of that State. Of this union were 
born eight children, namely: Janet, deceased; 
Henry C, a partner in the business; Walter; 
Hester, wife of the Hon. W. S. Fielding, 
Finance Minister, Canada; Oscar; Frank, 
who is associated with his father; Allan, and 
Zillah. After the death of his first wife, 
Louisa, Mr. Thomas A. Rankine married 
Mary E. Camber, by whom he has had two chil- 
dren — Mary L. (deceased) and William C. 

Mr. Rankine is a member of the St. An- 
drew's Society, and was formerly president of 
the Mechanics' Institute. He attends the 
Presbyterian church. 



(^TVNDRE GUSHING, for many years a 
hA prominent lumber merchant and re- 
V — ' spected resident of St. John, was 
a native of the United States. Born in Hing- 
ham, Mass., in 1820, he was a son of Nehemiah 
and Deborah (Briggs) Cushing. and was of 
the seventh generation in descent from Mat- 
thew Cushing, who, with his wife and five 
children, came over from lingland in the 
ship "Diligent " in the summer of 1638, 
and ill the autumn of that year settled at 
Hingham, Mass. The line was Matthew,' 
Daniel, = Theophilus,^ Theophilus,-' Theophi- 
lus,5 Nehemiah,'' Andre." (See Cushing gene- 
alogy in the History of Hingham, published 
in 1893.) 

Coming to St. John in 1851 in company 



with his brother, Theophilus (the fourth of 
that name in lineal descent), together they 
purchased a site at Lhiion Point, where in 
1852 they erected a four-gate steam saw-mill. 
This mill, destroyed by fire in 1855, was 
quickly rebuilt. Burned again in 1869, it 
was again rebuilt. Mr. Theophilus Cushing was 
succeeded by his son, George B. Cushing, the 
business being then carried on under the style 
of A. Cushing & Co. The firm traded exten- 
sively in lumber with West Indian, South 
American, and United States markets, and 
were known far and wide for their enterprise, 
sagacity, and honorable business methods. For 
years they had a very lucrative trade in sugar 
box shooks, in the manufacture of which they 
may be said to have been pioneers in St. John. 
Since the death of Mr. George B. Cushing his 
place in the firm has been taken by his son, 
George S. Cushing. 

Although he never became a naturalized 
British subject, Mr. Andre Cushing faithfull}' 
discharged all the duties of a good citizen to 
his adopted country. He took a keen interest 
in all movements for the public good. He was 
active in the work of temperance, and the 
weight of his influence was ever given to the 
support of any cause that rested upon a sound 
moral basis. The great Civil War in the 
United States quickened the home impulses of 
all American citizens residing in St. John 
during that period. Mr. Cushing was by birth 
and education a lover of freedom, and took 
a deep interest in the struggle. He became 
acquainted with many of the more eminent of 
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field or in the political arena had brought them 
into national prominence. He was a diligent 
reader of the historical and political literature 
of that important epoch, and it left a deep im- 
press on his mind. Personally, he was kind- 
hearted and gentle in his manners; but, when 
once his mind was made up on any subject, 
■he became firm and inflexible. His death 
occurred March 17, 1891. 

In the Grand Division of the Sons of Tem- 
perance, in the society of Odd Fellows, of 
which he had been Grand Master in the Lower 
Provinces, on the Board of Trade, and in other 
organizations in which he took an active inter- 
est, he is greatly missed; but those who mourn 
him most outside of his family are the personal 
friends who knew how kind-hearted, how true, 
how just he was, and who enjoyed intellectual 
association with him, who had the benefit of 
his extended observation and fine power of con- 
versation and close speculation in rare fields of 
study. Mr. Gushing was a sincere and earnest 
Christian, his mind and actions being influ- 
enced by the teachings of Swedenborg, of 
whose writings he was a close student. 

Mr. Gushing was twice married, his first 
wife being in maidenhood Miss Delia Rich, 
a native of Winterport, Me. After her death 
he married Mrs. K. D. Jevvett, a native of St. 
John, N. R. , and the widow of E. D. Jewett, of 
St. John. 

Mr. Gushing left five children, namely: 
Rebecca, wife of Dr. G. S. May, of New York ; 
Lucinda, wife of George B. Dunn, of Ashland, 
Me. ; Allston, who is a resident of St. John, 
N. B. ; Richmond H., who is a civil engineer 



and resides in Nova Scotia; and Ghauncey D. , 
who is a resident of the State of North Caro- 
lina. 

Allston Gushing, son of Andre Gushing, 
subject of the preceding sketch, by his first 
wife, Delia Rich, was born in Winterport, Me., 
in 1S49, and was about three years old when 
his parents removed to St. John, where he was 
reared. He obtained his elementary education 
in that city, and subsequently pursued more 
advanced studies in Waltham, Mass. After 
leaving school he engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness at Salisbury, N. B., and followed it until 
1888. He then moved to St. John, where he 
has since been successfully engaged in the 
same business. 

He was married in 1873 to Miss Glara L. 
Gurrier, a native of Hallowell, Me., and a 
daughter of Jabez Gurrier. Her father was of 
Puritan ancestry ; and her mother was a grand- 
niece of Josiah Bartlett, whose signature ap- 
pears next after that of John Hancock on the 
Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. 
Allston Gushing are the parents of six chil- 
dren : Lucinda G. ; Bertha M., wife of Parker 
P. Burleigh, of Houlton, Me. ; Andre Rich- 
mond, of St. John; Delia Rich; Gharles Dunn, 
and Glara Louise. The family attend the 
Ghurch of England. Mr. Gushing is a mem- 
ber of the I. O. O. F. 



OSEPH CRANDALL, one of the best 
known citizens of Moncton, N.B. , is 
also one of the oldest and most highly 
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a century has been closely identified with its 
business prosperity. He was born in Petitco- 
diac, N. B., February i6, 1S22, son of the Rev. 
David Crandall. Mr. Crandall's grandfather, 
the Rev. Joseph Crandall, who died in Salis- 
bury, N. B., at the venerable age of eighty 
years, was a Baptist minister of considerable 
note in his day, and preached in all parts of 
this Province. 

Rev. David Crandall was born in Salisbur}-, 
N. B., and was early ordained to the Baptist 
ministry. He was a faithful worker in the 
Master's vineyard, and acquired prominence in 
the denomination with which he was con- 
nected. A man of sturdy constitution and of 
temperate habits, he lived to the remarkable 
age of one hundred years. He married Eliza- 
beth Hopper, who also attained a good old 
age. 

JosejDh, the second son of the Rev. David 
Crandall, was educated at .St. Martin's and 
Salisbury, N.B. ; and after completing his 
studies he was employed as a clerk in a store 
at St. John until he reached man's estate. 
Locating then in Moncton in 1843, he opened 
a store of general merchandise, and for more 
than thirty years was a popular merchant. 
Moncton was at that time a very small town, 
with not more than a dozen houses, three 
stores, a church, a school building, two black- 
smith shops, and a carpenter's shop. In its 
subsequent rapid growth and improvement Mr. 
Crandall has been an important factor, and in 
the various i^ublic positions to which he lias 
been called he has invariably served with 
ability and fidelity. In 1846 he was a|ipointed 



Postmaster, and from that time until 1898 ad- 
ministered the affairs of the post-office most 
satisfactorily. On account of failing health 
he was then forced to give up the position, and 
was succeeded by his son, Steadman Crandall. 
In 1 87 1 he was appointed Savings Bank Agent. 
In 1875 he was made first chairman of. the 
Town Council under the incoriDoration act of 
that year, a distinction that he merited for his 
timely labors during the agitation that pre- 
ceded the confederation of the Provinces, and 
more especially the incorporation of the town 
of Moncton. 

In May, 1846, Mr. Crandall married I'" ranees 
A., daughter of William Steadman, of Monc- 
ton. Of their nine children five are now liv- 
ing, namely: Steadman, born July 11, 1847; 
Gilbert, born May 21, 1855; William, born 
March 14, 1857; Avola, born April 30, 1863; 
and Frank, born February i, 1866. Mr. and 
Mrs. Crandall are both members of the Baptist 
church. In politics he is independent, voting 
according; to his honest convictions. 




p |AJOR JOHN JAMES GORDON, 
proprietor of the Gordon Nail 
Works, West St. John, and the 
original promoter of that industry in the Mari- 
time Provinces, was born on Blue Rock, this 
city, October 13, 1853, son of Robert and 
Jane (Dixon) Gordon. His parents were born 
in Ireland, his father a descendant of Scotch 
ancestors and his mother of English. His 
jxitcinal grandfather was William Gordon, of 
County Derry, Ireland, a son of John Gordoir, 




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a dealer in live-stock. The name John, borne, 
it is thus shown, by Major Gordon's great- 
grandfather, is conspicuous in the ancestral 
line for several generations farther back. 

Robert Gordon, Major Gordon's father, born 
in 1814, was a linen weaver by trade; and he 
travelled over Ireland and Scotland previous to 
crossing the ocean. Upon his arrival in New 
Brunswick he found employment in a ship- 
yard. Afterward he worked in a saw-mill, 
and still later followed the blacksmith's trade. 
At length he settled on a farm in Aylesford, 
Kings County, but after a short time returned 
to St. John, West, where he spent the rest of 
his life; and he died September 20, i88g. 
He belonged to the Orange Societ}', and vi'as 
a member of the Presbyterian church. Robert 
and Jane (Dixon) Gordon had a family of four 
children, namely: Ellen, born May 2, 1851, 
who died January 27, 1868; John J., the 
subject of this sketch ; Anne Jane, born April 
12, 1855, who married Thomas H. Johnstone, 
of St. John; and Catherine, born January 2, 
1858, now the wife of J. Ezekiel McLeod. 
The mother, born 1828, is .still living. 

John James Gordon, leaving the St. John 
public schools at the age of thirteen years, 
worked in a saw-mill for two years, and then 
served an apprenticeship of three years at the 
brass founder's trade with William Hayward. 
He subsequently worked successively as a jour- 
neyman for Hayward & Farmer and as fore- 
man for Wales & Green, whom he left to take 
charge of the brass foundry department of 
James Harris & Co. 's works; and later on, 
operating a saw-mill in Campbellton, N.B., 



for a time, he returned to St. John, where he 
was engaged in the grocery business for some 
years. While employed in the manufacture of 
horseshoe nails with James Pender, he made 
arrangements with Daniel Clark, of the elec- 
tric works in Carleton, f(ir space and power for 
establishing a wire nail manufactory; and a 
proposition to consolidate made to Messrs. 
Pender & Purdy, the horseshoe nail makers, 
resulted in the formation of the joint stock 
company of Pender & Co., Limited. He re- 
mained with that concern but one year, during 
which time he had charge of the wire nail de- 
partment; and in the spring of 1893 he estab- 
lished his present plant, making his first ship- 
ment in August of the same year. At the 
present time he employs an average force of 
twelve men, producing thirteen thousand kegs 
annually; and his business is constantly in- 
creasing. 

Major Gordon has long been identified with 
the Canadian militia, which he joined at the 
age of eighteen, entering an artillery company 
as a gunner, and making his way forward to his 
present rank. He served as Lieutenant for 
one year under Colonel Armstrong, received 
his commission of Major in the Royal Light 
Artillery at the Military School in Quebec, 
and was permitted to retire with that rank to 
the reserve list. He also joined the Orange 
Society at eighteen, was a member of the Cadets 
of Temperance, has been elected for the third 
year as Marshal of the St. Andrew's Societ}-, 
and belongs to the Clan McKenzie, Order of 
Scotland. Major Gordon was baptized in the 
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the Church of England. He maintains his 
connection with both churches. 



/^STeORGE ROBERTSON, ex-Mayor of 
VmJ_ the city of St. John, N. B. , Province 
of Canada, was born in Kingston, Kent County, 
N. B. , January 30, 1844. His father, the late 
Duncan Robertson, was born in 1822 in Aber- 
deen, Scotland, where he was educated. Emi- 
grating from there to New Brunswick, he 
followed the trade of a ship-builder during his 
years of activity, being located at Kingston, 
Moncton, and Cocaigne. He died in 1883. 
His widow, whose maiden name was Georgiana 
Jardine, was born in Wamphray, Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland, and is now living in St. John, 
N.B. 

George Robertson was but two years old 
when in 1846 his parents removed to Moncton, 
where he received the rudiments of his educa- 
tion, which was further advanced by a course 
of study at the Sackville Academy. In 1861 
Mr. Robertson secured a situation as clerk for 
James Macfarlane in St. John, a position which 
he retained for seven years. Having obtained 
while thus employed a good knowledge of the 
grocery business, he embarked in trade for 
himself in 1868 by opening a store for the sale 
of groceries and West India goods. He car- 
ried on a successful wholesale and retail busi- 
ness until he was burned out in the memorable 
fire of 1877. In 1879 he resumed business at 
his old location, and at the same time opened 
a retail branch store on Prince William Street, 
the latter of which he afterward removed to 



King Street, and with his partner, Samuel 
Corbett, with whom he is still associated, es- 
tablished the well-known firm of George Rob- 
ertson & Co. In 1S94 this firm closed out 
the retail department of their trade; and they 
have since confined themselves to the whole- 
sale grocery business, their store being located 
at 67 Prince William Street. 

In his younger days Mr. Robertson was ac- 
tive])' interested in military affairs, and for 
a number of years was Captain of Company I, 
Second Battalion, St. John Light Infantry. A 
man of recognized business ability, he was 
chosen president of the St. John Board of 
Trade; and during the three years that he 
served in this capacity he became favorably 
known throughout the Dominion of Canada, 
his addresses before the boards of trade in the 
more important cities receiving merited atten- 
tion from the leading citizens of Canada. He 
also served as the first president of the Mari- 
time Board of Trade of St. John, and was at 
one time president of St. Andrews Society, 
the oldest organized society in the city. Mr. 
Robertson is prominently connected with many 
benevolent, business, and fraternal organiza- 
tions, being one of the commissioners of the 
Boys' Industrial Home, treasurer of the Relief 
and Aid Societ}', a director of the Plxhibition 
A.ssociation and of the Horticultural Associa- 
tion. Lie is a member of Clan McKenzie and 
of St. Andrews Society, and is an Elder in the 
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. 

Politically, Mr. Robertson is an Indepen- 
dent. In 1893 he was elected Mayor of the 
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elected until 1898, when he was not a candi- 
date. During his Mayoralty he had the 
pleasure and satisfaction of seeing Canadian 
interests greatly developed by the opening of 
St. John and other important ports of the 
Dominion as ports for the winter trade, a meas- 
ure which he strongly advocated while presi- 
dent of the Board of Trade. He was also 
largely instrumental in the opening up of the 
present steamship line between St. John and 
Demerara and ports in the West Indies. He 
is now a member of the House of Assembly of 
the Province of New Brunswick, and is pro- 
moter and director of the Imperial Dry Dock 
Company of St. John, N. B. 

Mr. Robertson married Agnes, daughter of 
the late William Turner, of St. John, N. B. ^ 
formerly of Glasgow, Scotland. Of their seven 
children one died in infancy and six are now 
living: Duncan and William Jardine, twins, 
who reside in St. John; Klizabeth Russell, 
who is the wife of John Montgomery, a barris- 
ter-at-law ; George Reith ; Janet Paterson ; and 
Ethel. Mrs. Robertson is a member of St. 
Andrews Presbyterian Church. 



-^LISS A. MARVEN, M.D., one of 
I «)\ the leading physicians of Hillsboro, 
Albert County, N. B. , was born in 
the parish of Botsford, now called Great Shem- 
ogue, December 10, 1861, and is a son of 
the late Josiah B. Marven. 

His grandfather, Silas Marven, was born at 
Belle Isle, Kings County, N. B. , where he 
spent his entire life of eighty-four years. He 



was a farmer by occupation, and worked most 
industriously at tilling the soil. He married 
Abigail Broad, by whom he had four children, 
two of whom are still living, namely: William 
S., who married Pniza Shanks and has one 
child, Ella, wife of W. Frank Hathaway, of 
.St. John; and Benjamin, who married Julia 
Trites. Both of the paternal grandparents 
were members of the Church of England. 

Josiah B. Marven was born in 1827, in Belle 
Isle, on the old homestead. In early manhood 
he established himself in business at Great 
Shemogue, N. B. , as a general merchant, and 
for a score of years carried on a thriving trade. 
Retiring then to a farm in that place, he en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, 
at the age of sixty-four years. In politics he 
was a Conservative, and in religion he and his 
wife were Methodists. He married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Joseph Avard, a leading merchant 
and one of the most influential citizens of his 
community. She died at the age of forty-nine 
years, leaving seven children, namely: Alice, 
wife of George G. Melvin, M.D., of St. John, 
N. B. , who has two children — Georgia and 
Alice; Bliss A. ; Maggie S. , wife of Chipman 
Keith, of Havelock, N.B. ; Edgar W. , unmar- 
ried, a dentist in Lynn, Mass.; Joseph A., 
unmarried, who is a commercial traveller in 
.St. John; John L. , a mechanic, residing at 
-St. John, unmarried; and George H., w'ho is 
dentist of Souris, P. E. I. 

Bliss A. Marven graduated from the Normal 
School at P'redericton, N. B. , with the class 
of 1879, and was afterward engaged for a time 
as a teacher in Dorchester and at Port Elgin. 



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He subsequently continued his studies, attend- 
ing first St. Joseph's College, then the Halifax- 
Medical College, after which he spent two 
years at the University of Vermont in Burling- 
ton, Vt., from which he graduated in 1886. 
The following year Dr. Marven practised at 
Albert, N. B., and in the fall of 1887 located 
at Hillsboro, where he has met with distin- 
guished success in his professional career. 
Fraternally, he is a member of Hillsboro 
Court, I. O. F. , and of the Canadian Home 
Circle, in both of which orders he is Exam- 
ining Physician. He is also a coroner for 
Albert County. 

On December 24, 1878, Dr. Marven married 
Maggie F. , daughter of Joseph Dobson, of 
Stony Creek, N. B. , and they have two children 
— Laura E. and Alice D. Mrs. Marven is 
a member of the Baptist church. 



'AMES TENNANT, an active business 
man of Fredericton, N.B. , was born in 
1833, in Glasgow, Scotland, a son of 
William Tennant. His father for eighteen 
years served in the Royal Navy, and was under 
Nelson at the battle of the Nile and also at 
Trafalgar. In the former engagement he was 
wounded, and, being captured, was cast into 
a French prison. After his return to Gla.sgow 
he was there engaged as a calico printer until 
his death, at the age of ^threescore years. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Jessie Dalziel, 
died in Glasgow at the age of fifty - eight 
years. They reared four sons and two daugh- 
ters. Of these children, James, the special 



subject of this sketch, was the youngest-born, 
and is the sole survivor. 

James Tennant entered the Calico Print 
Works, Barrhead, Renfrewshire (near Glas- 
gow), as a bound apprentice, and worked there 
for three years. Afterward he was employed 
for some time at the same occupation in 
Paisley, also in Renfrewshire, and later at 
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Subsequently he 
worked at iron ship-building at Glasgow, 
Greenock, Li\erpool, and Birkenhead, Eng- 
land, and at the Cape of Good Hope, to which 
last named place he went from Liverpool in 
1854 and where he remained three years. The 
next five years he was engaged as steward on 
one of the vessels of the Clyde steamship line, 
and after that he returned to Glasgow. There 
Mr. Tennant in 1863 embarked in business for 
himself as a wholesale and retail dealer in 
wines and spirits, in which for nine years he 
had a substantial trade. In 1873 he joined the 
party which formed the Kincardine Colony, 
with which he emigrated to New Brunswick ; and 
in June of that year he settled in Fredericton, 
where he has since continued in his former 
line of business, and is now a general mer- 
chant. Fraternally, he is an active member 
of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of the I. O. F. ; 
and of St. Andrew's Society, of which he has 
been treasurer since 1883. Politicall)', he is 
a Liberal. 

Mr. Tennant and Margaret Telford Ander- 
son, daughter of William Anderson, of Crawford 
Moor, Scotland, were united in marriage on 
November 22, 1S64. They have had thirteen 
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five — Maiy I., Isabella, John, and two others. 
The eight children now living are: Jessie, 
wife of Harry Phair, of Boston, Mass. ; Mar- 
garet ; Mary, wife of Donald Fraser, Jr. ; 
Louise; Archibald Wetherspoon, a telegraph 
operator on the Canadian Pacific Railway; 
James, an employee in the saw-mill of Donald 
Fraser & Sons; Norman, who is attending 
school ; and Walter. 




)Ieutp:na\t colonel Alfred 

MARKHAM, managing director of 
the Sun Printing Company (Lim- 
ited), St. John, N. B. , was born in Lincoln- 
shire, England, on February 26, 1 841, son of 
John and Elizabeth (Bailey) Markham. He 
received a practical training in the public 
grammar school, and was subsequently em- 
ployed in the railway and dock service until 
1864, when he sailed for the United States in 
the steamship "Bohemian. " On the passage 
the "Bohemian " was wrecked near Portland, 
Me., on the 22d of February; and forty-two of 
the passengers were drowned. Colonel Mark- 
ham's first employment in America was on the 
Grand Trunk Railway at Portland and Boston; 
and after that, for about one year, he was en- 
gaged as clerk on the International Company's 
steamer "New Brunswick," plying between 
Boston, Mass., and St. John, N. B. 

In April, 1866, he took charge for an Amer- 
ican company of the manganese mine at Ham- 
mond Vale, Kings County, N.B. , and during 
the quarter of a century that followed suc- 
ceeded in making this the most famous man- 



ganese mine on the continent. The mining 
village which he established is .still called, in 
his honor, Markhamvillc. In i8gi he bought 
the St. John Daily Sun newspaper, and on the 
organization of the Sun Printing Company was 
appointed managing director. 

Colonel Markham was Warden of Kings 
Count}' when the Marquis of Lome and the 
Princess Louise visited New Brunswick, and 
he presented an address to them at Sussex. 
In 1880 he was appointed Senior Major of the 
Eighth Princess Louise Hussars, and in 1896 
was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel in the militia. 
He is vice-president of the Provincial Rifle 
Association and president of the Canadian Cav- 
alry Association. He is a Knight Templar 
and a past president of St. George's Society, 
vice-president of the Keystone Fire Insurance 
Company, and a director of the Pictou Charcoal 
Iron Compau}'. In politics he is an active 
Conservative, in religion a member of the 
Church of lingland. He was married in No- 
vember, 1866, to Naida, daughter of the late 
John PI Turnbull. His family consists of 
two sons and four daughters. 



B 



CARLTON CLINCH, the well- 
known banker of St. John, was born 
in St. George, Charlotte County, 
N.B. , on September 12, 1849, son of Peter 
and Sarah Josephine (Wetmore) Clinch. He 
is a great-grandson of Peter Clinch, first, a 
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 
who emigrated to America, and later, at the 
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a member of the Royal Fensible Americans, 
being a Lieutenant, and subsequently promoted 
to be Captain. 

At the close of the war Peter Clinch, first, 
or Captain Clinch, came with other Loyalists 
to New Brunswick and settled at St. George, 
where he was granted a large tract of land by 
the British government. He formed a mili- 
tary company in Charlotte County, which per- 
formed valuable service in keeping down out- 
breaks ; and he was a member of the first 
Council before the government of the Province 
was formed. He died in St. George at about 
sixty years of age. 

Patrick Clinch, son of Captain Peter Clinch, 
was born and brought up on the farm in Char- 
lotte County, and was given a good education 
for those days. He founded a newspaper at 
St. Andrews known as the Provincialist. For 
a number of years he represented Charlotte 
County in the Provincial Legislature, and for 
many years was Inspector of Schools. He 
died at about eighty-four years of age. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Eleanor David- 
son, was of Scotch descent. 

Their son, Peter Clinch, second, father of 
D. Carlton Clinch, was an attorney in practice 
at St. George. He married Sarah Josephine, 
the daughter of the late Abraham J. Wetniore, 
of St. George, also of Loyalist descent. Peter 
Clinch and his wife were the parents of five 
children, of whom four are living, byname — 
Marion F., Elizabeth W. , D. Carlton, and 
Peter. Their father died in 1854, at the age 
of thirty-four years; and their mother died in 
1S95, at the age of seventy-one years. 



Coming to St. John as a youth of thirteen, 
D. Carlton Clinch was variously employed 
until 1873, when he entered the banking house 
of S. Jones & Co. as clerk, where he re- 
mained until 1882, since which time he has 
carried on for himself an extensive banking 
and brokerage business. Mr. Clinch married 
Susie C. McCullum, of Maitland, N. S. He 
has two children — Douglas Wetmore and 
Archibald Gordon. 




ILLIAM CLARK, a wide-awake, 
public-spirited citizen of Sackville, 
N.B., is associated with its mercantile inter- 
ests as manager of the general store belonging 
to his father, Stephen Clark. He was born 
November 26, 1861, in that part of the town 
known as Wood Point, where his grandfather, 
the late James Clark, settled in 1848. 

James Clark was born and reared in Nova 
Scotia. Learning the trade of a blacksmith in 
his early days, he followed it first in his native 
town and later at Wood Point, where he re- 
sided from 1848 until his death, at the age of 
sixty-six years. His wife, whose maiden name 
was Cynthia Snowden, lived to the venerable 
age of eighty-nine years. They had six chil- 
dren, of whom two are now living — Stephen 
and Mary. The latter is the wife of James 
Purdy, of British Columbia, and has four chil- 
dren — Dorcas, Mabel, Henry, and Edward. 

Stephen Clark was born in Nova Scotia, and 
was there bred and educated. Removing to 
Wood Point, Sackville, N.B., with his parents, 
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when he embarked in mercantile business, in 
which he has been very successfully engaged 
until the present time. In religion he is an 
agnostic. By his union with Mary Jane Dugan 
he has three children, namely: William, the 
special subject of this sketch; Jane, who is the 
wife of John Campbell, of St. John, N.B., and 
has two children — Owen and Edward; and 
Mary, wife of Seward Johnson, of this Prov- 
ince, and mother of three children — Herbert, 
Yiola, and John. 

William Clark attended the schools at Wood 
Point during the days of his boyhood and 
youth, and subsequentl}' made several voyages 
to the East Indies, to I-Curopean and other for- 
eign ports, going as a common sailor. When 
tired of life on the ocean, he engaged in the 
business of stone cjuarrying at Wood Point, 
continuing thus employed until 1897, when he 
retired from that work in order to devote his 
whole time and energ)' to the care of his 
father's store, of which he had had the practi- 
cal control for five previous years. He has a 
large and remunerative trade in general mer- 
chandise. A man of progressive ideas, genu- 
inely interested in local matters, he is a lib- 
eral supporter of all movements likely to 
advance the welfare of the town and county. 
Mr. Clark has_ served as Town Councillor two 
terms, having been elected to that office in 
1895 and re-elected in 1897. He is a Conserv- 
ative in politics and an agnostic in theology. 

On September 18, 1888, he married Cassie 
C, daughter of Timothy Richardson, of Wood 
Point. Of this union three children have been 
born; namely, Viola, Seward, and William H. 




rt^l ENRY MAXWELL, a retired lumber 
manufacturer of St. John, is a native 
of the north of Ireland. He was 
born May 7, 1806, son of Henry and Mary 
(Rowentree) Ma.xwell. His ancestors came 
from Scotland. In 1826 he crossed the ocean 
to New Brunswick, and locating in St. John 
was first employed in loading vessels with lum- 
ber. He later worked in a shipyard for a year, 
and then betook himself to the wilderness, 
where in due time he cleared a good farm situ- 
ated on the Gagetown Road, at what is now 
Summer Llill. After an experience of seven 
years as a farmer, he returned to St. John, and, 
resuming work in a shipyard, continued in that 
occupation for the succeeding three years. He 
then engaged in preparing timber for ship- 
building jDurposes, from which developed the 
extensive and successful business carried on by 
him for so many years, and upon his retirement 
he was succeeded by his sons. After retiring 
from the lumber business he turned his atten- 
tion to the improvement of real estate, and 
erected ten fine dwelling-houses, four of which 
were afterward destroyed by fire. 

On February 11, 1835, Mr. Maxwell was 
united in marriage with Eliza Corbctt, who 
came from Ireland with her father, James Cor- 
bett, in 1820. The late Joseph Medill, of the 
Chicago Tribune, was her nephew. Mr. and 
Mrs. Maxwell have had twelve children, namely : 
William Henry, of San Francisco, Cal. ; James 
C, of Fredericton, N.B. ; Richard, Samuel R., 
and Charles H., all of St. John; Jane M., who 
married Richard Holt, of Selkirk, Man., and 
died in 1886; Mary, widow of Lewis W. Ling- 



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ley, late of St. John; Alice E., wife of 
Judge G. W. Burbidge, of Ottawa; Ann E. 
C, wife of VV. r. Court, of St. John; Bertha 
P., who married John S. Hale, of Ottawa; 
Emma C, who married R. W. McCart)', of St. 
John; and Ella Medill, wife of J. E. Narra- 
way, of Ottawa. 

Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, who have passed 
sixty-four years of their lives as man and wife, 
have found nothing but happiness in each 
other's society, and have lived to see their chil- 
dren well provided for. Although ninety-three 
years of age, Mr. Maxwell still retains much of 
the mental and physical vigor which character- 
ized him during his active years, and his 
strong constitution has enabled him to survive 
many of his business associates. For many 
years he was a class leader and a trustee of the 
Methodist church. 



M 



ANIEL MULLIN, O.C, one of the 
jN J leading members of his profession 
in St. John, N.B., his native city, 
is the son of Patrick Mullin and his wife, 
Catherine Rice, who, emigrating from Cork 
County, Ireland, first .settled in St. John, sub- 
sequently removed to Westmorland County, 
residing there on a farm for many years, and 
finally returned to St. John. It will thus be 
seen that the future lawyer in his youth com- 
muned with nature, and doubtless, amid New 
Brunswick forests primeval, did "find tongues 
in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons 
in stones, and good in everything." 

Mr. Mullin was educated in the public 



schools in Westmorland County and by the 
Christian Brothers, St. John. He studied law 
with the Hon. C. N. Skinner, O.C, the pres- 
ent Recorder of the city, was admitted an at- 
torney in June, 18S2, and called to the bar the 
following year. 

Entering into partnership with the Hon. J. 
Gordon Forbes, now Judge of the St. John 
County Court, under the firm name of Forbes 
& Mullin, he enjoyed with him for a period of 
five years an extensive practice in marine and 
mercantile law. Subsequently associating 
himself with Richard ¥. Ouigley, Ph.D., 
LL.D., Q.C., the firm of Ouigley & Mullin 
became widely known, having been engaged in 
many important cases with marked success. 

Mr. Mullin has been practising on his own 
account for the past few years. He was re- 
cently appointed by the Lieutenant Governor 
in Council of New Brunswick one of Her 
Majesty's Counsel, learned in the law, his 
Commission, under the Great Seal of the Prov- 
ince, dating July 28, 1899. 

His reputation for integrity and honorable 
conduct is of the highest, while his success as 
a lawyer has been notable in all branches of 
the profession. It is in the criminal courts, 
however, that he has attained his greatest dis- 
tinction. His achievements in the defence of 
prisoners have been indeed remarkable, and he 
is to-day regarded as probabl}' the most power- 
ful advocate at the bar in such cases. 

Essentially modest, as he is known to be, he 
could make the proud boast (were it not for his 
rigid regard for truth, which as a lawyer is not 
the least of his merits, and which compels him 




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to acknowledge one solitary exception) that he 
never lost a criminal case before a jury, though 
he has been engaged in a great number of 
them. Triumph has followed triumph, and 
within the last few years he has had an un- 
broken series of a dozen such victories to his 
credit. He jDossesses in an eminent degree 
the qualities which go to the make-up of the 
successful nisi prills advocate, his predominant 
characteristic being intense force coupled with 
consummate tact and an intuitive knowledge of 
human nature. 

When thoroughly aroused, his forensic elo- 
quence is of a high order, and has been greatly 
admired. His speech in the defence of Horace 
G. Burton, who was brought from Toronto on 
a warrant charging him with embezzlement of 
a large sum of money from his employers, 
Messrs. P. F. Collier & Co. (a New York pub- 
lishing house with a branch in St. John, of 
which Burton had been manager), and tried in 
the St. John County Court in May, 1897, was 
pronounced by many persons who heard it to 
be the finest address delivered in the St. John 
court-house since S. R. Thomson's famous 
speech in the Munroe murder trial thirty years 
ago. On this occasion Mr. Mullin's address, 
which was a merciless criticism of the methods 
pursued by the parties behind the prosecution 
and an impassioned appeal to the sympathies 
of the jury, occupied o\'er two hours in delivery 
and evoked deep emotion, causing many of the 
jury and spectators, as well as the prisoner 
himself, to shed tears. On being acquitted. 
Burton, with an excess of feeling, dramatically 
embraced his counsel. The case excited much 



interest; and the unexpected acquittal of the 
prisoner, who was a comparative stranger in 
the city and whose doom to incarceration for a 
long term in the penitentiary had been a fore- 
gone conclusion in public estimation, though 
a great surprise, produced a revulsion of senti- 
ment on the part of the public toward him. 

Although Mr. Mullin, by force of merit 
alone, now practically monopolizes this branch 
of the profession in St. John, yet he has no 
special liking for it, and prefers his general 
practice, which is large and varied and con- 
stantly increasing. 

Mr. Mullin is a Liberal-Conservative in 
politics, enjoying a high reputation as an 
orator on political subjects, and taking an ac- 
tive interest in the welfare of his party, which 
he believes is still, as it was in days gone by, 
the truest exponent of Canadian nationality, as 
well as the ever loyal guardian of the best in- 
terests of the Empire, faithful alike to its 
ideals in power or out of it. 

Mr. Mullin is yet a young man on the sunny 
side of forty. He is a Catholic in religion, 
a Referee in Equity, a bachelor, and a member 
of the Union Club. Residence, Carvill Hall, 
St. John, N.B. 



(^AMES KENNEDY, president of the 
Canadian Drug Company, St. John, was 
born in Ayrshire, Scotland, March, 
1835, ^on of George and Mary (Gray) Ken- 
nedy. The death of his parents, which oc- 
curred when he was twelve years old, threw him 
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upon farms until 1857, when he emigrated to 
New Brunswicl<. Resuming his previous oc- 
cupation after his arrival, he later took charge 
of a large farm in Moncton, N. B. , where he 
remained about two years. Coming to St. 
John in 1861, he entered the employ of the 
wholesale and retail grocery firm of Jardine & 
Co., with whom he remained twelve years; and 
in 1873 he established himself in the whole- 
sale fish and provision business on South 
Wharf. For the succeeding twenty years he 
carried on a profitable mercantile business, and 
also acquired large shipping interests, having 
built five ships, the chartering of which he 
attended to personally, and being part owner in 
several others. Having disposed of his marine 
property with the exception of two ships, 
which he still owns, he retired from mercan- 
tile business in 1893, and for the past five 
years has been engaged in caring for his in- 
vestments. He has been president of the 
Canadian Drug Company ever since its organ- 
ization in 1895, and he was the official head 
of the Joggins Coal Mining Association, which 
sold its property in 1892. His prominence in 
the business circles of St. John has been at- 
tained solely through his ability, perseverance, 
and progressive instincts. 

Mr. Kennedy was married in 1S60 to Miss 
Isabella Longhead. They have had seven chil- 
dren, namely : Mary Gray, wife of the Rev. 
L. G. Macneill, pastor of St. Andrew's Pres- 
byterian Church, St. John; William Ramsay, 
master of the ship "Cleadmoor, " owned by his 
father; James Kerr Kennedy, who died in 
Idaho at the age of twenty-eight years ; Isabel 



Margaret, who died at the age of two years; 
David Alexander and George Kerr, merchants 
in this city; and Robert J., who died at the 
age of six months. 

Mr. Kennedy belongs to the Masonic order, 
and is president of the Thistle Curling Club, 
of which he has been a member ever since its 
organization, some twenty-two years ago. In 
his religious belief he is a Presbyterian, and 
is one of the elders of St. Andrew's Church. 




RLANDO H. WARWICK, of St. 

John, wholesale and retail dealer in 
crockery and china ware, was born in 
St. John, January 23, 1849, son of William 
and Susanna (Hayward) W^arwick. 

William Warwick, born in Digby, N. S., 
was the son of a Loyalist settler from Virginia. 
He received his education in St. John, N. B. , 
and on reaching manhood engaged in the hard- 
ware business in that city. Subsequently he 
went into the shipping and commission busi- 
ness, and at one time was in the grocery busi- 
ness. In 1852, without relinquishing his 
shipping and commission operations, he en- 
gaged in the crockery business with Mr. Will- 
iam H. Hayward, Mr. Hayward having charge 
of the crockery department. The firm contin- 
ued until 1873, when Mr. Warwick sold out to 
his partner. Among other business enterprises 
Mr. Warwick established the manufacture of 
pottery in St. John. 

He was an active member of the Methodist 
church, and took an especial interest in Sun- 
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organized a Sunday-school on the Marsh Road, 
furnishing and fitting up a room at their own 
expense. This was afterward merged into 
the Exmouth Street Methodist Sunday-school. 
His interest in Sunday-schools was not con- 
fined to those of his own denomination, but 
embraced others of all the evangelical denom- 
inations. 

His wife was a daughter of William Hay- 
ward, of Sussex, N.B. They had two chil- 
dren, namely: Orlando H., the special sub- 
ject of this sketch ; and Sarah M., who is the 
wife of \V. F. Linton, of Truro, N. S. After 
giving up his business in St. John, Mr. War- 
wick removed to Lawrencetown, N. S., where 
he resided until his death, which occurred on 
October 25, 1890. Mrs. Warwick, who sur- 
vives her husband, is now a resident of Truro, 
N.S. 

Orlando H. Warwick was reared and edu- 
cated in his native city, St. John. In 1864 
he went to St. Stephen, N. B. , with his cousin 
James S. Clark, whom Mr. William War- 
wick, his father, had started there in the crock- 
ery business. Subsequently returning to St. 
John, in 1865 he entered the store carried on 
by his father and Mr. Hayward, where he was 
employed as clerk until 1870. In that year 
he became a member of the firm, and so re- 
mained until 1873, when Mr. Hayward pur- 
chased the business. In 1877 he established 
his present business on the north side of King 
Street, where he conducted it for some ten 
years. In 1887 he removed to his present 
commodious quarters on the south side of King 
Street, where he now carries on the laroest 



wholesale and retail crockery and china ware 
business in the Maritime Provinces. He is a 
member of the Quarterly Board of the Queen's 
Street Methodist Church and treasurer of the 
St. John Protestant Orphan Asylum. Mr. 
Orlando H. Warwick married in 1875 Miss 
Ida May Lockhart, a daughter of the late 
Alexander Lockhart, a prominent .ship-owner 
of St. John, formerly of St. Martins. Mr. and 
Mrs. Warwick have five children — George, 
Ida May, William, Orlando H., Jr., and 
Charles J. 



T^ETP:R McSWEENEY, a prominent 
business man of Moncton, N. B. , has 
been intimately associated with its 
mercantile interests for three decades, and by 
his upright dealings has won the respect and 
esteem of all with whom he has come in con- 
tact. He was born in Moncton, April 11, 
1842, a son of Peter and Joanna (Downing) 
McSweeney. (Further parental history may 
be found in connection with the sketch of his 
brother, George McSweeney, on another page 
of this work.) .. ■. , .. .: . 

Peter McSweeney received his education in 
the schools of Moncton, and when but a youth 
went to St. John, where he was employed as 
clerk in a store for thirteen consecutive years. 
Returning to Moncton in 1868, he became a 
member of the firm of McSweeney Brothers, 
which for several years dealt extensively in 
carpets and furniture. In 1878 he opened his 
present store, which is devoted to the sale of 
dry goods and gentlemen's furnishing goods, in 



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which he has a large trade. From the start he 
has met with success in his dealings, and has 
now the leading establishment of the kind in 
the vicinity. Mr. McSweeney is identified 
with the Liberal part)- in politics, and has 
ably filled various offices of trust. He was for 
two years a member of the Town Council, and 
served as chairman of the Almshouse Commit- 
tee and as the chairman of its Board of Trus- 
tees. On March i6, 1899, Mr. McSweeney 
was appointed Senator of Canada. 

Mr. McSweeney was married November 11, 
1873, to Mrs. Wilhelmina Fisher, widow of 
the late Peter Fisher, of St. John, N. R. 
Three children have been born of this union; 
namely, Cora, Algernon C, and Wilhelmina. 



/^STeORGE McSweeney, of Moncton, 
\mJ_ N. B. , is familiarly known to the 
travelling public as the proprietor of the 
Brunswick Hotel, a deservedly popular house, 
well patronized by home and foreign tourists. 
He was born in Moncton, January 22, 1859, a 
son of the late Peter McSweeney, who for 
nearly half a century was conspicuously identi- 
fied with the growth and development of this 
section of Westmorland County. 

Peter McSweeney was reared to manhood in 
Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland, where he 
received a fine P^nglish and classical education, 
which was further advanced by a course of 
study at the college of Maynooth, in Leinster, 
County Kildare. In 1837 he came with his 
bride to New Brunswick, and, having secured 
a position as teacher in Hillsboro, Albert 



County, taught there for three years, succeed- 
ing the Hon. John Lewis, M. L. C. , and the 
late Hon. W. H. Steeves. Coming then to 
the "Bend," as Moncton was called, he in- 
vested largely in real estate in its vicinity, 
buying with a wise forethought property that 
steadily rose in value and within a few years 
proved to be very desirable. Realizing the 
future prosperity awaiting this rapidly growing 
town, he hesitated not to purchase, as oppor- 
tunity afforded, such lots as the one now owned 
and occupied by Norman Beaton, at the corner 
of Main and Telegraph Streets, the corner 
occupied by Edward Allen & Co., at the junc- 
tion of Main and Duke Streets, and the lot 
now occupied by B. Toombs & Co., on the cor- 
ner of Main and Pleasant Streets. He erected 
for his own residence the second house put up 
on Steadman Street. He also owned the home- 
stead property on the Mountain Road and other 
estates of value. His last purchase was the 
block on the corner of Main and Downing 
Streets. His excellent business judgment led 
him to make extensive purchases in other sec- 
tions of the Province, including St. John, 
Kings, Albert, and Kent Counties, in all of 
which he bought and sold considerable realty. 
For many years he was one of the most promi- 
nent general merchants of Moncton, as well as 
an operator in real estate; but about fifteen 
years prior to his death, which occurred in 
December, 1876, he retired from active pur- 
suits, content to enjoy the competency which 
he liad acquired by prudence and foresight. 
In politics he was a Liberal, and, besides being 
one of the first Magistrates appointed in West- 




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morland County, he had the distinction of 
being the very first Roman Catholic to hold 
the office. His wife, whose maiden name was 
Joanna Downing, died in 1876. They were 
the parents of seventeen children, of whom two 
sons and seven daughters are now living, 
namely: Peter, of whom a biography appears 
elsewhere in this volume; George, the subject 
of this sketch; Milcah, wife of Heiny Yonge, 
superintendent of the Southern Division of the 
Mexican National Railway; Mary, wife of 
Edgar L. Newhouse, superintendent of the 
Mexican Guadalupe Mining Company; Lucy, 
wife of J. J. Walker, of the accountant's office 
of the Intercolonial Railway in Moncton ; 
Ellen; Agnes; Joanna; and Kate. 

George McSvveeney graduated from the 
Memrancook College in 1873, and three years 
later entered into business with his brothers as 
one of the firm of McSweeney Brothers, in 
which he continued until 1882. He was sub- 
sequently in business alone for a short time, 
for two years dealing successfully in furniture 
and carjDCts. In May, 1884, desirous of mak- 
ing a radical change, he purchased the prop- 
erty known as the Weldon House, which he 
enlarged, remodelled, and refurnished, and has 
since conducted with eminent success under 
its present title of the Brunswick Hotel. 
In politics Mr. McSweeney is a Liberal, and 
since attaining his majority has taken an in- 
telligent interest in public affairs. In 1885, 
1886, and 1887 he served as American Consul, 
and for four years he represented Ward Three 
in the Town Council. 

In September, 1887, Mr. McSweeney mar- 



ried Beatrice, daughter of the late Hon. John 
Lefurgey, of Summerside, P.E.I. They have 
two children — John L. and Dorothy D. 



"s^OSEPH D. MAHER, D.D.S., a rising 
young dentist, was born in what was 
then known as Portland, N.B. , but 
which is now included in the city of St. John. 
He is a son of the late Joseph and Mary E. 
(Delaney) Maher. 

His grandparents were John and Mary 
Maher, Maurice and Anna Delaney. The 
grandfather Maher was for many years a ship- 
builder in this Province. He died about 1867. 
He was the father of eight sons. Of these 
the only one living is Henry Maher, who has 
carried on the grocery business in St. John for 
many years. 

Joseph Maher, Dr. Maher' s father, was a 
surveyor of recognized ability, and followed 
that business until his death, which occurred 
about the year 1872. Mr.s. Mary E. Maher, a 
very beautiful woman, who was the mother of 
seven children, died shortly after her husband. 
She was the daughter of Maurice Delaney, who 
was one of the earliest settlers and one of the 
most respected citizens of the old town of Port- 
land. The surviving children of Joseph and 
Mary Maher are : Maude ; and Joseph D. , the 
subject of this sketch. Maude is now Madame 
Maher of the Sacred Heart Convent, and is at 
present located in Halifax, N. S. 

Joseph D. Maher, who is still single and 
generally spoken of as pretty comfortable, pur- 
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and completed his education at St. Mary's 
College, Montreal. 

He began his professional studies in iS86, 
graduated from the Boston Dental College in 
June, iScSg, and at the conclusion of a post- 
graduate course at the American College of 
Dental Surgery, Chicago, in 1893, he was 
awarded special honors for extraordinary pro- 
ficiency. While pursuing his professional 
studies he visited some of the principal dental 
hospitals in Kurope, and the knowledge de- 
rived from his careful observation contributed 
much, no doubt, to the wonderful success he 
has attained. In the fall of 1889 he began the 
practice of his profession in the North End, 
where he almost immediately acquired popu- 
larity; and his ability as a dentist has brought 
him a large business, which is constantly in- 
creasing. 

Dr. Maher is entitled to practise in New 
York State, and is also the only dentist in 
New Brunswick entitled to practise in the 
Province of Nova Scotia, being fully registered 
in both places. 

Dr. Maher's ability as a dentist may be 
judged by the fact that he possesses excellent 
testimonials from the governor, premier, the 
late ex-premier, members of the government 
council of New Brunswick, the mayor of St. 
John, and many others. 

In 1895 he advanced the idea of establishing 
compulsory examination of children's teeth, 
and his communication to the school board 
upon that subject was very fax'orably received 
by the public. 

His parlors, offices, and laboratory are 



among the finest in the Dominion, and he 
employs a staff of skilled assistants. He is a 
prominent member of the New Brunswick 
Dental Association, which he helped to form. 
Dr. Maher lives at the Victoria Hotel, King 
Street. He is a member of the Union Club, 
and has a host of friends. 




ILLIAM MURDOCK, civil engineer 
and superintendent of the sewer and 
water departments, .St. John, was born in Pais- 
ley, Scotland, April 16, 1848, son of William 
and Margaret (Smith) Murdock. 

William Murdock, Sr. , was born in Paisley 
in 1823. Learning the shoemaker's trade, and 
succeeding when a young man to the business 
established by his father, he carried it on for 
a number of years. In 1854 he was induced to 
come to St. John by his brother Gilbert, who 
emigrated in 1842, and who was superintend- 
ent of the water works from 1849 '■mtil his 
death, which occurred in 1894. On his arri- 
val in St. John, William Murdock, Sr. , entered 
a clothing store carried on b)' Cockburn and 
Gilbeit Murdock, but later took an interest in 
the Albert House on Market Square, with 
which he was connected for a year. He was 
then appointed by the government to manufact- 
ui-e gas for Partridge Island Light, and, re- 
signing from the service in 1S58, he obtained 
employment as one of the first of the conduc- 
tors of the European and North American, now 
Intercolonial, Railway. Resigning that posi- 
tion a little later, he turned his attention to 
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had a decided preference, and about this time 
he published a volume of poems, which was 
favorably received by the public. He was for 
a while connected with the Scottish American 
of New York, and, after working at the shoe- 
maker's trade a short time, he turned his atten- 
tion wholly to newspaper work, which he fol- 
lowed successfully for the next few years, ren- 
dering valuable service to the JMoming A^etvs 
and the Telegraph. He was a member of the 
St. Andrews Society. William Murdock, Sr. , 
died May 4, 1877. His wife, Margaret, 
whom he married in 1844, was the mother of 
eight children, namely: John, a resident of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; William, the subject of this 
sketch; George, who resides in Calgary, 
North-west Territory, and was its first mayor; 
Gilbert, who was drowned at Pugwash in 18S4; 
Margaret, who died at the age of twenty-three; 
Mary, who died in infancy; Joseph, who re- 
sides in St. John ; and Mary, second. The 
first four were born in Scotland, the last four 
being natives of St. John. The mother died 
August 28, 1887. 

William Murdock, son of William and Mar- 
garet, was educated in the St. John public 
schools. After the completion of his course 
of study he began to serve an apprenticeship 
in a foundry, where he remained until twenty- 
one, and while learning his trade he spent his 
evenings in studying civil engineering under 
the guidance of Messrs. Minnette and Wel- 
ton. Having passed a successful examination 
for the crown land service, he was appointed 
Deputy Surveyor, a position which he held for 
a number of years; and during that time he 



did considerable surveying for private parties. 
In 1894 he was appointed to succeed his uncle 
as superintendent of the water works, and this 
position, together with that of engineer of 
the sewer department, he is now filling with 
marked ability. Like his father, he possesses 
a taste for journalistic work, and at one time 
was a regular reporter for the daily papers. 

In January, 1876, Mr. Murdock was united 
in marriage with Miss Mary Augusta Arm- 
strong, a native of Greenhead Parish, of Lan- 
caster, N.B. , and a daughter of Joseph Arm- 
strong. They have eleven children; namely, 
Gilbert Gray, Frank S. , Arthur W., Jessie, 
Robert J., Margaret, Elsie, Douglas Roy, 
Alice, Mary, and Helen. 

Mr. Murdock was formerly a member of sev- 
eral temperance societies, also of the Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows, and is now a mem- 
ber of St. Andrews Society. He and his fam- 
ily attend St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 
of which his jjarejits were members. 



WILLIAM HICK 
one of the mo.'^ 



MAN, for many years 
ost energetic and enter- 
prising business men of Dorchester, N. B. , is 
now living retired from active pursuits, al- 
though much of his leisure time is occupied in 
attending to his private interests. He was 
born September 13, 1823, in Dorchester, a son 
of John Hickman, Jr., an early settler of this 
section of Westmorland County. 

John Hickman, Sr. , his paternal grand- 
father, was born and brought up in Holland, 
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ing. Emigrating from there to Ireland in 
early mature life, he settled in Derry, from 
which place he and five of his brothers enlisted 
in the British army. His brothers were all 
killed at the famous battle of Waterloo, after 
which he returned to his home in Uerry, 
where he devoted himself to the care of his 
aged parents, and spent the remainder of his 
life. 

John Hickman, Jr., son of John, Sr., was 
born in the north of Ireland, and there grew to 
man's estate. Soon after his marriage with 
Mary Campbell, a bonnie Scotch lassie, he left 
the Emerald Isle, and, coming to the British- 
American Provinces, located first at Halifax, 
N. S., but soon removed to Dorchester, N. B. , 
which he made his permanent residence. 
After working at the shoemaker's trade for a 
few years, he opened a hotel, and this he con- 
ducted with great success until his retirement 
from business, about six years prior to his 
death, which occurred when he was seventy 
years old. He was a Liberal in politics and 
a citizen of worth. His widow survived him, 
attaining a venerable age. Of their nine chil- 
dren three are now living; namely, William, 
the special subject of this sketch; Mary Jane; 
and Susan. 

William Hickman was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Dorchester. For about four 
years during his youth and early manhood he 
followed the sea. He subsequently embarked 
in the hotel business in Dorchester, and also 
engaged to a considerable extent in ship-build- 
ing. The latter industry proved so engross- 
ing that Mr. Hickman disposed of his hotel, in 



order that he might give his whole time to 
commercial and manufacturing pursuits. He 
built four ships at Lower Hillsboro and 
twenty-five barques and ships on Dorchester 
Island. For several years he was the leading 
spirit in the development of the shipping trade, 
which was then at its height in this part of the 
country, and not only built ships, but stocked 
them and sent them to foreign ports. He es- 
tablished an extensive domestic and foreign 
trade, which he continued for some time. 
Fle was also interested in various town enter- 
prises until his retirement from active pursuits 
in 1889. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belong- 
ing to the Dorchester Lodge, F. & A. M. 

Mr. Hickman has been four times married. 
His jDresent wife was formerly Miss Harriet 
Cochrane, of Dorchester. His only child, 
Charles S. Flickman, is the son of his third 
wife, whose maiden name was Margaret 
Furnes. 



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HOMAS BARRY, for many years a 
a)| prominent citizen of St. George, Char- 
lotte County, N.B., was born in this parish, 
April II, 1821, and died at his home in 1895, 
aged seventy-four years. His father was born 
and brought up in Ireland, whence he emi- 
grated to this country when he was 3'oung, and 
located in the town of St. George. He worked 
as a lumberman, and while yet in the prime of 
a vigorous manhood was accidental!}- killed by 
the falling of a tree. 

Thomas Barry was educated in the common 
schools, and, ha\'ing been left fatherless at an 
early age, was thrown upon his own resources 




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wlien but a bo}'. Energetic, industrious, and 
thrifty, he succeeded in his undertakings, and 
became an excellent representative of the self- 
made men of his day. He first embarked in 
business for himself as a general merchant, 
and soon after turned his attention to lumber- 
ing. He began on a modest scale, but gradu- 
ally enlarged his operations, and, in addition 
to buying timber lands, invested largely in 
milling property and farms, his purchases in 
this line extending for several miles. He 
built at one time a large mill, well equipped 
with all the requisite machinery for immediate 
work; but which, however, was never used for 
sawing lumlier, as the memorable "Saxby 
gale," which levelled the timber and destroyed 
the forests for many miles, practically crippled 
the lumber industry for a time. He subse- 
quently gave up the manufacturing of lumber, 
all of the principal mills of this section having 
been more or less injured by the gale; and 
for a time he was prominently connected with 
the Bay of Fundy Red Granite Works as one 
of the leading stockholders of the company 
that controlled them. Mr. Barry was also in- 
terested in the railway systems of the prov- 
ince, and for nine )'ears was president of the 
Grand Southern, now the Shore, Railway. 
He was a Conservative in politics. He also 
took an active part in town matters, and for a 
number of years was Justice of the Peace. He 
was a member of the Church of England and 
for several years a vestryman of the Parish 
Church at St. George. 

On May i6, 1853, Mr. Barry married Jane, 
daughter of William and Mary Russell. She 



died a few years later, leaving two children, 
namel)' : William R. , who graduated from 
Bowdoin College, Me., and after receiving the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine was ensrae,ed in 
the practice of his profession at St. Stephen 
and St. George until his death, eight years 
later; and Jennie, educated at St. Catherine 
Hall, Augusta, Me., and now the wife of 
Harry Goodenow, Esq. On July 16, 1866, 
Mr. Barry married Sophia, daughter of Samuel 
and Mai'y Aim Wallace. Miss Wallace was 
educated at a jjrivate school in St. John, N. B. , 
under Mrs. Hunt. 




ILL! AM COLWELE, formerly a 
well-known fish dealer of St. John, 
was born March 19, 1808, son of John and 
Mary (Hutchings) Colwell. His grandfather 
Colwell came to New Brunswick with the 
Loyalists in 1783, and settled near Long Inlet, 
Queens County, where he followed farming. 

John Colwell passed his youth on his father's 
farm, and, after attaining to years of maturity, 
was for a time engaged in agriculture. Sub- 
sequently forsaking this occupation, he engaged 
in fishing, which he followed for many years. 
His wife, Mary Hutchings Colwell, was, like 
himself, of Loyalist descent. They had a 
family of five sons and three daughters, 
namely: Elizabeth, now deceased, who was 
the wife of Thomas Theal, of Carleton ; Will- 
iam, the subject of this sketch; James; Levi; 
John ; Susan, who married Charles Hamm, 
of Carleton; Robert; and Mary. The last 
named died when about sixteen years old. 



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John Colwell, the father, died in 1853, at the 
age of seventy-four years. His wife survived 
him seven years, dying in November, i860. 

William Colwell, after attending the com- 
mon schools in his boyhood, engaged in the 
fish business, which he followed for many 
years. In 1871 he and his son, Enoch B. , 
formed a partnership as wholesale dealers in 
all kinds of fresh and salt water fish and 
Liverpool salt, which business they conducted 
together until his death in 1875. William Col- 
well was one of the prominent merchants of the 
place, and was much respected for his sterling 
personal character. He was a charter member 
and the first treasurer of the Masonic lodge in 
Carleton. He was also a Deacon of the Bap- 
tist church for many years. , 

In 1829 Mr. Colwell married Millicent, 
daughter of Charles Hamm, Grand Bay, Kings 
County, now deceased. She was born in 1809, 
and died in 1894, surviving her husband nine- 
teen years. Their children were five in num- 
ber; namely, William, Charles, Susan, Milli- 
cent, and Enoch B. Their son William, who 
for fifteen years held a government position in 
the custom-house, subsequently went to the 
United States. Charles followed fishing for a 
few years, then engaged in the grocery busi- 
ness, in which he continued until his death, in 
the spring of 1898. Susan is the wife of Dr. 
James S. White, of Hartland, Carleton County, 
N.B. Millicent is the wife of Thomas Thomp- 
son, a contractor of St. John. 

Enoch B. Colwell, born in 1849, was edu- 
cated in the [Uiblic schools of Carleton. In 
1871 he engaged in the fish business with his 



father, the firm being known as William Col- 
well & Son. Since the death of the elder 
partner the younger has conducted the business 
alone, dealing in fish, salt, and coal. He does 
an extensive business, his markets being prin- 
cipally in the United States. He was elected 
to the City Council in 1878 from Guy's Ward, 
re-elected in 1882, and again in 1894 and 
1899. In politics he is a Conservative. 




ri)1lENRY PHIPPS OTTY, a well-known 
citizen of St. John, was born in that 
city on January 31, 1824, his par- 
ents being Captain Allan and Elizabeth 
(Crookshank) Otty. His father, Captain 
Allan Otty, was born in the old Danish town 
of Whitby, Yorkshire, England, on November 
18, 1784; and he entered the British navy 
Augu.st 15, 1803, on board the guard-ship 
"Haldar. " From 1806 until his promotion 
to the rank of lieutenant on April 4, iSio, he 
served chiefly in the capacity of master's mate, 
a rating he attained to on May 9, 1805. After 
passing through various ranks, he was commis- 
sioned commander on the first day of July, 
1S15. Captain Otty's marriage took place on 
August 8, 1 8 18. He died at Darling Island, 
Kings County, on March 15, 1859, at the age 
of seventy-four years; and his wife, whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth Crookshank, died 
in the same place on August 8, 1852, at fifty- 
one years of age. They were the parents of 
the following-named ciiildrcn: Andrew C, 
(jcorge, Catherine M., Henry Phipps, Thomas 
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William. Andrew C. Otty was a Brigade 
Major in the militia, and took an active part in 
suppressing the Fenian disturbances. He died 
at the age of fifty-six years. George was a 
barrister and later Judge of Probate for Kings 
County, New Brunswick. Catherine Magi 11 
married Dr. S. Z. Earle, of St. John. 
Thomas J. was drowned while a young man, 
when the "Avenger" was wrecked in the 
Mediterranean Sea. Allan C, Robert, and 
Elizabeth are deceased. 

Henry Phipps Otty was educated at the 
grammar school in St. John. After leaving 
school he engaged in the lumber business, and 
in 1872 built a saw-mill at Hampton, Kings 
County, which he conducted for several years. 
In 1863 he entered Her Majesty's service in 
the post-office department, where he remained 
until his retirement in February, 1895. He 
was married on New Year's Day, 1S51, to 
Hetty Howe, who was born in Halifax on 
November 25, 1827. Her father, John Howe, 
was Postmaster-General of the Maritime Prov- 
inces. Mrs. Otty died on June 3, 1S93. 
Her daughter, Elizabeth Crookshank Otty, 
married Judge Alfred W. Savary, M.A. , of 
Digby, N.S., and became the mother of four 
children. Mr. Otty is a member of the Church 
of England. 




]DWARD J. KENNEDY, a representa- 
tive of one of the oldest business 
firms in St. John, was born in Boston, Mass., 
June 3, 1S34, a son of William and Mary A. 
(Swords) Kennedy. 



William Kennedy, who was of Scotch ances- 
try, was born in Ireland in 181 2. When four- 
teen years of age he left his native land and, 
unattended, went to Boston, Mass., where he 
found employment with Sumner Hudson & 
Co., provision dealers, with whom he remained 
for sixteen years. In 1847 he came to St. 
John and established a grocery business on 
King Street, which he conducted successfully 
until his death, a period of over half a century. 
He took a great interest in the I. O. O. F., of 
which he was a member for over sixty years, 
having been one of the organizers and a charter 
member of the lodge. He was married in 1S32 
to Miss Mary A. Swords, a native of Boston 
and daughter of Edward and Isabella Swords, 
she being on the paternal side of Irish ancestry. 
Four children were born of this union, namely: 
Edward J., the subject of this sketch; Su.san, 
now deceased, who was the wife of the late 
Stephen Case; William L., who died at the 
age of twenty-two years; and Freeland, a physi- 
cian, who, after practising his profession for 
two years in St. John, died at the age of thirty, 
leaving a wife, daughter of the Rev. Dr. James 
Bennett, of St. John, and one child. One of 
the leading merchants of the city. William 
Kennedy was widely known and respected; 
and his death, which occurred in 1896, was 
much regretted. His wife died in 1S88, at 
the age of seventy-three years. 

Edward J. Kennedy came to St. John when 
a lad of twelve years. He was educated in the 
school on Cobury Street, under Mr. William 
Mills. After leaving school he entered his 
father's store, and upon his father's death 



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succeeded to the business. In 1899, after the 
business had been conducted on King Street for 
fifty-two years, Mr. Kennedy removed to his 
present large store on Waterloo Street, where 
he now does the leading business in his line in 
St. John. 

He was married in 1S6S to Miss Margaret 
Austin, a daughter of Henry and Susan 
(Wright) Austin, of St. John. His family 
consists of three children: P^dward T., who is 
associated with him in the business; Susan A., 
who lives with her parents; and William L., a 
painter, residing in St. John. 



(f; 



HARLES E. KNAPP, a prominent 
I lawyer of Dorchester, N.B. , is well 
known throughout Westmorland 
County, in connection with the business of its 
courts, as a man of pronounced legal ability. 
Pie was born at Fort Cumberland, in this 
county, March 15, 1826, a son of William D. 
Knapp. The Knapp family were originally 
Germans, and spelled their name Cenoep 
until the reign of Henry VIII., when it 
was legally changed to its present form. The 
founder of the family in America emigrated 
from Suffolk, England, in 1632, and estab- 
lished himself as a householder at Rye, N.Y. , 
where his descendants lived until the close of 
the war of independeiTce. Timothy Knapp, 
the great-grandfather of Charles E. Knapp, 
married Mary'Adee, of Rye, N.Y. , the town 
in which their only child, Titus Knapp, was 
born. 

Titus Knapp spent his early life in the 



Province of New York, and as a Lieutenant in 
Delancey's Rangers was in the British ser- 
vice during the Revolution, and took an active 
part in many of its engagements. He was 
thrice wounded, once in the neck, once in the 
side, and also on the head by a sabre cut, and 
for three months was held prisoner at White 
Plains, N.Y. At the close of the war he came 
with the colony of Loyalists to the Provinces, 
and located at P'ort Cumberland, N.S., where 
he was prosperously engaged in mercantile and 
agricultural pursuits until his death, at the age 
of threescore and ten years. He became very 
actively identified with public affairs, and soon 
after taking up his residence in Westmorland 
County was a member of the Provincial Parlia- 
ment; and he also served as Justice of the 
Peace for a long time. He married Catherine, 
daughter of Major Dickson, who was in the 
British service as an officer in a New England 
regiment during the American Revolution. 
He had previously served in the French War, 
having been a participant in all important en- 
gagements with the excejition vi the taking of 
Louisburg, and, before removing to Nova Scotia, 
with other Loyalists assisted in the capture of 
Morro Castle, in Havana. 

William D. Knapp, the onh- child of Titus 
and Catherine Knapp, was born at the old 
homestead, at P'ort Cumberland, and there 
lived and died. He was highly educated, and, 
having inherited a good property, spent his 
seventy-five years of life as a gentleman farmer. 
Delicate from his }'outh up, for the last forty 
years he was an in\alid. His wife, Margaret 
Ouigley, was born in Digby, N. S., a daughter 




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of Winkworth Ouigley. She died at the age 
of seventy-one years. He was a Quaker, while 
she was a member of the Church of England. 
They reared thirteen children, of whom six- 
are living, namely : Charles E. ; Eliza, widow 
of William Woodman, late of Eastport, Me. ; 
Emeline, wife of the Rev. Herbert Jarvis, of 
Virginia; Charlotte, wife of William Porter, 
of Portland, Me. ; Mary, now living in Bos- 
ton; and Augusta, a resident of Fort Cumber- 
land, N.B. 

Charles E. Knapp attended first the common 
schools of Fort Cumberland, and was afterward 
a student at King's College, in Windsor, 
N. S. In 1846 he began the study of law with 
the late E. B. Chandler, subsequently gov- 
ernor of the Province, in Dorchester, N.B. , and 
for several years after being admitted attorney 
remained in his office. In 1857 he com- 
menced practising his profession throughout 
Westmorland County, and is still actively 
employed. In addition to other legal work, 
he is Clerk of the Peace, Keeper of the Rolls, 
and Registrar of Probate for the county. He 
is a Mason of high standing, belonging to 
Sussex Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M., of which 
he is Past Master. 

On August 30, 1848, Mr. Knapp married 
Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas Trenholm, of 
Pointe du Bute, N.B. She died in 1895, in 
the sixty-eighth year of her age, leaving six 
children, namely : Cassie, wife of Henry D. 
Harper, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who has one child, 
Donald; Ellen, widow of the late Alexander 
Nichols, of San Antonio, Tex., who has two 
children — Ada and Clara; Tammie, wife of 



the Rev. R. Barry Smith, of Buctouche, 
N.B. , who has six children — Charles, Robert, 
Catherine, Nellie, Sarah, and Dorothy; Julia, 
unmarried; Ada, wife of Irving Gollner, of 
Staten Island, N.Y. , who has five children; 
Leo; and Lizzie, wife of Theodore Chamber- 
lain, of New York City, who has four children. 
Mrs. Knapp was a member of the Baptist 
church, to which Mr. Knapp also belongs. 
The family arms, together with a full descrip- 
tion, may be found in the Herald's College, 
London. These arms were granted to Roger 
De Knapp, by Henry VIII., to commemo- 
rate his skill and success at a tournament held 
in Norfolk, England, in 1540, in which he is 
said to have unseated three knights of great 
skill and bravery. 



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ABRIEL MERRITT, a retired ship- 
\[^_1. builder of St. John, was born in 
Marlboro, Ulster County, N.Y. , November 9, 
1824, son of Gabriel, first, and Rebecca (Wet- 
more) Merritt. His grandparents were Josiah 
and Ann (Purdy) Merritt. Their eldest son, 
Gabriel, first, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was the second of their seven children. 
He was born in Marlboro, December 2, 1777, 
and on February 12, 1806, he married Rebecca 
Wetmore. She was born February 19, 1788, 
daughter of Izrahiah Wetmore, of Rye, Wes- 
chester County, N.Y. He was a son of James 
Wetmore. 

Gabriel Merritt, the fourth son of Gabriel, 
first, and Rebecca Merritt, was the tenth-born 
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in his native State. Having learned thie car- 
penter's trade, lie came to New Brunswick at 
the age of twenty-two, and, settling in Clifton, 
Kings County, was for some time engaged iri 
carpentering, ship-building, and the manufact- 
ure of lumber. One of his first building 
operations was the remodelling of the Episco- 
pal church in Kingston. He later became a 
member of the ship-building firm of Wetmore, 
Titus & Merritt, which carried on business for 
many years, and that this concern was promi- 
nently identified with the merchant-marine 
interests of this locality is attested by the 
following list of vessels launched from its 
yards: ships, "Muskoto," "Peacemaker"; 
barks, "Kingston," "Arbutus," "Carrier 
Dove," "Connaught, " "Director," "Enchant- 
ress," "Ingleside," "John Eills," "Moss 
Glen" (first), "Moss Glen" (second), "Pe- 
kin," "Shiela," "Seaward," "Volant"; 
barkentines, "Antilla," "Julia Fisher," 
"Merritt "; brigs, "Annie Barker," "Min- 
nie"; brigantines, "Artos, " "Buda, " 
"Echo," "Jumbo," "Natmoo, " "Signal," 
"Sunshine"; schooners, "Angelia," "Clif- 
ton," "Deer Hill," "Eltie," "Glen," 
"Hazelwoode, " "Inglewoode," "Julia A. 
Merritt," "Laurissa," "Mower," "R. A. 
Ford," "Reaper " "Thrasher"; and the pilot 
boat "Minnie Cline. " In 1S73 Mr. Merritt 
moved to St. John, and the first residence 
which he occupied was burned in the conflagra- 
tion of 1877. He continued to carry on busi- 
ness in Kings County for several years after 
his removal, or until 1893, when he sold his 
mill property to the Moss Glen Manufacturing 



Company. He is the owner of a large farm in 
Moss Glen, and in 1867 he brought from New 
York State the first cultivated strawberry, 
raspberry, and rhubarb plants ever transplanted 
in this province. 

On P""ebruary 29, 1848, Mr. Merritt con- 
tracted the first of his two marriages with 
Mary Elizabeth Flewelling, of Clifton, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Flewelling and a sister of the 
late Hon. William P. Flewelling. She died 
August 8, 1S78, and he subsequently married 
Mrs. Eliza Jane Puddington, daughter of 
David Wetmore, of Clifton, and widow of 
J. E. Puddington. Pie is the father of six 
children, all by his first wife, namely: Joseph 
Flewelling, born in Marlboro, N. Y. , February 
8, 1849; William Hawkesley, born in Clifton, 
Kings County, N.B., October 28, 1850; Jufia 
A., born in Ulster County, N. Y. , March 29, 
1852; Edward Henry, born in Clifton, April 
22, 1854; Gabriel W^etmore, born in Clifton, 
January 14, 1857; and Frank Stanley, born in 
Clifton, January 17, 1864. 

Joseph Flewelling Merritt after completing 
his education engaged in business with his 
father, and when a young man he made several 
voyages in order to familiarize himself with 
the working of a ship and the freight carrying 
business. In 1S72 he took a position in the 
store of Turnbull & Co., with whom he became 
associated as a partner in 1S78, the firm name 
being subsequently changed to its present 
style of Merritt Brothers & Co. They carry on 
an extensive wholesale grocery and shipping 
business, their sales amounting to two-thirds 
of a million dollars annual!)". Joseph F. 



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Merritt is largely interested in shipping. He 
is president of the Moss Glen Manufacturing 
Company and a heav)- stockholder in gold, 
silver, and copper mines. He was married on 
August 25, 1897, to Georgia J. M. Oakes, 
daughter of the late Hon. Edwin Randolph 
Oakes, of Digby, N. S. They have one daugh- 
ter, Mary Georgia, born November 19, 1898. 

William Hawkesley Merritt entered a coun- 
try store as a clerk at the age of thirteen years, 
and about eighteen months later he went to 
work in his father's shipyard, remaining one 
year. Coming to St. John when he was si.x- 
teen years old, he took a clerkship in the store 
of the late R. E. Puddington, later entering 
into partnership with R. E. and J. E. Pudding- 
ton, retail grocers at No. 55 Charlotte Street. 
After the death of R. E. Puddington the two 
surviving partners continued their association 
for a year, or until the death of Mr. J. E. 
Puddington, since which time the business has 
been conducted by Mr. Merritt under the firm 
name of Puddington & Merritt. He is also 
interested in shipping and the manufacture of 
lumber. On June 8, 1880, he married Lau- 
rissa Alma Hughes, daughter of the Rev. John 
Hughes, of St. John. They have three chil- 
dren — Charles Elting, Julia Hazelwoode, and 
Adah Laurissa. William H. Merritt was for- 
merly a warden of St. John's Church. 

Julia A. Merritt married Thomas Arm- 
strong, of St. John, N.B. , now residing in 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Edward Henry Merritt, who died November 
27, 1895, was manager of the Moss Glen Man- 
ufacturing Company and a business man of 



ability and integrity. I""or his first wife he 
married Charlotte A. Kierstead. She was 
born August 30, 1854, and died August 18, 
1889, leaving nine children, namely: Julia 
Bell, born March 6, 1875; Ira Cutten, born 
April 4, 1877; Charles Plolden, born Septem- 
ber 26, 1878; Orlin Lee, born January 3, 
1880; Harold Woodbury, born June 29, 1882; 
Cecil Ray, born October 5, 1883; Henry Clif- 
ford, born March 2, 1886; Gabriel Elden, 
born I<"ebruary 6, 1888; and Lew Ellis, born 
July' 27, 1889. His second wife, whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth Almira Flevvel- 
ling, is the mother of one son, Leslie Stratton 
Merritt. 

Gabriel Wetmore Merritt, who entered the 
employ of Turnbull & Co. at sixteen, and in 
1884 became a partner in the firm, is now 
associated with his brother, Joseph F. Merritt, 
in the firm of Merritt Brothers & Co. He is 
also interested in shipping and mining. He 
is president of the Union Club and of the 
Young Men's Liberal Club. He attends St. 
John's (Anglican) Church. On September 
12, 1888, he married Annie M. Worrall, 
daughter of H. F. Worrall, of Halifax, N. S. 
They have one son — Gabriel Guy, who was 
born December 2, 1 890. 

Frank Stanley Merritt came with his parents 
to St. John when nine years old, and after 
leaving school he became a clerk in the retail 
grocery store of Puddington &■ Merritt, where 
he is still employed. On June 8, 1892, he 
married Jennie Louise Butcher, who was 
born in this city, daughter of Frederick Ran- 
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Island. They have one son — Frederick Ger- 
ald, born April 3, 1897. Frank Stanley Mer- 
ritt belongs to the Knights of Pythias. 

The Merritt Brothers are able business men, 
and occupy a prominent place among the 
wealthy citizens of St. John. 



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LFRED E. HOLSTEAD, a well-known 
druggist of Moncton, N.B. , is a wide- 
awake, progressive business man 
and a citizen of influence. Son of the late 
Charles A. Holstead, he was born in Monc- 
ton on August 6, 1866. The family is of 
English origin. Mr. Holstead's grandfather, 
Charles Holstead, spent his early life in Eng- 
land, the country of his birth, but on reaching 
man's estate followed the tide of emigration 
westward. On reaching New Brunswick, he 
located at first in .St. John, but later removed 
to Moncton, which he made his permanent 
home. 

Charles A. Holstead was born in Moncton, 
N. B., where he obtained his elementary educa- 
tion. He afterward continued his studies at 
Mount Allison College, in Sackville, N.B., 
and was subsequently fitted for the bar in the 
law office of A. A. Stockton in St. John, 
l^eginning the practice of his profession in 
Moncton, he secured a large clientage, and at 
the time of his death, at the age of forty-three 
years, was among the leading lawyers of the 
community. He was a Liberal in ])olitics and 
a very prominent member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity. He married Maggie Ferguson, and 
was the father of eight children, six of whom 



survive; namely, Alfred E., Ella, Edith, 
Frank, Maggie, and Bessie. The mother still 
resides in Moncton. 

Alfred E. Holstead completed his early 
education in Mount Allison Academy at Sack- 
ville, and immediately after leaving school 
began his mercantile career as a clerk, being 
thus employed several seasons in Moncton, and 
subsequently for three years in Chatham, N.B. 
In 18S7, desiring to start in business on his 
own account, he returned to Moncton, where 
he has hosts of friends and well-wishers, and 
opened his present drug store, which he has 
conducted with eminent success, his trade 
being e.xtensive and remunerative. 

On November 23, 1894, Mr. Holstead mar- 
ried Miss Grace Thompson, daughter of Charles 
D. Thompson, also of Moncton. Politically, 
Mr. Holstead is an adherent of the Conserva- 
tive party, and fraternally he is a member of 
Prince Albert Lodge, I. O. O. F. , and of 
Moncton Court, I. O. F., both of Moncton. 



§OHN BLACKHALL SMITH, for many 
years proprietor of the Eagle Foundry, 
St. John, was born in Norham, Mount 
Pleasant Parish, county of Durham, England, 
September 27, 1807. He learned the machin- 
ist's trade, and subsequently engaged in busi- 
ness in England as a member of the firm of 
Smith & Smart. Emigrating to Canada in 
1833, he was appointed superintendent of the 
mechanical department of a large brewery and 
distillery in Montreal, and while in that posi- 
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iron planer ever manufactured in Canada. In 
1837 he served as an officer in Colonel Mal- 
son's regiment, which took part in quelling 
what is known as the Papineau Rebellion. 
After the close of the outbreak he came to St. 
John for the purpose of fitting up and running 
for James Whitney the steamboat "Novelty " 
on the river from Indiantown to Woodstock, 
N.B. Later he built the boilers for the 
steamer "North America," first making the 
tools for its construction, which he superin- 
tended; and for some time he acted as chief 
engineer when that boat was running between 
St. John and Boston. In 1841 he left the 
employ of Mr. Whitney for the purpose of 
engaging in business for himself, and estab- 
lished the Eagle Foundry, which he carried on 
successfully for the rest of his active life. 
His was the only iron-working establishment 
here for many years, and he was extensively 
engaged in building engines, boilers, and ma- 
chinery of every description. During a single 
year he furnished the iron work for ninety-one 
ships, besides that of numerous smaller vessels 
and the usual amount of machinery for the 
lumber manufacturers. 

Mr. Smith was married in England in 1830 
to Miss Isabella Douglas, daughter of George 
Douglas, of Tweedmouth, and their wedded 
life extended through a period of sixty-three 
years. He was the father of ten children, 
namely: Elizabeth, who became the wife of 
John P. Bell, of this city; William, who died 
in infancy; Mary Ann, who is the widow of 
David McAndrews; Margaret Douglas, who 
married S. N. Knowles, of St. John; George 



Douglas, whose wife, Annie Osborn, died in 
18S3; Isabella Douglas, who is the widow of 
John Campbell Frances; Jane, wife of James 
Malcolm; Phyllis Beverige, wife of Andrew 
Malcolm ; Eleanor Grace, wife of W. J. Pratt, 
of Albany, N.Y. ; and John A. Y. Of these 
one was born in England, three in Montreal, 
and the others in St. John. John B. Smith 
died April 5, 1895, having survived his wife, 
who died May 24, 1893. He belonged to the 
Masonic fraternity, and was a member of St. 
David's Church. 

The business which he founded is still in a 
prosperous condition, and is conducted under 
the firm name of John Smith's Sons. 



TTXHARLES ABNER MACDONALD, 
I J| barrister, of St. John, is a native of 

^ — ■^ the city, and was born October 20, 
1849, It is parents being Charles C. and Eliza- 
beth (Dyer) Macdonald, both natives of St. 
John. 

Charles C. Macdonald, who was for many 
years engaged in the hardware business on 
King Street, was of Scotch descent. He died 
in 1859; and his wife, Elizabeth, surviving 
him many years, died in 1890. She was a 
daughter of one Jonah Dyer, who came to New 
Brunswick from the United States. Her 
mother, whose maiden name was P^Iizabeth 
Harding, was a daughter of George Harding 



and erand-dauchter of William Hardinj 



The 



latter, who was born in Graveston, England, in 
1745, emigrated to New York, where he mar- 
ried Sarah Gillis, who was born in 1747. He 



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died in 18 18, and she died in 1825. George 
Harding, above named, was born in Newburg, 
N.Y., on June 16, 1779, and came to this 
country in 1783 with his parents. Two of the 
children of Charles C. Macdonald are living, 
namely: Ella Hamlin, who is the wife of 
John M. Kinnear, of Sussex, Kings County, 
N.B. ; and Charles Abner, the special subject 
of this sketch. 

Charles Abner Macdonald was reared in St. 
John, and received his early education in the 
grammar school. He graduated from the Uni- 
versity of New Brunswick in 1868, taking the 
alumni medal for excellence in classics. After 
studying law with the late James Joseph Kaye, 
he was admitted to the bar in 1873, and as a 
barrister has sucessfully followed his profes- 
sion in St. John. In connection with his 
legal work he represents the Equitable Eife 
and London Guarantee and Accident Insurance 
Company. Among insurance men his opinions 
and judgments on insurance matters are highly 
valued. 

Mr. Macdonald was married in 1885 to 
Helen A., daughter of the late K. C. Scovil. 
Three children have been born of this union; 
namely, Guenn Hilda, Gordon Scovil, and 
Stanley Kenneth. 



AMES STEWART NEILL, a promi- 
nent hardware merchant of ?""redericton, 
N. B. , is one of the most energetic, 
capable, and progressive business men of the 
city. A son of the late John Neill, he was 
born in Fredericton, October 14, 1849, and 



has here spent his entire life. His paternal 
grandfather, John Neill, Sr. , was born in 
Scotland; and there he lived and died. He 
married Mary Stewart, whose brother John 
founded the firm of John Stewart & Co., iron- 
mongers, Glasgow, and as an extensive ex- 
porter and importer was known all over the 
world. 

John Neill, Jr., lived in his native place, 
Ayrshire, Scotland, until he was eighteen 
years old. Coming then to Fredericton, he 
was a clerk with his uncle, Thomas Stewart, 
four or more years ; and he afterward taught 
school in the vicinity for a year. He was 
subsequently in partnership with his uncle as 
junior member of the firm of Stewart & Neill 
for five years. In 1848 he opened the store 
now owned by his son James, and was here 
successfully engaged until 1S70, when he re- 
tired to his fine farm in Gibson, where he 
remained until his death, at the age of seventy- 
three years. He was an adherent of the Pres- 
byterian church, of which he was a trustee 
several years. His wife, Jane MacPherson, 
was born at Tay Creek, N. B. , of thrifty 
Scotch ancestors. She survives, an active 
woman of seventy-one years. She bore her 
husband thirteen children, of whom two sons 
and five daughters are still living, and reside 
in P'redericton and vicinity. 

James S. Neill was educated in the P'reder- 
icton Collegiate School, under Drs. Roberts 
and Coster, and at the age of fourteen years 
entered his father's store as a clerk, a position 
which he retained until 1870, when he pur- 
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small, having been but twenty feet by fifty 
feet; but Mr. Neill has added to the improve- 
ments previously made by his late father, and 
it is now one of the most commodious and con- 
venient establishments of the kind in the city. 
The business has steadily increased in volume 
and value, amounting to one hundred thousand 
dollars a year. When the present system of 
water-works was introduced into Fredericton, 
Mr. Neill, although older and more experi- 
enced men were among his numerous competi- 
tors, secured the contract for supplying the 
city with water pipes, over seven hundred tons 
being used. He is a direct importer from 
Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, and 
the United States. He has a large whole- 
sale and retail trade, and sells his goods every- 
where within the borders of the province and 
the borders of Quebec. For three years he 
was a director of the C. E. Railway, and was 
largely instrumental in ha\'ing the road ex- 
tended from here to Chatham, having been 
sent as one of the delegates to Ottawa to place 
the claims for this road before the govern- 
ment. 

Mr. Neill is a Conservative in politics. He 
is interested in local affairs; and he frequently 
takes the stump for his party, but has persist- 
ently refused to be a candidate. Fraternally, 
he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of 
the Odd P'ellows organization, and of Orange 
Lodge. He belongs to the Presbyterian 
church, of which he has been a trustee a num- 
ber of years. He was one of the founders of 
the Board of Trade of Fredericton, and was for 
two years president. He is very proud of his 



native city, and is very energetic in his efforts 
to bring tourists here by placing the superior 
advantages of Fredericton before the American 
public. F"or two years he has served as presi- 
dent of St. Andrew's Society. He is a most 
enthusiastic sportsman, and as a member of the 
Renous and Dungarvon Salmon-fishing Club 
spends two or three weeks annually at salmon 
fishing, at which he is an exjiert, catching 
sometimes as many as twelve in a day. He 
likewise belongs to the Miscou Shooting Club, 
which leases from the government the Isle of 
Miscou, where every fall he spends two weeks 
in goose, duck, and brant shooting. He is 
also president of the Fredericton Curling- 
Club, which was founded by his father, and of 
which he has been a member from boyhood. 

Mr. Neill first married in 1870 Eliza D. 
Barrett, daughter of John Barrett, a contractor, 
of Fredericton. She died in 1877, leaving 
two children, namely: Agnes Stewart, who 
has graduated from the Presbyterian Ladies' 
College at Halifax, N. S. ; and Charles E., 
assistant manager of the \'ancouver Branch of 
the Merchants' Bank of Plalifax. Mr. Neill 
subsequently married Mary Todd Hill, eldest 
daughter of Charles E. Hill, of Nashwaaksis. 
The children born of this union are: Jean; 
Donald Hill; Jack; James Stewart, Jr.; and 
Ralph Douglas. 



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ILLIAM GRAY HARRISON, for 
many years a highly respected citizen 
of St. John, N. B. , was born in St. John in 
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son, of whom mention is made on another page 
of this volume. Mr. Harrison was reared in 
Portland, now St. John, and was educated in 
the private schools. After completing his 
studies he started in the grocery business in 
partnership with a Mr. Craig, and for a num- 
ber of years carried it on in Main Street. 
Later hedisposed of his interest in the con- 
cern to become an auctioneer, but eventually 
went into the grocery business again. 

He was married in 1865 to Miss Agnes Mc- 
Ghee, a native of Sussex and a daughter of 
the Rev. Thomas McGhee, who came to this 
country from England as a missionary of the 
Anglican Church. Of this marriage ten chil- 
dren were born, and four are living at the 
jDresent time; namely, Herbert Gray, Agnes 
Eliza, Leonard Jarvis, and William Stanley. 
The father, William Gray Harrison, was a 
prominent member of St. Luke's Church. His 
death occurred on August 5, 1893. 

Herbert Gray Harrison, the eldest of the 
three sons, was born on November 7, 1868, 
and was educated in the public schools of St. 
John. Upon leaving school he went into the 
London House with Daniel & Boyd, and 
worked there for about si.\ years. Subse- 
quently, in 1890, he started a grocery busi- 
ness, and since that time has most successfully 
managed it. He is a member and vestryman 
of St. Luke's Chinxh. 

Leonard Jarvis Harrison, who was born on 
September 12, 1872, was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of St. John, and subsequently be- 
came clerk for Myles & Young in the hardware 
business. After a time he joined his elder 



brother in the grocery business. William 
Stanley Harrison, who was born on September 
5, 1880, is now in attendance at a business 
college. 




Z. DICKSON, commission mer- 
chant and dealer in provisions, a 
well-known business man of the city 
of St. John, is a native of Rothsay, Kings 
County, N.B. , and was born in 1845. His 
grandfather, Joseph Dickson, came to this 
I^rovince in 1783, with the Loyalists, after 
having served for some time in King George's 
army. His wife, whose maiden name was 
Fairweather, was the mother of thirteen chil- 
dren. Mr. Dickson's parents were James and 
Frances C. (Upham) Dickson. His father 
died in February, 1894, at seventy-four years 
of age, and his mother on November 3, 1898, 
at seventy-five years of age. They were the 
parents of three children — S. Z. , Harriet S., 
and Hedley V., the latter of whom was married 
to Miss Frost, they having seven children. 
James Dickson was a farmer. 

Mr. Dickson was reared as a farmer boy, 
and remained with his parents until he was 
si.xteen years of age. He attended the public 
schools, some of his teachers being William 
Thomason, Thomas Lee, and Kerr Wetmore. 
Upon leaving school he became clerk in the 
London House, which was operated by Messrs. 
Daniel & Boyd, and there continued until the 
death of Governor Boyd in 1893. During that 
period he purchased the old homestead which 
years before had been the home of his uncle, 
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In the spring of 1894 Mr. Dickson bought 
out a business in the City Market, and since 
that time he has given his attention to its 
development. He has been most successful, 
and the business is now running on a substan- 
tial paying basis. 

Mr. Dickson was married in 1870 to Ellinnr 
Tobin, daughter of J. S. Hocksworth, of 
Digby, N. S. ; and she has borne him four chil- 
dren, three of whom are living. Of these 
George Armstrong is in business with his 
father; Alice M. is the wife of Dr. William 
H. Simon, of St. John; and Edgar J. is in the 
employ of A. C. Fairvveather. 



CHIPMAN HARTLEY, senior mem- 
ber of the firm of Hartley & Carvell, 
barristers, at Woodstock, N. B. , is well 
known in legal and business circles. He was 
born in Woodstock, October 27, 1864, son of 
James R. and Lucy G. (Barnaby) Hartley. 
He is of English descent, his grandfather, 
James Hartley, having been born and reared in 
the vicinity of Newcastle, England. 

After reaching man's estate, James Hartley 
came to America, and, purchasing a tract of 
land lying along the St. John River, about 
forty miles above Fredericton, N.B., he there 
engaged in farming until his death. He mar- 
ried Susan Moore, daughter of John Moore, the 
paternal grandfather of Fred Moore, a sketch of 
whose life appears elsewhere in this volume. 
She survived her husband, and died in 1894, at 
the advanced age of ninety-seven years and six 
months. 



James R. Hartley was born in Shogomoc, 
York County, N.B., and there spent his earli- 
est days. At the age of fourteen years he came 
to Woodstock, and, after studying for a while 
went to New England, where he learned sur- 
veying and civil engineering in a scientific 
school. Returning to Woodstock, he estab- 
lished himself as an engineer, and subse- 
quently surveyed nearly all of Caileton and 
Victoria Counties for the purpose of laying 
down government lines. He also engineered 
and brought in the railway line from Rich- 
mond to Woodstock, and afterward surveyed 
the route through the St. John Valley of the 
proposed I. C. R., on the western division of 
which he was working at the time of his death 
in 1868. He was then in the j)rime of a 
vigorous manhood, being but thirty-six years 
old. He was a member of the Provincial Par- 
liament, and had a most promising career before 
him. He was a man of influence in his com- 
munity. He belonged to the F'reeWill Bap- 
tist church, and was a member of Woodstock 
Lodge, ¥. & A. M. He married Lucy G., 
daughter of John Barnaby, of Digby County, 
Nova Scotia, and was the father of two chil- 
dren, of whom J. Chipman is the only one now 
living. John Barnaby died in 1890, at the 
venerable age of ninety years; and his wife, 
whose maiden name was Malvina Chipman, 
died in Woodstock in 1894. 

J. Chipman Hartley attended the common 
and grammar schools of Woodstock in his 
youthful days, and afterward was a pupil at tlie 
Sackville Academy. He subsequently gradu- 
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the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then 
began to read law with L. P. Fisher, of Wood- 
stock, and was admitted as attorney in 1888 
and as barrister in i88g. After practising 
alone two years, Mr. Hartley, in iSgo, formed 
a copartnership with Frank B. Carvell, under 
the present firm name, and has since built up 
and carried on an extensive general law prac- 
tice. He is connected with several local busi- 
ness organizations, being a director of the 
Small & Fisher Company; director, secretary, 
and treasurer of the Maritime Pure Food Com- 
pany ; director and secretary of the Woodstock 
Carriage Company ; secretary of the Baird 
Company, Limited, druggists; and secretary 
and treasurer of the Tobicpie River Log Driv- 
ing Company. A Conservative in politics, he 
takes the stump in every campaign, and does 
most effectual work for his party. F^or the 
past nine or ten years he has served as Town 
Clerk. He is an active member of Ivanhoe 
Lodge, K. of P., of which he is P. C. 

Mr. Hartley married Sarah, daughter of 
John S. I^eighton, of Woodstock, and Ihey 
have one son, R. Perley Hartley. Mrs. Hart- 
ley is a member of the Baptist church. 



^SYAMP^S barber, surveyor and measurer 
of shipping at the port of St. John, was 
born in Old MeUlrum, Aberdeenshire, 
Scotland, May ig, iSig, son of John and 
Christian (Allan) ]5arbcr. Fie was educated 
in Scotland, and at the age of si.xteen he came 
to St. John with his cousin, John Duncan, of 
the ship-building firm of Chvcns & Duncan, for 



whom he worked for the six years following 
his arrival. He next engaged in the lumber 
manufacturing industry, and about the year 
1846 he became associated with Alexander 
Petrie in purchasing and operating saw-mills. 
This firm, which transacted business in St. 
John and Liverpool, being known in the prov- 
ince as James Barber & Co., and in England as 
Alexander Petrie, Laughland & Co., existed 
about two years. After this Mr. Barber served 
four years as secretary of the Albert Mining 
Company and one year as its manager. He 
later became secretary of the Caledonia Oil 
Company, which manufactured coal oil, and was 
forced to suspend operations, partly by the high 
tariff imposed by the United States govern- 
ment during the Civil W^ar and partly by the 
discovery of the oil wells in Pennsylvania. In 
1856 he turned his attention to farming, which 
he followed for twelve years. In 1868 he 
was appointed Chief Clerk in the Registry of 
Shipping, connected with the Department of 
Customs in St. John, N. B. , and Measuring 
Surveyor of Shipping in the Department of 
Marine and Fisheries. He continued in that 
office until i8g5, when he was succeeded by 
his son, but still holds the position of Measur- 
ing Surveyor of Shipping. 

On March 7, 1856, Mr. Barber was united 
in marriage with Janet Brown, a native of 
Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of James and Jane 
(McClymont) Brown. She became the mother 
of four children ; namely, Keith Allan, Jeannie 
McClymont, Kilmeny Christian, and Mary 
Alice. Keith Allan Barber is now Chief 
Clerk in the Registry of Shipping. Jeannie 



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McClymont is the wife of Struan Robertson, of 
the firm of A. Chipman Smith & Co., St. 
John. Mary Alice died at the age of si.x 
years. 

Mr. Barber is an honorary member of St. 
Andrew's Society. For many years he was a 
trustee of St. Stephen's (Presbyterian) Church. 



■OSEPH HENRY SCAMMELL, ship- 
broker and commission merchant, St. 
John, was born in that city, April 10, 
1837, son of Joseph and Fannie Matilda 
(Walker) Scammell. Mis father was born in 
Wylie, England, August 9, 1809, and his 
mother was a native of Nova Scotia. 

Coming to this city when he was a young 
man, Joseph Scammell, in company with his 
brother William, opened the St. John Hotel, 
which stood at the head of King Street; and 
he was later proprietor of the Waveriy House, 
then one of the popular hostelries of the Prov- 
ince. Joseph and William Scammell belonged 
to the Masonic order, and Joseph was a mem- 
ber of Trinity Church. He married on his 
birthday, August 9, 1832, Fannie Matilda 
Walker. They became the parents of nine 
children, namely: John Walter, born Septem- 
ber 28, 1833, who died May 16, 1897; Annie 
Tilton, who was born May 19, 1835, ^nd is 
now the widow of George Byron Gushing, of 
St. John; Joseph Henry, the subject of this 
sketch; Harriett Matilda, born August 10, 
1839, who died May 9, 1847; William Perot, 
born July 27, 1841, who died August 5, 1842; 



P^mma Julia, who was born June 13, 1843, and 
resides in St. John; Charles Edward, born 
March 19, 1845, who also resides in St. John; 
Helen Matilda, born March 25, 1847, now the 
wife of Joseph Allison, of St. John; and Fred- 
erick Ernest, born June 30, 1849, now a resi- 
dent of New York. 

Joseph Plenry Scammell pursued the regular 
course of study at the St. John Grammar 
School, and completed his education in Kings-, 
ton, N. B. PIntering the lumber business as a 
clerk for E. U. Jewett, he remained witii him 
some eight or nine years, at the end of which 
time he engaged in the shipping business, first 
alone and later in company with Sargent S. 
Littlehale, now of Stockton, Gal. After the 
withdrawal of Mr. Littlehale, John Walter 
Scammell was admitted to partnership, and 
still later Frederick E. Scammell entered the 
concern, thus forming the well-known firm of 
Scammell Brothers, who for many years were 
prominent ship-owners, commission merchants, 
and steamship agents, being the local represent- 
atives of the Anchor Line. The present firm 
of J. H. Scammell & Co. succeeded the old 
concern in 1895, and are still transacting a 
general brokerage and commission business. 

Li 1857 Mr. Scammell married Miss Maria 
Louise Stevens, daughter of Sanford Stevens, 
of Pittston, Me. One child born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Scammell died in infancy, and five chil- 
dren are now living, namely: Edward Jewett, 
in Dawson City, N. W.T. ; Frank S., a resi- 
dent of Boston, Mass. ; J. Henry Scammell, 
M.D., of St. John, a graduate of McGill 
College, Montreal; John Kimball, a civil en- 



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gineer of St. John; and Sanford W. Scammell, 
of Boston, Mass. 



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[LLIAM BROUARD MACKEN- 
chief engineer of the Inter- 
colonial Railway, has his headquarters in 
Moncton, N.B., which has been his place of 
residence for many years. Born February i6, 
1848, in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, he is a 
son of the late James Mackenzie and the de- 
scendant of sturdy Scotch ancestors. 

His paternal grandfather, William Macken- 
zie, was born and educated in Scotland, but in 
early manhood emigrated to Nova Scotia. Lo- 
cating in Pictou County, he took up a tract of 
land that was still in its primeval wildness, 
and by dint of persevering toil secured a home- 
stead, on which he was prosperously engaged in 
general farming and lumbering until his de- 
mise, at the age of sixty-five years. Indus- 
trious, honest, and thrifty, he became influential 
in the community, and was numbered among 
its most respected citizens. He married Kate 
Sutherland, and had seven children, of whom 
two, Hugh and Francis, are now living. His 
sons all became land surveyors and road-mak- 
ers, and liad charge of the construction of 
nearly all the highways and bridges in Nova 
Scotia. His widow survived him a number 
of years, passing away at the age of fourscore 
years and ten. 

James Mackenzie, son of William and Kate, 
was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, in 
the settlement now called Kenzieville, where 
he spent a large part of his life, and where he 



died at the comparatively early age of sixty 
years. Learning the profession of a land sur- 
veyor and civil engineer, he followed it for a 
long time, and in connection with bridge and 
railroad building was well known throughout 
the Province. He owned a good farm, and was 
engaged in agricultural pursuits during his 
later days. His widow, whose maiden name 
was Maria Brouard, is still living, and makes 
her home with her children, of whom Will- 
iam B., the subject of this brief biographical 
sketch, is the eldest. The others are Ma- 
tilda, John, Maria, Hugh, and Tina. One 
daughter, Annie, the wife of the Rev. Jeremiah 
Embree, died a few years ago. 

William B. Mackenzie acquired the rudi- 
ments of his education in the district school of 
Kenzieville, N. S., and afterward attended the 
Pictou Academy. In 1872 he became attached 
to the Intercolonial Railway as the chief en- 
gineer's office assistant, a position which he 
filled for eight years. From 1880 to 1897 he 
was assistant engineer. In 1897 he was ap- 
pointed to his present position as chief engi- 
neer of this road, and is now one of its most 
popular and trusted officials. 

Mr. Mackenzie has been twice married, and 
is the father of five children, namely: by his 
first wife, Marion Ladd, of PIngland, who died 
a few years after their marriage, Lhia and 
Lucy; and by his second wife, Lizzie Ilunter, 
of Nova Scotia, three children — Katrina, 
Brouard, and V'ivienne. Mr. Mackenzie is a 
member of the Reformed Church of L'ngland, 
and Mrs. Mackenzie is an attendant of the 
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RANK AMOS GODSOE, D.D.S., a 

native resident of St. John, was born 
on January 15, 1S62, son of William Creigh- 
ton and Mary S. (Babbitt) Godsoe. The 
Godsoe family, which is one of the oldest in 
the city, is descended from William Godsoe, 
who came from New Haven, Conn., in com- 
pany with Messrs. Simonds, White, and 
Hazen, and arrived here on July 1 1-, 1763. 
William Godsoe served as Constable, and was 
Deputy Sheriff about the year 181 2. He died 
at the age of seventy-three years. 

Charles Godsoe, Dr. Godsoe's grandfather, 
was born in St. John in 1804. He followed 
the butcher's trade from his youth upward. 
He died of cholera during an epidemic of that 
disease in 1854. He married Ann Creighton, 
daughter of William Creighton, a blacksmith, 
who came from Maine to Gagetown. The 
maiden name of her mother was Titus. 
Charles Godsoe and his wife had eight chil- 
dren; namely, William C. , Charles, Joseph, 
T. Amos, Phebe Ann, Melissa, Le Baron, and 
Susan. Joseph, Phebe Ann, and Susan are no 
longer living. Melissa is the widow of Mat- 
thew Wilson, Le Baron Godsoe resides in 
Philadelphia, and Charles, Jr., is living in 
St. John. 

William Creighton Godsoe, Dr. Godsoe's 
father, served an apprentice.ship of several 
years at the butcher's trade with Nathan and 
Charles Godsoe, and in 1S47 took charge of 
the business owned by a Mr. Waters, which he 
carried on until his employer's death. In 
1850, with his brother Thomas Amos, he en- 
gaged in business for himself; and in May, 



1899, after more than half a century of dili- 
gent application, he retired. He belongs to 
the Masonic order, the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, the Sons of Temperance, and the 
Orange Society, and has occupied important 
chairs in one or more of these organizations. 
He married in 1S52 Mary S. Babbitt, who died 
on September 25, 1S93. She was a daughter 
of Samuel Babbitt, and a descendant of Loyal- 
ists who came to New Brunswick after the 
close of the American Revolution. Mrs. 
Godsoe became the mother of eight children, 
of whom those living are : Charles Miller, 
D. D. S. ; Frank A., the subject of this sketch; 
Minnie M. ; P'red Coster; and William Creigh- 
ton, Jr. Charles Miller Godsoe is practising 
dentistry on one of the West India Islands. 
Fred C. and William C. , Jr., with the subject 
of this sketch, are proprietors of the American 
Steam Laundry in St. John, the largest and 
most thoroughly equipped laundry in the Mari- 
time Provinces. 

P'rank Amos Godsoe finished his general 
education at the St. John Grammar School 
under Dr. H. S. Bridges in 1879, when he 
entered the employ of the St. John Globe. 
After two years' service with the Globe he 
took up the study of dentistry, under the pre- 
ceptorship of Dr. J. F. Griffith, of St. John, 
and in 1881 entered the Boston Dental College, 
from which he graduated in 1883. After re- 
maining in Boston for another year, during 
which he was engaged in professional work, he 
returned to St. John, where he has built up an 
extensive practice. He spares no exertion in 
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to his profession, and availing himself of new 
methods and improved appliances. He is at 
the present time serving as Registrar of the 
Council of the New Brunswick Dental Society, 
and secretary and treasurer of the New Bruns- 
wick Dental Society. 

On April 15, 1890, Dr. Godsoe was united 
in marriage with Carrie M. Ellis, a native of 
New York and a daughter of Thomas Ellis. 

The Doctor is a Past Master of Albion 
Lodge, No. I, F. & A. M. ; Past High Priest 
of New Brunswick Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons ; and Past Preceptor of De Molay 
Preceptory, Knights Templar. He is a mem- 
ber of Union Lodge, No. 2, Knights of Pyth- 
ias, and is prominently identified with this 
order, being a Past Grand Chancellor of the 
Grand Domain of the Maritime Provinces, and 
having held the principal offices in the Uniform 
Rank of this order, being at present on the staff 
of the Colonel. 



OHN BAKER FORSTER, a well- 
known and highly esteemed citizen of 
Dorchester, N. B. , was born April 5, 
1842, in Richibucto, Kent County, N.B. , a 
son of James and Isabella (Baker) Forster. 
His paternal grandfather, Wilfred Forster, a 
pioneer settler of Richibucto, was the son of 
Thomas Forster, a lifelong resident of Eng- 
land, who married a Miss Stuart, said to have 
been a descendant of the royal family of 
Stuart. 

Wilfred Forster was born, rearetl, and edu- 
cated in Cumberland County, England, and 



lived there until 1826, when he followed the 
tide of emigration westward. Coming to New 
Brunswick, he located in Richibucto, the town 
at that time containing but five dwelling- 
houses. He bought land, and, being already 
possessed of considerable wealth, was consid- 
ered a gentleman farmer. He attained the age 
of threescore years and ten. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth Graham, was born 
in Cumberland County, England, and died at 
the age of eighty-nine years in Richibucto. 
Both were members of the Church of England. 
They had seven children, of whom but one is 
living — Ann, widow of the late Edmund 
Powell, who was a son of Absalom Powell. 
Mrs. Powell has si.x children; namely, Eliza- 
beth, William, Charles, Alfred, Henry A., 
and Clifford. Elizabeth is the wife of Dr. 
David Allison, of Sackville, N. B., and has 
three children — Edmund P., David, and 
Harry. William married Annie Barnes, of 
Richibucto, and has four children — Mary E., 
William Eldmund, Elizabeth, and Sarah. 
Charles married IiJiza Wallace, and has one 
child, Allison. Alfred married Agnes Mi- 
shaud, and has four children — Margaret, 
Henry, Herbert, and Lloyd Carl. Henry A., 
of whom a sketch may be found on another 
page of this volume, mai'ried Alice Payson, 
and has two children — Lena and Ralph. 

James Forster, son of Wilfred, was born in 
Scotland in the early part of the present cen- 
tury, and was a lad of fifteen years when he 
came with his parents to this country and set- 
tled in Richibucto. There he subsequently 
completed his education, having as teacher the 




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present Senator, David Wark, now of Frederic- 
ton, N. B. After leaving school he went to 
sea a number of years, and then embarked in 
the coasting trade as master of his own vessels, 
making trips along the shores of Maine, New 
Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. He was a Con- 
servative in jjolitics and a member of the 
Church of England. He died at the age of 
seventy-six years, having lived a long and use- 
ful life. His first wife was Isabella Baker, 
daughter of John Baker, of Prince Edward 
Island. She bore him seven children, of whom 
John B. , the subject of this sketch, is the only 
survivor. Another son, William Forster, 
was a telegraph operator in New York City at 
the breaking out of the Civil War in the 
United States. Being sent, with others, on 
an expedition to tap the rebel wires between 
Charleston and Savannah, he was in communi- 
cation with the Southern main army for five 
hours, taking quite a number of very important 
messages to the commanding general of the 
Northern army. He was then captured by the 
rebels, and sent to Columbia, S. C, and from 
there to the prison at Andersonville, Ga., 
where, after ten months' confinement, he died 
of starvation, a young man and unmarried. 
After the death of his first wife when she was 
but twenty-eight years old, Mr. James Forster 
married Mrs. Jane Robotham, who died in 
1856. Two children were born of that union, 
but neither is now living. 

John Baker Forster obtained his early edu- 
cation in Richibucto, where he afterward 
learned telegraphy, and was for some time an 
operator in the telegraph office. A young man 



of unusual business qualifications, very skilful 
in his line of work, he was made in 1859 
superintendent of the telegraph line between 
Richibucto and Moncton, a position which he 
held until 1867, having his headquarters in the 
former place. From 1857 until 1868 he was 
also interested in the shipping business, and 
ran a packet between Shediac and Richibucto. 
In 1868, at the opening of the Eastern Exten- 
sion Railway, now part of the Intercolonial, 
he was appointed station agent at Painsac 
Junction, where he remained until 1869, when 
he went to Nova Scotia to put the railway ex- 
tending from Pictou to Halifax on the same 
working system as that in use on the Inter- 
colonial Railway. Mr. Forster went to Point 
du Chien in 1870 as station agent on the 
Intercolonial Railway, and continued in that 
capacity four years. In 1870 he became agent 
for several lines of steamers running from 
Montreal and Quebec to Pictou, N. S. , callinoat 
Shediac, an office which he resigned in 1879 to 
accept that of Deputy Warden at the Dominion 
Penitentiary, Dorchester, N. B. , an institution 
with which he has since been connected, hav- 
ing been appointed by the Dominion govern- 
ment in 1887 to his present position as 
Warden. Fraternally, he is a Mason, being 
a member of Richibucto Lodge, F. & A. M. 

Mr. Forster married on March 16, 1870, 
Euphemia, daughter of William Cooke, M.D., 
of Pictou, N. S. Six children have been born 
of this union, and three are now living; 
namely, Sarah McD., John F. C, and Will- 
iam C. Mr. Forster and his family are mem- 
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New Brunswick Synod's trustee for the 
"Church School for Girls," Windsor, N. S. , 
and a Governor of King's College, Windsor, 

N.S. 



^OHN LE LACHEUR, of the firm of 
Bowman & Le Lacheur, contractors and 
builders, St. John, was born at Gurnsey 
Cove, south side of Murray Harbor, Prince 
Edward Island, November 22, 1829, a son of 
Bartholomew and Margaret (Hawkins) Le 
Lacheur. He was four years of age when his 
paternal grandfather, John Le Lacheur, first, 
who was a native of the island of Guernsey, 
settled in Prince Edward Island and engaged 
there in agriculture. Bartholomew Le 
Lacheur and his wife were farming people. 
They were the parents of five sons and four 
daughters, all of whom are now living. One, 
David VV. , has been for many years a mission- 
ary in China. The rest of the family, with 
the exception of Giles and John, the subject 
of this sketch, are now residents of Prince 
Edward Island. 

John Le Lacheur served an apprenticeship 
of seven years to the carpenter's trade in 
Charlottctown, P. ILL In 1853 he came to 
St. John, where he followed his trade as a 
journeyman until 1858. In the year last 
named he formed his present partnership with 
Mr. W. H. Bowman, and they have since 
done an extensive and lucrative business. 
They arc now the oldest firm of contractors in 
St. John, and none have a better record for 
thorough work, punctuality, and honest busi- 
ness methods. 



While a resident of Charlottctown Mr. Le 
Lacheur became a member of the fire depart- 
ment of that place, and also of the Sons of 
Temperance. On coming to St. John he 
joined the fire department in that city, and 
continued his membership in the Sons of 
Temperance by joining the local branch of 
that organization. He is now treasurer of 
the Firemen's Relief Association. He is 
also a member of New Brunswick Lodge, 
K. of P. 

He was married in i860 to Miss Margaret 
Spear, daughter of John Spear, a prominent 
pilot on the Bay of Fundy, residing at St. 
John. Mrs. Le Lacheur's mother was before 
marriage Miss Mary Hudson of St. John, 
daughter of Captain Hudson. 

Mr. and Mrs. Le Lacheur are the parents of 
four children — Alice, Marion, Margaret, and 
John. Alice is the wife of Erastus Jones, of 
St. John. John married Anna Mouatt, of 
St. John, of which city he is a resident. All 
the members of Mr. Le Lacheur's family at- 
tend the Methodist church. 




ILl.IAM FREDERICK MYERS, 
manufacturer of machinery, St. 
John, X.B. , was born in this cit}' in 1853, 
being the son of Samuel and Louisa (Briggs) 
Myers, both of Queens County. 

His grandfather, Jacob Myers, who was a 
native of New Brunswick, removed to New 
Jersey, but returned in 1783 to St. John, where 
he carried on a carpenter business until 1S43. 
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he entered into partnership with J. E. Masters, 
and carried on a general carriage business. In 
1S54, in connection with his son, Samuel 
Myers, he built the shop on Waterloo Street, 
and there engaged in manufacturing carriages 
and machinery for mills and manufacturing 
purposes. Soon after they introduced the 
necessary machinery for a machine shop, which 
branch was conducted by Samuel Myers. 
Jacob Myers died at the age of seventy-three 
years. His wife was Sarah Bunnell. They 
had a family of three children — Samuel, 
Sarah, and Elizabeth. Sarah became the wife 
of W. H. White, and Elizabeth married Cap- 
tain Potts. 

Samuel Myers, father of William Frederick, 
learned the trade of a millwright, wliich he 
followed some years ; and later he formed a 
partnership with his father. After his father's 
death he succeeded to the business, to which 
he added the manufacturing of general ma- 
chinery, and carried on an extensive enterprise 
until 1879, when he retired. Mr. Samuel 
Myers is a member of the Methodist church, 
and was secretary of a Sunday-school. Since 
his retirement he has resided in Rothesay. 
He married first Louisa Briggs, daughter of 
Ebenezer Briggs, of Queens County. She 
died in 1863, and he subsequently married Mrs. 
Elizabeth Holder. Five children were born of 
his first union, and four of them are living; 
namely, Sarah, Grace, William Frederick, and 
Jacob Willit Myers. Sarah is the wife of 
Charles Xevins, of New York. Grace mar- 
ried John Sime, of St. John. Jacob Willit 
Myers, who was born in St. John in 1858, is 



associated with his brother, William Freder- 
ick, in business. He married Edith Green. 

William Frederick Myers was educated in 
the schools of St. John. After completing his 
studies he entered his father's shop, and later 
was admitted to partnership. Upon his father's 
retirement, in 1879, he succeeded to the busi- 
ness, and in 1883 his brother, Jacob W. Myers, 
became associated with him under the firm 
name of W. F. & J. W. Myers. In 1895 they 
began to make a specialty of manufacturing 
electric appliances, and they are now carrying 
on an extensive business. Their building- 
covers a space of ninety-seven by one hundred 
feet, and their products are used throughout 
the Maritime Provinces. 




lOBERT A. MURDOCH, a well- 
known merchant of Chatham, N. B. , 
was born at Murdoch's Point on 
June 12, 1S57. He is a son of the late Alex- 
ander Murdoch, of whom mention is made in 
another sketch in this work. Attending suc- 
cessively the public schools and St. Michael's 
Academy, he received a practical education, 
which has been invaluable to him in later 
years. On leaving school he went into a dry- 
goods store at Moncton as clerk, but subse- 
quently came to Chathain, where for three 
years he was in the employ of William Murry. 
In 1880 he was appointed travelling salesman 
for the district east of Montreal and through 
the Maritime Provinces. Until 1893 he con- 
tinued in this position, becoming thoroughly 
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dry-goods trade, and gaining an extensive 
knowledge of human nature. Thus equipped, 
he started business for himself in Chatham, 
and in a short time became one of the leading 
merchants of the city. He was the first in 
New Brunswick to establish a business on a 
strictly cash basis. He now carries a stock of 
goods worth from twelve to fourteen thousand 
dollars, and keeps five clerks employed. 

Mr. Murdoch was married in 1883 to Miss 
Mary Allen, a daughter of Captain James 
Allen, of this place. She has been the 
mother of five children, by name: Lilian, 
Benedict, Robert, Mary, and Frances. Mr. 
Murdoch was one of the first Aldermen of 
Chatham. He is a member of the Roman 
Catholic church, and of the C. M. B. A. 
Politically, he is a Conservative of the type 
of the late Sir John McDonald. 




ILLIAM A. OUINTON, Fairville, 
N. B., farmer and lumber dealer, 
was born April 4, 1847, in the parish of Lan- 
caster, county of St. John. He is the de- 
scendant of an old and highly reputable Eng- 
lish family that was first represented in New 
Brunswick by Hugln Ouinton and his wife, 
who, willi a party of settlers, arrived at the 
mouth of the St. John River August 28, 1762. 
James Ouinton, son of Hugh, was noted in 
after life as the first child of the new settlers 
born there, he having first seen the light in 
Fort Frederick the evening of their arrival. 
Hugh Ouinton was born in New Ham)ishire. 



He is thought to have been the son of James 
Ouinton, of Cheshire, or Chester. 

In the New Hampshire records the name of 
the family is given by town and parish clerks 
as Quinton, Ouenton, Ouanton, and Quentin. 
The latter was probably the spelling of the 
name when it was first introduced into Eng- 
land as a surname, and it eventually became 
anglicized to Ouinton. It appears to belong 
to that class of surnames brought into England 
about the time of William I., derived from 
French towns or places. The town of St. 
Quentin in Picardy was so called in honor 
of Quentin, an early Christian martyr. Sir 
Walter Scott names the leading character of 
his novel of Quentin Durward for the saint. 
The first or founder of this family in England 
was Sir Herbert St. Quentin, a companion in 
arms of William the Conqueror, who granted 
him the manor of Skipsay and other lands in 
County Notts. Sir Herbert St. Quentin, a 
grandson, who was summoned to Parliament 
in 1294, had two daughters — Elizabeth and 
Lora; and the latter, who became sole heir, 
married Robert de Grey, of Rothersfield. 
The barony of St. Quentin passed through 
Grey, Fitzhugh, and Parr to the P2arl of Pem- 
broke, descending from William St. Quentin, 
eldest surviving son of Edward II. and fourth 
in descent from the founder of the county. 
The last baron was Sir William St. Quentin, 
who died in 1795, when the barony became 
extinct. His nephew, William Thomas 
Danby, of Sunberry, Middlesex, was his heir, 
and upon succeeding to the estate assumed the 
surname and arms. He was succeeded by his 




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son, Matthew Chitty Downes St. Ouentin. 
There seem to be several branches of this fam- 
ily besides the above direct line, which shows 
the gradual changing of the name from St. 
Ouentin to Ouenton and Ouinton. The arms 
and crest of the different branches are given 
in both Burke's and Fairbank's Armory of 
Families of Great Britain and Ireland. 

In Hatton's list of emigrants it is stated 
that a Henry Ouinton, aged twenty, left Lon- 
don, June 2, 1634, for Virginia, and Roger 
Ouinton left London, July 24, 1635, for the 
same place. This was about a century before 
the name of James Ouinton appears in New 
Hampshire. In the same work is named 
Henry Ouintyne, of Barbadoes, as a person to 
whom were consigned convicted rebels from 
Bristol, England, in 1679 '^''"^^ '645. This 
may be the same Henry Ouinton, of Barba- 
does, named in the will of Samuel Spicer, of 
Boston, December 24, 1664, who speaks of 
him as my "loving father-in-law, Henry 
Ouinton." This will is quoted in the New 
England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
vol. xvi. p. 330. 

Before his removal to New Brunswick, and 
when but a youth, LIugh Ouinton served in 
the old French War. He first enlisted at 
Windham, formerly part of Londonderry, 
N. H., in 1757, in a company of which Her- 
cules Mooney was Captain and Alexander 
Todd Lieutenant, and was discharged March 
5 of the same year. The following year he 
again enlisted, April 12, in a company of 
which Alexander Todd was Captain, and he 
was discharged October 30. He enlisted for 



the third time on March 11, 1760, and on the 
24th of October was discharged sick, and, it is 
said, went to Albany, N. Y. The expeditions 
in which he served were engaged in operations 
at Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and at 
Fort William Henry, on the north shore of 
Lake George. Fort William Henry was capt- 
ured by the French and Indians in August, 
1757, and out of the two hundred New Hamp- 
shire soldiers eighty were mercilessly slaugh- 
tered by the Indians after they surrendered. 

Some of Hugh Ouinton's relatives early 
settled not far from Albany, in that part of 
old Whitehall township known as Hampton. 
Among them were Josiah and John Ouinton 
and their sister Ann, who married a McFar- 
land. In 1806 Josiah moved across the State 
line to Fair Haven, Vt., a short distance from 
Hampton. Fairbank's History of Fairhaven 
names a number of descendants. 

In an old Ouinton family Bible it is stated 
that Hugh Ouinton was born at Cheshire, 
N.H., in 1741, and that Elizabeth Christy, 
whom he married in 1761, was born at Lon- 
donderry, N. H., also in 1741. In the town 
now called Chester, which was originally 
called Cheshire, in Rockingham County, was 
a prominent early settler named James Ouen- 
ton. The first settlers of Cheshire (or Ches- 
ter), Londonderry, Windham, and the vicinity 
were mainly Scotch Presbyterians from the 
north of Ireland. In the New Hampshire 
Provincial Papers, vol. iv. , is a copied peti- 
tion to the governor from sundry inhabi- 
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formerly belonged (most of them) to the king- 
dom of Scotland and Ireland, where they were 
educated in the principles of the Kirk of Scot- 
land, for which they have great veneration," 
and the petition proceeds to refer to some 
differences about calling a minister. Among 
the signers is the name James Ouenton. He 
is named again in the list of tax-payers, 1741, 
and again in the minutes of the Presbyterian 
church, September 14, 1753, as Parish Clerk. 
As he is the only Ouenton or Ouinton named 
in the full list of tax-payers at that place, it 
is reasonable to presume that he was the father 
of Hugh Ouinton. The latter had two half- 
brothers named Jonathan and Joshua. In 1772 
a John Ouinton is named in Dorchester, N. H. 
In the Revolution David Ouinton enlisted Oc- 
tober I, 1777, at Windham, and he is again 
named in the New Hampshire Provincial 
Papers, vol. ii., in an order for pay of a 
soldier's dues, 1790. After this the writer 
has found no mention of the name of Ouinton 
in copies of New Hampshire records. 

In the early days of the settlement of the 
city of St. John, when fears were entertained 
of the Indians, Hugh Ouinton, it is said, was 
appointed Captain of a militia company or- 
ganized for the defence of the settlers. He 
had four sons — John, James, William, and 
Jesse. 

James Ouinton, the second son and father of 
the subject of this sketch, was a farmer and 
building contractor of St. John. He served 
two terms in the New Brunswick Legislature, 
and was one of the first Confederation members. 
He married Elizabeth Tilley, a daughter of 



William Tilley, of Gagetown, and first cousin 
of Sir Leonard Tilley, of St. John, N. B. 

William A. Ouinton acquired his education 
in the city of St. John. At the age of twenty 
he enlisted in the militia, and attained the rank 
of Major. For six years he was a member of 
the City Council and for five years of the 
Municipal Council. In 1882 he was returned 
as member of the Provincial Legislature for St. 
John County, and served seven years. 

On December 6, 1877, Mr. Ouinton married 
Kate Allen, daughter of R. R. Allen, of 
Carleton, St. John. His residence is the old 
family homestead. 

Mr. Ouinton is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity and the Order of Orangemen. He 
belongs to the Church of England. Politi- 
cally, he is a Liberal. 

In 1 891 he was appointed manager and stew- 
ard of Provincial Insane Asylum, which is lo- 
cated in the parish of Lancaster, N.B. He is 
also interested in the lumber business and lum- 
ber lands, also carries on general farming. 




mt ENRY USHER MILLER, late a 
well-known business man and promi- 
nent citizen of St. John, was born 
in Hollis, York County, Me., April 19, 1827, 
son of Nathaniel and Mary (Woodman) 
Miller. When quite young he began to assist 
his father in lumbering, and upon reaching 
his majority went to Ellsworth, Me., where 
he was associated for some years in the lum- 
ber business with his brother, Nathaniel Jones 
Miller. From Ellsworth he went to Cham- 



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cook, near St. Andrews, N. B. , and entered 
into partnership with George Gray, with whom 
he carried on lumbering operations on the 
Magaguadavic River for a time. In 1866 he 
removed from Chamcook to St. John, and en- 
gaged in the manufacture of lumber there with 
C. F. Woodman. The firm conducted an ex- 
tensive business, giving employment to a 
large number of men, and was favorably known 
throughout the Province as a prosperous and 
enterprising concern. 

In 1848 Mr. Miller married Sarah Eliza- 
beth Berry, a daughter of Colonel Josiah 
Berry, of Buxton, Me. Of this union there 
are three sons — ^ James, Charles, and Harry. 
Henry Usher Miller died May 15, 1S97. 

James Miller, eldest son of Henry Usher 
Miller, was born in Hollis, Me., Aug. 30, 
1855. His education was acquired in the 
public schools of St. John, in Sheffield, 
N. B. , and at the Sackville Academy. Turn- 
ing his attention to the lumber business 
when a young man, he went in 1881 to Nova 
Scotia, where he conducted an extensive and 
successful enterprise of that kind for six- 
teen years, at the expiration of which time 
he returned to St. John, where he died No- 
vember 4, 1898. A few months before his 
death he acquired extensive timber limits in 
the Province of Quebec, embracing upward of 
six hundred square miles, and had commenced 
the erection of large lumber-mills at Notre 
Dame du Lac, Temiscouata County, in that 
Province. 

He was married in 1880 to Alice P. Moore, 
daughter of Tliomas B. Moore, of Albert 



County, New Brunswick. Mrs. Miller and 
their two children — Sarah P^lizabeth and 
James Bernard — ^ survive him. 




ENRY WYSE, a well-known citizen 
of Newcastle, N. B., who for more 
than twenty years has been engaged 
in the grocery business here, was born in 
Chatham, N.B., in 1841. He is a son of the 
late Henry Wyse, of whom mention is made 
elsewhere in this volume. The father was a 
prominent baker, establishing one of the first 
bakeries in New Brunswick; and the son 
learned the business in boyhood, giving it his 
careful attention and obtaining a thorough 
knowledge of all its details. His house has 
always sustained a high reputation for the excel- 
lent quality of its products and for promptness 
in filling all orders. Mr. Wyse remained with 
his father until about fifteen years before his 
father's death. At the present time he has 
a connection with the business formerly con- 
ducted by his father. 

In 1865 Mr. Wyse went abroad, and trav- 
elled for two years in India and in various 
European countries. In 1874 he started his 
present business at Newcastle, and since then 
has met with success, which he has fully 
merited. He is popular both with his cus- 
tomers and his employees. 

Mr. Wyse was married in 1866 to Marianne 
Nicholson, eldest daughter of the late Robert 
Nicholson. She bore him three children, two 
of whom are living — Henry and Robert N. 
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mining business, and resides in Aspen, Col. 
Robert is a dry-goods merchant of Newcastle. 
Mrs. Marianne Wyse died in 1895; and two 
years later Mr. Wyse married Emily, daughter 
of the late William McMasters. Her father 
was born in Bay du Vin, N.B., and was a son 
of William McMasters, Sr. , who came from 
the north of Ireland about the year 1S35. 

In 1879 Mr. Wyse was appointed Magistrate. 
For a quarter of a century he has been a mem- 
ber of the Order of Orangemen, and for the 
last thirteen years he has been connected with 
the Salvation Army. He believes thoroughly 
in the great work being done by that zealous 
body of Christian workers, and has been influ- 
ential in helping it forward in this section of 
the Province. 



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AVID H. NASE, a well-known mer- 
chant of Indiantown, St. John, his 
native place, was born February 3, 
1848, son of Philip and Elizabeth Mary 
(Hamm) Nase. He is a descendant on the 
paternal side of Henry Nasc, a German, who 
settled in Dutchess County, New York, in 
1728; and his great-grandfather was Colonel 
Henry Nase, a Loyalist, who came to New 
Brunswick immediately after the American 
Revolution. His maternal grandfatlier was 
David Hamm, of Westfield, N.B., where the 
homestead of the paternal ancestors is located. 
A more extended account of the family will be 
found in a sketch of Philip Nase, which ap- 
pears elsewhere in the Ricview. 

David H. Nase completed his education in 



the St. John Grammar School. His business 
training was begun at the age of sixteen, when 
he entered a grocery store; and he was later in 
business with his father. For five years he 
conducted a line of horse-cars, which he leased 
from the People's Street Railroad Company; 
but he abandoned that enterprise prior to his 
father's death, in order to become a member of 
the firm of P. Nase & Son, and was associated 
with his brother, Leonard T. , for several years. 
Withdrawing from that firm in 1895, he estab- 
lished himself in general mercantile business 
on Main Street, a short distance from the old 
stand, and has built up a profitable trade. He 
was a member of the Common Council for three 
years, during which time the cities of Portland 
and St. John were united; and, having been 
appointed to the School Board while a Council- 
man, he is still serving in that body. Politi- 
cally he is a Liberal. 

On December 2, 186S, Mr. Nase was united 
in marriage with Henrietta A. Barnhill, daugh- 
ter of Alexander Barnhill, of Pleasant Point, 
Lancaster, N.B. , and formerly of Nova Scotia. 
Of this union there are two children living: 
Henry Brunswick, born October 9, 1S69, who 
married Minnie Hooper Beverl}', daughter of 
Fulton Beverly; and Winnie Gibson, born 
October 13, 1876, who is now the wife of 
M. H. J. F'leming, of the Phoenix Foundry. 
Henry Brunswick Nase is a successful dentist 
of St. John. 

Mr. Nase is a member of the Church of 
England and jirominently identified with St. 
Luke's Church, of which, as his father was, he 
is a vestryman. 




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fERY REV. MONSIGNOR THOMAS 
CONNOLLY, Vicar-general of the 
Diocese of St. John, whose ecclesiastical career 
has covered a period of more than fifty years, 
was born in St. John, March 4, 1823. His 
parents came from the north of Ireland in 
181S, and first settled in St. John. His 
father, James Connolly, who was a mason and 
contractor, speedily took a prominent position 
in the Catholic congregation of the city. He 
was elected church warden, or, as it was then 
termed, committeeman, and contributed mate- 
rially, both by advice and money, to the erec- 
tion of St. Malachi's Church. In 1826 the 
family moved to Fredericton ; and there young 
Thomas Connolly received his primary educa- 
tion at the Fredericton Grammar School, and 
was classmate with youths who, like himself, 
but in other callings, helped in after years to 
make history in New Brunswick. Graduating 
from that school at the age of seventeen, he 
was sent to the only Catholic educational es- 
tablishment in the Maritime Provinces, St. 
Andrew's College, in the vicinity of Charlotte- 
town, P.E.I. Having completed his classical 
course at St. Andrew's, he was next sent in 
1844 to Quebec, to begin his training for the 
priesthood. There, too, as elsewhere, he had 
for college mates and teachers men whose 
names now illustrate the civil and ecclesiasti- 
cal history of Canada. 

Upon the completion of the clerical studies 
he was ordained priest in St. Michael's Church, 
Chatham, in July, 1848, by the Right Rev. 
William Bollard, first Bishop of New Bruns- 
wick, assisted by the Rev. Joseph Pacquet, the 



Rev. Michael Egan, and the Rev. John 
Sweeney (afterward Vicar-general and still 
later Bishop of St. John). The ceremony was 
the first solemn function to take place in St. 
Michael's; and it may be truthfully said that, 
of all who were subsequently raised to the holy 
priesthood within its walls, none did greater 
honor or rendered more signal service to the 
sanctuary than he who was thus first or- 
dained. 

After a month's stay in Chatham, where he 
replaced Father Sweeney during the latter' s 
absence, Feather Connolly went to St. Louis, 
Kent County, as assistant to the Rev. Joseph 
Pacquet, this being his first official assignment. 
Here, under the watchful care of one of the 
most capable priests the province has known, 
he became acquainted with the system of 
church administration whicJi obtains in French 
parishes. In the fall of 1848 he was trans- 
ferred by the bishop to the Fredericton mis- 
sion, becoming assistant to the Rev. Walter 
Aylward. Here, in the wide scojdc of country 
then administered to by the priests of Frederic- 
ton, he became acquainted with the conditions 
of the Catholic people, as they existed under 
the crude and discouraging conditions of pio- 
neer life. These inconveniences, however, 
had their formative and educational value to 
the young priest, and enabled his quick, admin- 
istrative mind to grasp the possibility of im- 
proved organization to meet pressing spiritual 
needs. It also demonstrated to him that a 
generation stalwart in the faith could prosper 
even amid circumstances that were outwardly 
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In September, 1849, Father Connolly was 
named pastor of Woodstock, with a district em- 
bracing from beyond Grand Falls to a point 
thirty-five miles below Woodstock — a distance 
of one hundred and ten miles along the river, 
with an average width of twenty miles, and 
containing unlimited possibilities of hard 
work. In the entire district outside of the 
towns there were only seven frame houses 
owned by Catholics, all the other habitations 
of his people being log huts, often of the most 
primitive description. The stint of work that 
lay before the youthful parish priest was such 
as to call forth for its successful accomplish- 
ment not only all his energy, but discretion 
and tact of the highest kind. The people were 
poor and scattered, and laboring under the dis- 
couraging blight of the religious dissensions 
which had culminated in the riot of 1847. 
Many of those who had taken part in that de- 
plorable event had disappeared, but the mem- 
ory of it still rankled. The young priest's 
task was to conciliate and win back men's 
minds to one another, and to restore, if possi- 
ble, the golden days of tolerance and neigh- 
borly good will that had existed in the county 
of Carleton in the early years of its history. 
Happily, no better choice could have been 
made for this delicate duty than Father Con- 
nolly. Born in the province, he had no per- 
sonal memories of trans- Atlantic feuds to cloud 
his mind or mislead his judgment. Up to the 
time of his going to Prince Edward Island he 
had attended a school where all religious de- 
nominations met on equal terms. There he 
had formed friendships with boys who now, as 



men, were influential in the affairs of Wood- 
stock. They knew him, and had no distrust 
of his attitude toward themselves. "There's 
a new priest come to town, and he can't talk 
Irish," reported a Wakefield farmer, on his re- 
turn from Woodstock to that intensely Protes- 
tant section now known as Victoria Corner. 
His neighbors would not credit his story. 
Such a marvel as a priest who could not ad- 
dress his people in Irish when he did not want 
outsiders to understand him was too strange to 
be credible. A delegation was at once ap- 
pointed to attend mass in Woodstock the fol- 
lowing Sunday, and report to the local Orange 
Lodge. They attended, but were greatly taken 
aback to hear a good setmon in English on 
"The Duties and Responsibilities of Citizen- 
ship." Father Connolly pleaded the cause of 
peace and Christian concord even more effec- 
tively in the public lecture which he delivered 
about this time from the platform of the Me- 
chanics' Institute, Woodstock. Invited later 
by Colonel William Baird, chairman of the 
lyceum, Woodstock, to deliver a lecture as 
part of their winter course, the choice of sub- 
ject being left to himself, he addressetl his 
audience on "P"raternal Love." The subject 
was unusual for a lecture platform, but its 
timeliness could not be denied. Henceforth, 
during his stay in Woodstock, Father Connolly 
could, without let or hindrance, devote himself 
to the interests under his charge. Time and 
the annealing power of good neighborship were 
working for the return of peace and kindly 
feeling in the community. 

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stock was the completion of a new church, 
begun by Father Vereker, his predecessor. 
This necessitated in October, 1850, a trip to 
Boston to collect funds, as he found that his 
people, unaided, could not meet the necessary 
expense. After a month's stay he returned 
with a sum sufficient to meet the most pressing 
need. 

The demise of Bishop Dollard and the in- 
stallation of a new bishop in the person of the 
Right Rev. Thomas L. Connolly resulted in 
a general shaking-up and the transference of 
Father Connolly to Barachois, a French 
parish, which then included also the out- 
lying districts of Cape Bald, Cape Tourmen- 
tine, and Aboushagan. In both Cape Bald 
and Cape Tourmentine churches were build- 
ing, and the jDCople were very poor. In this 
extensive field Father Connolly labored for one 
year. He had scarcely begun to get well ac- 
quainted with his people, French and Irish, 
when the bishop, in order to meet the exigen- 
cies of religion on the south-western side of 
the province, invited him to take the pastor- 
ship of Milltown and St. Stephen, in Charlotte 
County. Thus ended for a time his ministry 
among the French. 

After a year's sojourn at Milltown, where 
he built a school-house, he was transferred for 
the second time to Woodstock. The priest 
who did not talk Irish was again needed in that 
storm centre. During the two years of his 
absence dissensions had arisen among the 
Catholics themselves, aggravated by the omi- 
nous attitude of outside bodies. The condition 
of affairs was critical when he took charge. 



He found himself, with Father Barron ^ — the 
previous incumbent, who had not yet left • — 
and the congregation, shut out of church on 
Sunday, the keys being held by a man who 
had an account against the building. Acting 
on legal advice, he forced an entrance into the 
building during the week, and was in his 
place in the sanctuary on the next Sunday. 
The outlook did not dismay him. It was ex- 
perience not of the pleasantest kind, but none 
the less valuable. Patiently and tactfully he 
took up his work, as best he could, where he 
had laid it down two years before. The labors 
of the next twelve years were of an arduous and 
exacting nature. During this period the 
boundaries of his jurisdiction were enlarged to 
take in Aroostook County, Maine. At five 
points only in this wide area of country were 
there Catholic churches — at Woodstock, at 
Grand Falls, at the mouth of the Tobique, at 
River de Chute, and at Houlton. Catholics 
there were everywhere, scattered and isolated ; 
and they all had to be provided for spiritually. 
What journeys, then, what exposure, what in- 
cidents of fatigue and discomfort, must not the 
accumulated experience of these years have 
brought to Father Connolly in that vast mis- 
sion ! These duties, however, brought with 
them an unequalled influence with the people 
for whom he spent himself. His willingness 
to rough it and to make the best of accommo- 
dations as he found them won their admiration. 
Whether poor and struggling with adverse con- 
ditions or prosperous, as in their latter years, 
he ever proved himself their father, counsellor, 
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their minds and hearts increased until they 
leaned wholly upon his leadership. Seven 
priests do duty to-day in the district to which 
he in those days ministered alone; but no one 
of them, however devoted and self-sacrificing, 
can ever hope to wield more than a fraction of 
his influence. 

In such a broad field of labor there was need 
of effective methods in order to secure cohe- 
rence and permanence of results. Father Con- 
nolly was an organizer. Slowly and carefully 
he laid the foundations of a system the ramifi- 
cations of which touched every detail of church 
progress. In Woodstock his work focussed on 
the completion of the new church, which he 
called St. Gertrude's, and on the establishment 
of a parochial school. Every penny of his in- 
come, except what was absolutely needed for 
his maintenance, went into the fund for the 
payment of the church debt; and to increase 
this fund he practised the most exacting econo- 
mies. To meet the question of a Catholic 
school Father Connolly turned St. Malachi's 
Church into a school-house, and invited Bar- 
tholomew Lynch, an excellent teacher, to take 
charge. That was in 1856. This school pros- 
pered from the beginning, and in the same year 
we find it on the list of parochial schools en- 
titled to a grant from the New I5runswick gov- 
ernment. This grant of one hundred and fifty 
dollars was obtained through the kindly ser- 
vices of S. L. Tilley, who was not at that time 
even a member of the House. The next work 
of Father Connolly was to procure a pipe organ 
for St. Gertrude's Churcli. This he accom- 
plished by means of a jjicnic — known in local 



history as the "Great Picnic" — which was 
held on Bull's Island, opposite Woodstock, 
in August, 1857, and was perhaps, in point of 
attendance and of net receipts (seventeen hun- 
dred dollars), the greatest of its kind ever held 
in the province. 

Subsequently, under Bishop Sweeney, the 
successor of Bishop Connolly, Father Connolly 
found a new and untried field of labor in the 
active founding of a Catholic colony on the 
east side of the St. John River, north of Wood- 
stock ; and it was largely due to his untiring 
energy, unsparing self-sacrifice, good judgment, 
and practical knowledge of pioneer life, that 
the scheme was a success. In honor of the 
patron of the new settlement. Bishop John 
Sweeney, he called it Johnville. The first 
mass was held in the open air, and was an oc- 
casion never to be forgotten. Perhaps only in 
the earliest days of Acadia had the holy sacri- 
fice been offered amid such picturesque sur- 
roundings. Contemporaneously with the build- 
ing of a church in Johnville Father Connolly 
also erected churches in Williamstown, South 
Richmond, and Canterbury. He was his own 
architect, and made out himself the specifica- 
tions for the different buildings. These years 
in the sixties were filled with labors that dif- 
ercd much from the ordinaiy activities of a 
priest. The experience that lay behind him 
when he had completed the twentieth year of 
his ministry could be duplicated at that time 
by no other priest in New Brunswick. No 
other had worked amid conditions so varied, or 
met difficulties of the most exasperating kind 
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The constant mill-round of e.xiDOSure, fast- 
ing, and hardship had weakened his health. 
When, therefore, Bishop Sweeney, in the 
spring of 1868, invited him to take the rector- 
ship of the Cathedral in St. John, where life 
would be regular and there would be no out- 
side work for him to do, he accepted the invi- 
tation. In October, 1868, Bishop Sweeney 
appointed Father Connolly Vicar-general of 
the Diocese of St. John, a graceful acknowl- 
edgment not only of the merit of his services, 
but of the loyalty of tried friendship. Hence- 
forth, as adviser to the bishop, he had a voice 
in the direction of affairs. During his incum- 
bency at the Cathedral he organized certain 
departments of parish administration, was for 
a time chaplain to the British soldiers sta- 
tioned in the city, chaplain to the penitentiary, 
and founder of the Father Mathew Total Ab- 
stinence Society. 

Not finding his health improve as rapidly in 
St. John as he had reason to expect, perhaps 
owing to the unaccustomed confinement of his 
new position. Father Connolly accepted the 
first opportunity of leaving the city, and in 
April became pastor of the large and flourish- 
ing parish of Grand Digue, in Kent County. 
Thus, after an interval of twenty years, he was 
again back among the French people. Amid 
the restful conditions of life in a French 
parish he gradually recovered his strength. 
In the fall of 1873 the exigencies of religion 
again demanded his presence at Woodstock, 
and he returned to the first arena of his strug- 
gles. Life was now easier in the Woodstock 
mission, yet Father Connolly found employ- 



ment for his activities. In 1875 his labors 
were further eased by the ajDpointment of the 
Rev. Thomas Walsh as assistant to him. 
Father Walsh, whose early death in 1879 was 
much regretted, was the first of a long line of 
young priests whom Father Connolly had asso- 
ciated with him in parish work. 

The death of the Rev. Edward Dunphy, in 
September, 1876, left the Parish of the As- 
sumption, in Carleton, St. John, vacant. 
Father Connolly received the appointment, and 
in November of that year severed forever his 
connection as pastor with Woodstock and its 
missions. Henceforth his life was to move 
along the lines of least resistance. He found 
his new parish thoroughly organized. A resi- 
dence of comfortable proportions; good schools 
housed in a capacious school building, with 
large hall and reading-rooms overhead ; a flour- 
ishing temperance society; a church edifice 
with jjerhaps as handsome and artistic interior 
as was to be found in the Maritime Provinces 
— all this Father Dunphy had left to his suc- 
cessor. Besides, the deceased priest had pro- 
vided in his will funds for the erection of a 
church for the use of Catholics of Fairville, 
Milford, and vicinity, and had devised a prop- 
erty as a free cemetery on the bay shore. 
Father Connolly at once devoted himself to 
carrying out the will of his predecessor. The 
beautiful, but strong and commodious, church 
at Fairville, built according to his own ideas 
of church architecture, is a monument to his 
taste and judgment. He also added a priest's 
residence. In 1879 Father Connolly was 
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Abstinence Union, and in the summer of that 
year he presided over their annual conven- 
tion. 

In the spring of 1889 Bishop Sweeney 
erected a new parish within the city of St. 
John, with the Church of St. John the Baptist 
as parish church, and invited Father Connolly 
to the rectorship. The Vicar-general accepted, 
and on May 16 of that year formally took pos- 
session of his new charge. This was in some 
respects a return to conditions akin to those he 
had to encounter in the early years of his 
priesthood. There was a considerable debt on 
the church in Lower Cove, which was still un- 
finished. The new parish was lacking in or- 
ganization, and there was no parochial resi- 
dence for the clergy. With the energy of his 
younger days Father Connolly at once began 
the erection of a brick residence of three 
stories close to the church on Broad Street. 
He held fairs and bazaars, and organized church 
subscriptions for the liquidation of the parish 
indebtedness. He had the interior of the 
sacred edifice painted and decorated at his own 
private expense; and he furnished the sanctu- 
ary with statues, linens, vestments, flowers, 
and the other appurtenances of worship. In 
the midst of these activities he was honored by 
the Holy See. In May, 1890, letters came 
from Rome constituting him a member of the 
papal household, with the official rank and title 
of Monsignor; and on the fifteenth of the 
month he was formally invested with the dress 
and insignia of his new dignity by his Lord- 
ship, Bishop Sweeney. In the work of mould- 
ing his new parish into shape and in the ordi- 



nary duties of the parish he was assisted in 
succession by the Rev. Desire Legere, the Rev. 
Edward Savage, the Rev. Louis LeBlanc, and 
the late lamented Father Corbett. His pres- 
ent assistant, the Rev. W. C. Gaynor, has been 
with him since February, 1896. 

Father Connolly's interest in the welfare of 
his congregation is evidenced by the purchase 
of a pipe organ for the church in May, i8g8. 
This organ was opened at the solemn high 
mass of his jubilee day, Sunday, July 10, 
1898; and its tones were first heard in the "Te 
Deum " of thanksgiving for his fifty years of 
priesthood. This anniversary celebration was 
the occasion of much rejoicing among Catho- 
lics, and Monsignor Connolly was the recipient 
of many heartfelt congratulations from both 
near and absent friends. In the morning a 
solemn high mass was held in St. John the 
Baptist Church at eleven o'clock. The edifice 
was crowded, and the services of an impressive 
character. The sermon, preached by the Rev. 
H. A. Meahan, of Moncton, was from the text, 
"And I will give you pastors according to my 
own heart, and they shall feed you with knowl- 
edge and doctrine" (Jeremiah iii. 15). In 
the afternoon the Catholic societies marched 
in procession to the church, where appropriate 
services were held, and letters of congratula- 
tion read, among them one from the congrega- 
tion of St. John the Baptist Church, accom- 
panied by a gift of a floral basket containing 
six hundred dollars in gold. In the evening 
about one hundred ladies and gentlemen gath- 
ered at the Monsignor's residence, on in\-itation 
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the presentation to the Monsignor of a por- 
trait of himself, painted for the ladies of the 
congregation by Mr. F. H. C. Miles. And 
thus happily closed a long-to-be-remembered 
day. 

There is little more to add to this outline of 
Father Connolly's labors. He is still the hon- 
ored pastor of St. John the Baptist Church, 
ever active, zealous, energetic, the exemplar 
and model of a priestly life. Age has indeed 
settled down upon him, but with that gentle 
unobtrusiveness with which it takes toll of 
some men. "It is indeed with him the even- 
tide of life: it is also the quiet and glory of 
the sunset. The years of his harvesting are 
now upon him, and the harvest is abundant. 
Each year of the half-century of his ministry 
had its own measure of care, of labor, of an.\- 
ious solicitude for the holy cause which he 
espoused on that July morning in 1848; but 
in the perspective of the years, as he regards 
them from the vantage-ground of his golden 
jubilee in 1898, all sense of toil, of privation, 
of sacrifice, is lost in the joy of faithful and 
continuous stewardship." 

The above sketch is taken largely (being- 
copied in part) from a biographical sketch of 
the Very Rev. Monsignor Thomas Connolly 
Vicar-general, entitled "Fifty Years a Priest," 
"and dedicated to him on the occasion of his 
sacerdotal jubilee by the priests of the diocese 
who have had the privilege of serving under 
him as assistants." It has necessarily been 
much contracted to adapt it for publication in 
this volume. 



fs^AMES F. CONNORS, Police Magis- 
trate and a well-known and respected 
citizen of Chatham, was born in that 
town in 1857. His father, Moses Connors, 
was a native of Ireland, whence he emigrated 
to New Brunswick about 1835. Mr. James F. 
Connors' s brother, the late W. T. Connors, 
was one of Chatham's most popular citizens, 
and occupied many positions of honor and 
trust, among others that of Town Clerk, of 
which he was the first incumbent. He was 
also for over twenty years a member of the 
staff of Her Majesty's customs. Three of Mr. 
Connors's sisters occupy prominent positions 
in religious orders of the Roman Catholic 
Church, to which the family belongs, the eld- 
est sister. Mother M. Cleophas, being now 
stationed in Bermuda, and the other two being 
cloistered nuns of the Hotel Dieu, Chatham. 

James F. Connors received a good education, 
attending as a day scholar St. Michael's Col- 
lege, Chatham, afterward completing a course 
at St. Joseph's University (then a college) at 
Memramcook, and at a later period studying 
law for two years in the office of R. R. Adams, 
Esq., also attending the Dalhousie Law School 
at Halifa.x', N. S. Subsequently he was clerk 
to the Hon. Judge Wilkinson, Revising Officer 
under the Dominion Franchise Act until its 
repeal. In 1893 he was elected, without oppo- 
sition. Counsellor for the parish of Chatham, 
and in 1897 he was re-elected to the same 
office. At the January session of 1898 he was 
elected unanimously 'Warden of the county of 
Northumberland, and in January, i8gS, Town 
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he resigned in April of the same year. He 
was appointed to his present position as Police 
Magistrate of the town of Chatham April 6, 
1898, being the first Police Magistrate ap- 
pointed under the Towns Incorporation Act of 
1896. His appointment was generally ap- 
proved of by the people of town and county, 
among whom he is very popular. 

Mr. Connors married in iSgi Louisa I., 
daughter of Charles Duffy, Esq., of Frederic- 
ton, N.B. 




'rank H. FLEWELLING, of the firm 
s of Slipp & Flewelling, porlc-packers, 
St. John, was born in Greenwich, Kings 
County, N. P. , April 15, 1852, son of John 
and Ann (Belyea) Flewelling. His father was 
born in the same place in 18 14; and his grand- 
father, Caleb Flewelling, a Loyalist, came to 
New Brunswick in 1783. Caleb Plewelling 
settled in Greenwich, where for the rest of his 
active life he operated a grist and saw-mill and 
also carried on a farm. He married a Miss 
Britton, who belonged to a family of Loyalists. 
He lived to be eighty-two years old, and his 
wife attained about the same age. They had 
a family of four sons and eight daughters. 

John Flewelling, Frank H. Flewelling's 
father, was a prosperous farmer and a highly 
esteemed resident of Greenwich. He took a 
lively interest in the welfare of the commu- 
nity, and for a number of years was a warden 
of the Anglican Church. Llis wife, Ann, was 
a daughter of Joseph Belyea. Her ancestors, 
who were loyal to the crown during the Amer- 



ican Revolution, came to this Province after 
the close of the war. She became the mother 
of six children, namely: Susan; Albert G. ; 
Frank H., the subject of this sketch; Freder- 
ick L. ; Walker B. ; and Gertrude. Susan, 
who became the wife of Caleb Flewelling, 
second, died in 1865. Albert G. is residing 
on the home farm. Frederick L. was a mer- 
chant in Indiantown, from 1877 to 1897. 
Walker B. Flewelling is a member of the 
mechanical staff of the Boston Herald. Ger- 
trude is the wife of James Gault of Indian- 
town. John Flewelling died in 1878, aged 
sixty-four; and Mrs. Ann Flewelling died in 
the fall of 1893, at the age of seventy-three 
years. 

Having completed his education at the 
Gagetown Grammar School at the age of six- 
teen, Frank H. Flewelling came to St. John 
and began his training as a clerk in George 
Robertson's grocery store. Establishing him- 
self in the same line of trade at Indiantown in 
1874, he conducted a successful business there 
for over ten years, or until 1885, when he 
formed a partnership with Mr. E. W. Slipp 
under the firm name of Slipp & Flewelling. 
This concern is now carrying on the largest 
pork-packing business in the Maritime Prov- 
inces. 

On December 9, 1S73, Mr. Flewelling was 
joined in marriage with Gertrude Reynolds, 
who also is a representative of a loyal family, 
being a daughter of William Reynolds, of St. 
John, N.B. 

Mr. Flewelling is a Master Mason, and be- 
longs to Hibernian Lodge of this cit}". 




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(^AMES S. GILBERT, merchant and 
ship-owner, St. John, was born in that 
city in 1S22, son of Henry and Eliza 
(Simonds) Gilbert. His father was a grand- 
son of Colonel Thomas Gilbert, a Loyalist, 
who came to New Brunswick from Massachu- 
setts in 1783, and who was a descendant of 
Governor Bradford, of the Plymouth Colony. 
Bradford Gilbert, son of Colonel Thomas and 
father of Henry, who succeeded him in mer- 
cantile business, was an early settler in St. 
John. [Further particulars concerning the 
ancestry of the family will be found in 
sketches of George Godfrey Gilbert, Q. C, and 
of Thomas Gilbert, which appear elsewhere in 
the Review. ] 

James S. Gilbert began his education in the 
schools of St. John, and completed it under 
the direction of a private tutor. At the age of 
seventeen he commenced his business life as 
a clerk in his father's store; and in 1847 he, 
in company with his brothers, Bradford, Henry, 
and Thomas, succeeded to the business under 
the firm name of Gilbert & Co. That concern 
transacted an extensive business as merchants, 
ship-builders, and ship-owners. The elder 
brothers retired one by one, until James S. 
was sole representative of the firm ; and he is 
now proprietor of one of the oldest establish- 
ments of its kind in the city. 



(JOSEPH L. BLACK, a prominent and 
/T^ I highly esteemed citizen of Sackville, 
^^^ N. B., is one of the largest landholders 
of the town and an important factor in the de- 



velopment of its industrial interests. He was 
born January 12, 1829, at Amherst, N.S., son 
of Josiah and Hannah (Embree) Black. He 
is a representative of the fourth generation of 
his family in America. 

His great-grandfather, Captain William 
Black, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 
1727. In 1774 Captain Black emigrated with 
his wife and children to Nova Scotia, and for 
a short time lived in Halifax. He was a 
man of considerable wealth, and arrived in 
unusual style for a colony, bringing with 
him his private physician, a number of ser- 
vants, hounds, horses, and so forth. Going 
from Halifax to Amherst, N.S., he purchased 
a large tract of land, on which he lived until 
his removal to Dorchester, N.B. , where he 
spent his closing days, dying at the age of 
ninety-three years, in 1820. In his early 
manhood he married in England Elizabeth 
Stocks, who, with their little family of four 
sons and one daughter, came with him to 
Nova Scotia. As she was stepping on the 
vessel which was to bear them across the 
ocean, she unfortunately met with a serious 
accident, which caused her death two years 
later. One of the older sons, the Rev. Will- 
iam Black, was the founder of Methodism in 
the maritime provinces, and was the founder 
of the branch of the Black family now living 
in Halifax. The youngest son, Thomas S. , 
became the grandfather of Joseph L. Black, 
the special subject of this sketch. After the 
death of his first wife Captain Black married 
Elizabeth Abber, of Amherst, N. S., by whom 
he had seven children. 



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Thomas S. Black was born in England, and 
came with his parents to Halifax, N. S. , in 
1774. In 1804 he bought five hundred and 
forty acres of land in Amherst, N. S., where 
he subsequently carried on general farming 
until his death, in 1850, at the advanced age 
of eighty-four years. A man of high moral 
character, he was an influential citizen and 
an active worker in religious circles. In his 
early life he was identified with the Meth- 
odists, but later he became a leader in the 
Baptist denomination, and not only served as 
Deacon of the Baptist church in Amherst, but 
frequently filled the pulpit most acceptably. 
He married Mary Freeze, who came with her 
parents from England to Sussex, Kings 
County, N.B. , where they were among the 
original settlers. Thomas S. and Mary F. 
Black reared seven sons and five daughters. 
Alexander B. Black is the only one ol these 
children now living. He married Caroline, 
daughter of the Rev. William Croscomb, of 
Amherst, N. S. , and they have six children — 
William A., Albert S., Frederick, Frank H., 
Charles H., and Ernest L. The four elder 
sons are residents of the Western States, 
where three of them are active ministers of 
the Methodist persuasion, while Frank H. is 
a successful farmer. 

Josiah Black, son of Thomas S., was born 
in Amherst, N. S., where he spent his long 
and busy life of ninety-two years and some 
months, an honored and respected citizen. 
Shortly after attaining man's estate he settled 
on a portion of the old homestead property 
which his father gave him, and he subse- 



quently added to the acreage of his farm by 
the purchase of adjoining land. There he was 
successfully engaged in the prosecution of his 
chosen calling during his days of activity, and 
was one of the model farmers of the neighbor- 
hood in which he resided. His first wife, 
Hannah Embree, daughter of Elisha Embree, 
of Amherst, bore him five sons and four 
daughters. Four of these children are now 
living, namely: Joseph L. ; Mary E. ; Ann, 
who married John Bent, a farmer of Amherst, 
N.S. ; and Thomas R. The latter married 
Eunice, daughter of W. W. Bent, late of 
Amherst, N. S., and is the father of three chil- 
dren, namely: William W. , who married 
Annie Jenks, of Parrsboro, N. S., and has four 
children; Charles C, who married Annie 
Christie, of Amherst; and Myra, wife of the 
Rev. Ralph Trotter, of Victoria, B.C. Mrs. 
Hannah Embree Black died in 1842, aged 
forty years, and her widowed husband after- 
ward married Miss McCully, daughter of the 
late Rev. Samuel McCully, a Baptist minister 
of Amherst, and a sister of Judge Jonathan 
McCully, of Nova Scotia. Of the two chil- 
dren born of this union one child is living, 
Samuel McCully Black, of St. John, N.B., 
editor of the Baptist Visitor. He married 
Eva, daughter of the late Mr. Rogers, of 
Amherst, N. S. , and has two children — 
Horace and Margaret. 

Joseph L. Black obtained his elementary 
education in the public schools of Amherst, 
N. S., after which he took a course of study at 
Mount Allison Academy in Sackville, N.B. 
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worked on the farm until attaining his major- 
ity. In 1852 he engaged in mercantile busi- 
ness in Sackville, which he has extended and 
which now embraces nearly all lines of mer- 
chandise, both wholesale and retail, and in 
volume of yearly turn-over equals the largest 
in his county. He has continued his resi- 
dence at Sackville, and by his energetic ability 
has become one of the leading men of the 
place. He has acquired a large area of the 
most valuable marsh and high lands, and is at 
present also carrying on general farming and 
lumber manufacturing and dealing. His tim- 
ber lands, in the northern part of Westmor- 
land County, are above twenty thousand acres 
in extent. He also owns and operates lumber 
and flour mills. He makes a specialty of 
raising hay, cutting oftentimes as many as 
six hundred tons in a season. 

Progressive and enterprising, Mr. Black has 
been identified with the establishment of 
many industries that have proved of value to 
the town, and has always taken a genuine in- 
terest in its political, social, and educational 
welfare. As a Liberal Conservative he rep- 
resented Westmorland County in the Provin- 
cial House two terms, and is Justice of the 
Peace; but, finding the vexations and annoy- 
ances in Representative capacity a hinderance 
to freedom in business life, he declined longer 
to continue therein. He is chairman of the 
Executive Committee of Board of Regents of 
Mount Allison University of Sackville. He 
is very active in religious matters, and is a 
trustee of the Methodist church, which he and 
his family attend. 



In 1857 Mr. Black married Jane Humphrey, 
a sister of the late John A. Humphrey, of 
Moncton, N.B. She died at the early age of 
twenty-six years, leaving one child, Minnie, 
who is the wife of Edmund Burke, of Toronto, 
and has three children — Cathleene, Helen, 
and Nora. Mr. Black subsequently married 
Mary Snowball, sister of Senator Snowball, of 
Miramichi, N. B. , and daughter of the Rev. 
John Snowball, at that time of Sackville. 
The four children born of the second marriage 
are: Hattie S., wife of B. E. Patterson, edi- 
tor of the Amherst P^iTj-j,- Jennie; Frank B., 
a Captain in the Volunteer Cavalry, Eighth 
Hussars; and John W. S. , a Lieutenant in 
the same company. 



M 



AVID O'CONNELL is a well-known 
„ . business man of St. John, N. B. , 
where he was born in December, 
1850. His parents, Thomas and Annie (Rear- 
don) O'Connell, came to this country in 1840, 
and settled in St. John. 

Thomas O'Connell was born and reared in 
Limerick, Ireland. In St. John he engaged 
in the grocery and liquor business, and also 
carried on some farming. He and his wife 
had a family of ten children, five sons and five 
daughters. Four of these — namely, John, 
William, Ellen, and Annie — died in child- 
hood. The survivors are: Bartholomew, Da- 
vid, and James, all of St. John; Mary, who is 
the wife of Thomas Kenney, of St. John ; 
Nora, who is the wife of William Finney, of 
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Robert Robertson, of Philadelphia, Pa. The 
father died in 1S68, at the age of fifty-six; and 
the mother died on September 19, 1895, at the 
age of eighty-four. 

David O'Connell grew to manhood in his 
native city, and at the age of sixteen began 
driving a team for the Eagle Foundry. After 
working for this firm for three years, he started 
in business for himself as a trucker. His 
mother borrowed fifty dollars for him, with 
which to purchase a team, agreeing to pay a 
dollar a month interest. So successful was he 
from the start that at the end of his second 
week he was able to repay the loan. He 
worked at trucking for seven years, and at the 
end of that time bought out a livery business 
in Union Street. Six years later he moved to 
Sydney Street, where he stayed fifteen years; 
and in 1895 he built his present stable in 
Waterloo Street. This is the most complete 
livery in St. John, and has patronage from the 
best class of people. Mr. O'Connell has now 
been in business for over a quarter of a cent- 
ury, and his experience fits him to cope with 
any emergency. He has done considerable 
contract work in teaming. For twenty-five 
years he has carried the government mail. He 
had the contract for takir.g out the foundation 
for the Opera House, and for the last six years 
he has had charge of watering and cleaning the 
streets of St. John. He has also had the con- 
tract for supplying horses for Campobello 
Hotel. In connection with his livery business 
Mr. O'Connell has bought and sold many 
horses, bringing them from Montreal and Prince 
Edward Island, and selling them in this city. 



Mr. O'Connell was married in 1875 to 
Bridget Forrest. She died in October, 1888, 
having been the mother of four children — 
Mary, Laura, Blanche, and William. On No- 
vember 14, 1S90, Mr. O'Connell was united 
in marriage with Mary Burns, of St. John. 



tRTHUR N. SHAW, carriage manufac- 
turer, St. John, was born in Moncton, 
<— ' N. B. , June i, 1833, son of Stephen 
H. and Mary (Stedman) Shaw. His grand- 
father, Duncan Shaw, a native of Perthshire, 
Scotland, served as a midshipman in the Brit- 
ish navy during the American Revolution, and, 
returning to Europe after the close of the war, 
retired from the service. 

Duncan Shaw was a graduate of the Edin- 
burgh University. Having been favorably im- 
pressed with the inducements offered to settlers 
in America, he recrossed the Atlantic; and 
after his marriage, which took place in Port- 
land, Me., he settled in Sackville, N.B. En- 
gaging in the ship-building business, he con- 
structed the first two vessels launched in that 
town, which were captured by American pri- 
vateers during the War of 1812. He opened 
the plaster mines at Albert, built a hotel in 
Sackville known as the "Shaw House," which 
he managed for some time; and he served as 
Deputy-sheriff. Being the first graduate of 
Edinburgh University to locate in the settle- 
ment, he was considered a valuable acquisition, 
and was one of the pioneer schoolmasters in 
Sackville. He was prominently identified with 
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He attended the Church of England. Duncan 
Shaw lived to be over eighty years old. Of 
his union with his first wife, who was a daugh- 
ter of CajDtain Hamm, of Portland, Me., were 
born five children; namely, Stephen H., 
Martha, Sarah, William, and Charles. Martha 
married a Mr. Lewis; and Sarah married Gen- 
eral Harper, of Shed lack. Duncan Shaw mar- 
ried for his second wife a Miss Steeves, and 
had one son, James, and one daughter, Susan, 
who became the wife of John Cameron. 

Stephen H. Shaw, son of Duncan and father 
of Arthur N. Shaw, was born in Sack vi lie in 
1 80 1. He was educated by his father, and 
taught school in his native town three years. 
Entering the employ of Captain Stanton, a 
ship-builder, as clerk and book-keeper, he was 
for a number of years in charge of the captain's 
store; and after that, going to Oak Point, he 
filled a similar position there for some time. 
He was next employed for a while at Ara- 
mocto, N. B. , and still later was engaged in 
the lumber business at Moncton. Going to 
St. John in 1S36, he had charge of H. J. & D. 
McKay's saw-mills until 1850, when his em- 
ployers retired from business; and he subse- 
quently managed the lumber business of the 
Hon. John Robertson. He was secretary and 
manager of the South Bay Boom Company 
from 1858 to 1876, when he retired. During 
the last ten years of his life he suffered pa- 
tiently from the loss of his eyesight. Stephen 
PL Shaw died May 12, 1886. He was a mem- 
ber of the Methodist church. His first wife, 
Mary, was a native of Moncton, daughter of 
William and Pfannah (Trites) Stedman, the 



former of whom came to New Brunswick with 
the Loyalists after the close of the American 
Revolution, and followed the blacksmith's 
trade in connection with farming. William 
Stedman and his wife both lived to an advanced 
age. They were the parents of ten children; 
namel}', John, William, James, Enoch, Betsey, 
Mary, Margaret, Nancy, Caroline, and Frances. 
Mrs. Mary S. Shaw died January 14, 1849; 
and Stephen H. Shaw married for his second 
wife Betsey Lee, a daughter of Major Lee, of 
St. John. She died July 27, 1897, aged 
ninety-two. Stephen H. was the father of ten 
children, all by his first marriage; namely, 
W^illiam Duncan, Edmund P., Arthur N., 
George, Charles S., John, James, Caroline, 
Martha, and Mary. Of these William Dun- 
can, George, and John are no longer living. 
Edmund P., Charles S., James, and Arthur N., 
the subject of this sketch, reside in St. John. 
Caroline married Colonel William Cunard, of 
St. John ; Martha married Edgar Whiteside, 
now of Palatka Heights, Fla. ; and Mary is the 
wife of Frederick Coleman, of Fredericton. 

Arthur N. Shaw was educated in the public 
schools. After serving an apprenticeship of 
four years at the carriage-maker's trade with 
Jeremiah Harrison he worked as a journeyman 
in Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut 
for two years. Returning to St. John he re- 
entered the employ of Mr. Harrison, with 
whom he remained until the factory was 
burned, when, in company with James A. 
Price, Samuel Crothers, and Henry Sayre, he 
bought the property and rebuilt the shop. 
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years, at the end of which time Messrs. Price 
& Shaw established the business which they 
are still conducting. They manufacture all 
kinds of vehicles in a durable as well as an 
artistic manner, and are one of the oldest car- 
riage-building firms in St. John. 

On November i, 1859, Mr. Shaw was united 
in marriage with Miss Margaret E. Hilyard, 
daughter of the late Thomas Hilyard, of St. 
John. They have had eight children — Will- 
iam H., Ernest Lee, Mary, Matilda, Loretta 
L., Annie, Charles, and Arthur. William H. 
Shaw is in business with his father. Ernest 
Lee, Annie, Charles, and Arthur are no longer 
living. 

Mr. Shaw was formerly quite active in pub- 
lic affairs, and served with ability as treasurer 
of the first Town Council. He attends the 
Wesleyan Methodist church. 




^ETER MITCHELL, the progenitor of 
the Mitchell family of Miramichi, 
N.B. , was a native of Aberdeen, Scot- 
land. He came to New Brunswick in 1816, 
when a young man, and, settling in Newcastle, 
engaged in the hotel business, which he fol- 
lowed for many years. He was burned out in 
the great fire of 1825. His wife, Barbara 
Grant, to whom he was married in 181S, was 
a member of the great clan Grant, of Spey 
Side. Their children were eight in number — 
Agnes, Bella, Peter, James, Barbara, Jane, 
William, and Mary. Agnes married Patrick 
Watt, and had three children — Jane, William, 
and George. Bella married George W'att in 



1857, and died in the West in 1873. A sepa- 
rate sketch of Peter (the Hon. Peter Mitchell) 
may be found elsewhere in this volume. Bar- 
bara died unmarried in 1853. Jane is now 
a resident of the United States. William died 
in 1845. Mary became the wife of John 
Hardy, an employee in the Marine Office at 
Ottawa. Peter Mitchell, the father, died in 
1850. His wife, surviving him eighteen 
years, passed away in 1868. 

James Mitchell, son of Peter and Barbara 
(Grant) Mitchell, was born October 10, 1825, 
three days after the great fire of Miramichi, 
being the first white child born in the county 
after that memorable event. He received his 
education in the grammar-school of Newcastle. 
Appointed High Sheriff in 1855, he made one 
of the best sheriffs that Northumberland County 
ever had, holding the office from 1855 to 1871. 
In the year last named he resigned it in order 
to accept the appointment of Inspector of 
Lights under his brother, Peter, who was then 
Minister of Marine and Fisheries. He con- 
tinued in this position until he was superannu- 
ated, since which time he has lived retired at 
his home in Newcastle. 

He was first married in 1853 to Miss Ann 
Jane Caldwell, a native of Newcastle. Her 
father came to New Brunswick from the north 
of Ireland. James and Ann J. Mitchell were 
the parents of several children, of whom three 
attained maturity, namely: William, a civil 
engineer, now in British Columbia, who mar- 
ried Lily McLagan ; James, a barrister, mar- 
ried to Isabella McCurdy, who died at Medi- 
cine Hat, in February, 1S98, at the age of 




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forty-two years; and Clarence, who married 
a Miss McCurdy, and is now a civil engineer 
in Manitoba. The mother of these children 
died in 1869; and James Mitchell married for 
his second wife, in 1870, Miss Belle McCurdy, 
a daughter of Isaac McCurdy, a native of Truro, 
N. S., and of Scotch descent. By this union 
there was one son, Charles, a barrister at Med- 
icine Hat, N.W.T. Mr. James Mitchell is 
a member of the Presbyterian church. 



(s^OHN M. TAYLOR, an enterprising 
and successful commission merchant of 
St. John, was born in Bunccranna, a 
town situated on the shore of Loch Swilly, in 
the County Donegal, Ireland, about ten miles 
from Londonderry, in 1837. His parents were 
Samuel and Esther (Wilson) Taylor, the for- 
mer of whom was an officer in her majesty's 
revenue service. 

Samuel Taylor was born in the castle of 
Bunccranna. The castle was then occupied by 
his maternal grandfather, Captain Moore, a 
retired revenue officer, who, with his son-in- 
law, George Taylor, of Dublin, was acting as 
a commissary agent for the British govern- 
ment. During the Franco-Spanish War, Cap- 
tain Moore commanded the four-masted pri- 
vateer "Fame," of Dublin, which carried a 
force of five hundred men ; and he handled her 
so successfully that he not only gained the 
thanks of the government, but was tendered 
the freedom of the city of Dublin. At the 
time of the unsuccessful attempt to land 
French and Irish soldiers in the north of Ire- 



land, one of the vessels, called "La Hoach," 
having on board a large number of Irish rebels 
and French filibusters, was captured and 
brought into Loch Swilly. On the following 
Sunday morning the captured officers, with 
the officers of the British ship, were invited 
to breakfast by Captain Moore, who immedi- 
ately recognized among the French officers an 
old schoolmate and disguised Irish rebel, 
named Wolfe Tone. It may be interesting to 
the reader to know that a jDJcture of the pri- 
vateer "Fame," representing her entry into 
the Bay of Naples with her three prizes, is 
still in existence, and is owned by one of her 
commander's descendants. He also has a 
document, printed upon satin, which was pre- 
sented to Captain Moore by the Dey of 
Algiers, a duelling pistol, and several other 
keepsakes which formerly belonged to his 
sturdy ancestor. 

John M. Taylor came to St. John when a 
young lad, and conseciuently has but a slight 
remembrance of his birthplace. He acquired 
a practical education in the schools of the 
city, and in 1867 he became a member of 
the firm of Taylor & Wilson, engaged in the 
brokerage and commission business on North 
Wharf. After the retirement of his partner, 
which took place in 1870, he continued the 
business alone, and occupied the same prem- 
ises until 1877, when he moved to the build- 
ing he now owns, situated at the corner of 
North Wharf and Nelson Street. 

Mr. Taylor married for his first wife Eliza- 
beth Crosby, daughter of H. B. and Elizabeth 
(Buckson) Crosby, and after her death he mar- 



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ried her sister, Alice M. Crosby. Mr. and 
Mrs. Crosby, their parents, were born in 
Albion, Me. ; and Mr. Crosby, who was a well- 
known contractor and a member of the firm of 
Small & Crosby, of St. John, returned to his 
birthplace to pass his declining days. Two 
children born of Mr. Taylor's first marriage 
died. Of the second marriage there are three 
children; namely, Harold Grant, Stanley 
Hartwell, and Elizabeth. Harold Grant 
Taylor is studying theology, and Stanley 
Hartwell Taylor is a member of Clark & 
Taylor, of St. John, N.B. 

Mr. Taylor has interested himself in some 
of the best-known charitable institutions of 
this city, being a governor of the Wiggins 
Male Orphan Institution, a director of the 
Protestant Orphan Asylum and of the Home 
for Aged Females, and he is treasurer of the 
New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. He is also Deputy 
Supreme Regent of the Royal Arcanum, a di- 
rector of the Horticultural Association, a 
director of the Deaf and Dumb Institution of 
Fredericton, N. B. , and a retired officer of the 
New Brunswick Regiment of Artillery. 



^OHN W. DANIEL, M.D., M.R.C.S., 
of St. John, N.B. was born in St. 
Stephen, N.B., January 27, 1S45, a son 
of the late Rev. Henry Daniel. 

Henry Daniel was born in 1807, in Pen- 
zance, County Cornwall, England. He was 
ordained as a minister of the gospel in Lon- 
don, and by the Methodist Mission Board of 



that city was sent in 1830 as a missionary to 
St. Andrews, N.B. On entering upon his 
work in that place, he found no church organ- 
ization, and but six persons who were commu- 
nicants; but at the end of one short year he 
found himself at the head of a church with 
thirty active members. He labored in various 
parts of the Maritime Provinces a number of 
years with great success, but in 1849 returned 
to England, to there engage in ministerial 
work. At the urgent request, however, of 
many people on this side of the Atlantic, he 
again came to New Brunswick, where he 
labored until 1870. He subsequently lived 
retired, and, with the exception of a short time 
spent in Fredericton just after the fire, resided 
with his son John. Pie was prominently iden- 
tified with the religious organizations of his 
denomination, and for a number of years was 
chairman of the district, serving in that capac- 
ity until his election in 1S68 as vice-presi- 
dent of the conference, a position which he 
filled for a year, when he was made president 
of the organization. He married Honor Bran- 
well Edmonds, of Penzance, England, by 
whom he had si.x children, namely: Emma B., 
deceased; Mary Elizabeth; Eliza Edmonds; 
Henry Marwood, deceased; John W., the spe- 
cial subject of this sketch ; and the Rev. 
Robert Abbott Daniel, deceased. The Rev. 
Henry Daniel died November 8, 1896. His 
wife preceded him to the better land, having 
died May 24, 1883. She was own cousin to 
Charlotte Bronte, the well-known English 
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he accompanied his parents to Bath, Somerset- 
shire, England, where he subsequently pur- 
sued his studies for several years. After com- 
ing back to New Brunswick, he studied medi- 
cine in New York City, N.Y. , and graduated 
from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College 
in 1865. Then entering the United States 
army as acting assistant surgeon. Dr. Daniel 
served on hospital duty, first at New Orleans 
and then at Fort Gaines, Ala. After the cap- 
ture of Mobile he was placed on duty there, 
and subsequently given charge of the officers' 
hospital of that city. From there he was sent 
up Red River, and was connected with the 
Eighth Illinois Regiment until transferred to 
the hospital at Shreveport, La., of which he 
had charge until he resigned from the army. 
After spending a month or two in the North, 
Dr. Daniel went to London, England, where, 
becoming attached to the London Hospital, he 
served under the late celebrated Jonathan 
Hutchinson, F. R. C.S., and graduated from 
the Royal College of Surgeons, of which he 
was a member. Returning then to the Prov- 
inces, Dr. Daniel spent two years in Uver- 
pool, N.S. , whence he came to St. John, where 
he has since continued in the successful prac- 
tice of his profession. 

Dr. Daniel holds high rank among his pro- 
fessional brethren, and is connected with the 
leading medical organizations of the Prov- 
ince, being a member of the New Brunswick 
Medical Society, which he has served as presi- 
dent, and a member and past president of the 
St. John Medical Society. He is a member 
of Court Log Cabin, of which he is Court Phy- 



sician, and is likewise past president of St. 
George's Societ}'. He is a member of the 
St. John Board of Health, one of the commis- 
sioners of the General Public J-iospital, and is 
surgeon, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, 
of the Third Canadian Artillery. Frater- 
nally, the Doctor was a Mason in Liverpool, 
N. S., and demitted to St. John's Lodge, 
A. F. & A. M. Politically, he is a Liberal 
Conservative. In 1894 he was elected Alder- 
man from St. John, attached to Queens Ward, 
and re-elected in 1896 and 1897. He served 
most efficiently as chairman of the Treasury 
Board, as a member of the Board of Works, of 
the Board of Management, of the Advisory 
Board in connection with Harbor Improve- 
ments, and as chairman of the conjoint Com- 
mittee of the Common Council and the Board 
of Trade on Pilotage Matters. He attends and 
supports the Centenary Methodist Church. 

Dr. Daniel married Miss Jessie Porteous, 
daughter of the late John tennis, of St. John, 
N.B. 




LEXANDER CHRISTIE, son of Will- 
iam and Annie Christie, natives of 
Scotland, was born on September i, 
1826, at Nerepis, Kings County, N.B. The 
Christie family consisted of Alexander, James, 
John, William (Jr.), Elizabeth, Annie, and 
Jane. 

Mr. Christie emigrated to St. John in 1845, 
where he learned the trade of carpenter. In 
1865 he entered into partnership with John 
Ferguson, and started a door and sash factory, 
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large business, and erected some of the finest 
buildings in St. John. Among them may be 
mentioned the Masonic and Odd Fellows' 
Halls, Simeon Jones's residence, the old Vic- 
toria Hotel, and the Academy of Music, which 
stood before the great fire of 1877. In 1883 
the firm of A. Christie & Co. was dissolved, 
and the business was taken over by the A. 
Christie Wood-working Company, Mr. Christie 
being appointed manager of the latter. On 
two occasions Mr. Christie's factory was de- 
stroyed by fire. 

Mr. Christie's first wife, whose maiden name 
was Sarah McAllister, bore him no children. 
To him and his second wife, Annie Sinclair, 
daughter of John and Janet Sinclair, and a 
native of Orkney, Scotland, four children were 
born — William A., Annie J. L., James, and 
Charles S. Christie. Annie is the wife of 
John B. Roberts, of New York. Mr. Chris- 
tie is a member of the Masonic Order. 




^OLONEL RICHARD BENJAMIN 
KETCHUM, a retired merchant of 
Woodstock, Carleton County, N.B. , 
his native place, was born on November 26, 
1832, son of James and Mary C. (Griffith) 
Ketchum. His paternal grandfather, Colonel 
Richard Ketchum, a Loyalist, removed from 
Long Island, N.Y., to Woodstock in the 
early days of its settlement, and was here en- 
gaged in farming and lumbering, paying espe- 
cial attention to the latter industry. He was 
a man of prominence, having his title from 
his rank in the militia, and serving for one 



term as a member of the Provincial Parlia- 
ment. He was a chief promoter of the build- 
ing of the first church edifice in the town of 
Woodstock, being a large subscriber, and he 
was subsequently a warden of the church sev- 
eral years. He also acted as Justice of the 
Peace. 

James Ketchum was born and reared in 
Woodstock, and during his active life followed 
farming as an occupation. He was interested 
in military matters, and served as RTajor in 
the militia. At one time he held the office of 
Supervisor of Great Roads, which then in- 
cluded the care of the roads between Freder- 
icton and Grand Falls and between Wood- 
stock and Houlton, Me. He married Mary C, 
daughter of Benjamin Peck Griffith, of Wood- 
stock, who as Major in a regiment of the Brit- 
ish regular army, took part in the American 
Revolutionary War. They had eight chil- 
dren: Frederick (deceased), late of Arroyo 
Grande, San Luis Obispo County, Cal. ; 
Elizabeth (deceased), who was the wife of the 
late Thomas Timus Vernon Smith, C.E., of 
Windsor, N. S. ; Charles, a resident of the 
parish of Woodstock; Richard B. , the subject 
of this sketch; Mary, who died at the age 
of eighteen years; Charlotte Augusta (de- 
ceased), who was the wife of the late Charles 
H. Bull ; Frances, who died at the age of 
eighteen years; and Harriet C. (deceased), 
who was the first wife of H. A. Connell. 
Both parents were members of the Church of 
England. 

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he was twenty-two years old remained on the 
parental homestead. Starting then in busi- 
ness for himself, he opened a store at Upper 
Woodstock, where he was successfully en- 
gaged as a merchant for a quarter of a century. 
In 1S80 he removed to Aroostook County, 
Maine, and in company with H. C. Sharpe, 
under the firm nam.e of Sharpe & Ketchum, 
engaged in the manufacture of lumber on an 
extensive scale, and until iSgo carried on a 
flourishing business, having four mills in oper- 
ation the greater part of the time. In that 
year the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. 
Ketchum took the mill at Hodgdon, Me., 
where he continued manufacturing lumber 
until his retirement in 1896. 

Colonel Ketchum took an active interest in 
everything pertaining to militia affairs from 
his youth up, and for a number of years was 
Captain of Company I, Si.xty-seventh Battal- 
ion, Carleton Light Infantry. He was after- 
ward appointed Adjutant, then made Major of 
his regiment, and subsequently appointed its 
Colonel, an office which he held until his 
resignation from the service. 

He is a Conservative in politics. For 
eight or more years he was County Councillor 
for the town and parish of Woodstock. He 
was likewise Warden of the county for a year. 
In 1897 he was elected Town Councillor, and 
while in this office served as chairman of the 
Street Committee and as a member of the 
Sewer and Finance Committees. He attends 
the Anglican Church, of which he is an active 
member. 

Mr. Ketchum married Mal-tha Ann Eliza- 




beth, daughter of George N. IkiU, of Wood- 
stock. They have two children -^ Frank W. 
and Frances Maria. Frances Maria married 
Duppa Smith, of Woodstock, and they have 
five children; namely, Maud K., Marguerite, 
Madeline, Gladys, and Dorothy. Frank W. 
Ketchum married Olive Barton, of Houlton, 
Me., and has two children — Richard and Jo- 
sephine. 

< < ■ w » 

|OBERT MAXWELL, the well-known 
building contractor of St. John, and 
Alderman from Prince Ward, was 
born in Fredericton, N.B., June 17, 1858, 
son of John and Eliza (Baxter) Maxwell. His 
grandfather, also named John Maxwell, emi- 
grated from Ireland, accompanied by his fam- 
ily, and, settling upon a farm in P^edericton, 
he resided there until his death, which oc- 
curred at the age of about sixty-seven years. 

John Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's father, 
was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and 
brought across the ocean while in his infancy. 
When old enough to learn a trade he was ap- 
prenticed to a mason, with whom he remained 
five years, and at the expiration of his term of 
service he engaged in business for himself. 
P"or many years he has been prominently iden- 
tified with the building operations of Frederic- 
ton, having erected a number of well-known 
buildings, including business blocks, resi- 
dences, etc., and he has acquired a high repu- 
tation. During his younger days he took an 
active interest in military affairs, and when the 
Fenian movement threatened to seriously dis- 
turb the tranquillity of the Provinces, he was 



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commissioned a Lieutenant in the militia. 
He belongs to the Order of Foresters, and in 
1899 was elected Alderman for the city of 
Fredericton. His wife, Eliza, who is also a 
native of County Tyrone, came to New Bruns- 
wick with her parents when twelve years old; 
and her father, Samuel Baxter, died during 
the jDassage. She has had seven children — 
Robert, Elizabeth, Fanny, James, Maggie, 
Willie, and Lillian. Elizabeth married James 
Biggs, of Fredericton ; Fanny married Thomas 
E. Dyer, of St. John. James died at the age 
of twelve years, Maggie died at the age of one 
year, and Willie died in infancy. 

Robert Maxwell acquired his education in 
Fredericton under the direction of Drs. Rob- 
erts and Coster, and Mr. John Moore. Hav- 
ing served an apprenticeship under his father 
he, in 1877, came to St. John, where he 
worked as a journeyman some six years, and in 
1883 he entered into partnershijj with the late 
William Causey, a native of Plymouth, Eng- 
land, and for sixty years a prominent builder 
in this city. The firm of Causey & Maxwell 
continued until the death of the former, which 
occurred in March, 1895, and for the past four 
years Mr. Maxwell has conducted business 
alone. He erected the Union Baptist Semi- 
nary, St. Martins; the Centennial School, St. 
John; the Sunday-school building connected 
with the Stone Church ; the residence of Sir 
Leonard Tilley, and several handsome dwell- 
ing-houses on Germain .Street; the C. H. 
Peters block; the Main Street ]5aptist Church, 
and other buildings of note — all of which are 
unusually fine specimens of the builder's ait. 



In 1878 Mr. Maxwell was united in mar- 
riage with Pamelia T. McConnell, daughter of 
Moses McConnell, who came from Ireland 
when young. They have had eight children; 
namely, Charles Tilley, Mabel, John Herbert, 
Flossie and Edward (twins), Edith, Hazel, and 
Vera. All are living except Edward. 

Mr. Maxwell was elected to the Board of 
School Trustees in 1897, and to the Board of 
Aldermen in 1898, and Warden of the county 
of St. John in 1899. He is Past Grand 
Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance 
of New Brunswick, Past Grand Lecturer of the 
Orange Society of New Brunswick, and Past 
Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of For- 
esters. He also belongs to the Knights of 
Pythias and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. 




rail ON. HARRISON A. McKEOWN, 
M. P. P. , a member of the government 
of New Brunswick, is a well-known 
barrister of St. John, and was born in St. 
Stephen, N.B., November 28, 1863, son of the 
Rev. Hezekiah and Elizabeth S. (Harrison) 
McKeown. He was educated at the Collegiate 
School at Fredericton and at Mount Allison 
University, being graduated a Bachelor of Arts 
from the latter in iSSi. He studied law in 
the offices of Dr. A. A. Stockton and Attorney- 
general White, and in 1SS4 was admitted as an 
attorney of the Supreme Court, since which 
time he has been actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of law in the city of St. John, N.B. He 
is a graduate in law from Victoria L^niversity, 
taking his degree at that institution in 1SS5. 




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He represented the city and county of St. John 
in the Provincial Legislature for one term, 
from 1890 to 1892, and was elected in 1899 to 
the same body as a member for the city. On 
the reconstruction of the New Brunswick gov- 
ernment in January, 1900, Mr. McKeown was 
taken into the Cabinet and is a member of the 
Emmerson administration. 



Tt^^EV. HEZEKIAH McKEOWN was 
l^\ born at Nictaux Falls, N. S., in the 
V—-' year 1830. He was educated at 
Middletown University, Middletown, Conn. 
In the year 1853 he became identified with 
the Methodist Conference of the Maritime 
Provinces, and upon the division of the Con- 
ference according to provinces he became a 
member of the New Brunswick division. Pie 
occupied a prominent position among the cler- 
gymen of that body, and was recognized as a 
most effective pulpit orator as well as a skil- 
ful administrator of church affairs. He filled 
the foremost pulpits of the church, being sta- 
tioned at St. John, P^redericton, Woodstock, 
St. Stephen (twice), and Chatham. He married 
Elizabeth S. Plarrison, of Sheffield, Sunbury 
County, and had five children : Hon. Harrison 
A. MtKeown; William A. McKeown; Edith 
S. Campbell, wife of the Rev. G. M. Camp- 
bell ; Bessie C. Clarke, wife of George J. 
Clarke, of St. Stephen; and Maude E. Bon- 
nell, wife of Dr. S. Bonnell, of Fernie, B.C. 

Mr. McKeown was conspicuous among the 
clergymen of the Methodist denomination in 
New Brunswick for many years. He held the 



highest positions in the gift of the church, 
being president of the Conference in 1878, and 
being almost invariably chairman of the dis- 
trict in which his sphere of activity lay. His 
death occurred at Sussex, Kings County, on 
October 9, 1883, from heart failure. 



JOSEPH FINLEY, wholesale grocer, St. 
John, was born in County Donegal, Ire- 
land, in 1836, son of William and Mary 
Finley. Coming to St. John in 1858, he took 
a position as travelling salesman, and a year 
later entered the employ of the well-known 
wholesale grocery firm of L. H. Deveber & 
Sons, with whom he remained nineteen years, 
and as buyer for that firm crossed the Atlantic 
some forty times. Upon the retirement of 
L. H. Deveber & Sons, Mr. Plnley established 
himself in business on Water Street, where he 
soon afterward added dry goods to his stock, 
and later moved to Prince William Street, 
where he built up a large trade. Purchasing 
his present quarters on Dock Street, he sold 
out his dry-goods department, and since taking 
possession of this store has given his attention 
wholly to his grocery trade, which is one of 
the largest in the Province. He is a self-made 
man, and his success in business is the result 
of his practical sagacity, perfect knowledge of 
the business, and a personal acquaintance with 
the majority of his customers. Mr. P^inley 
has always advocated the system of cash trade 
or short credit, and, acting upon this principle, 
he has made a reputation as a close buyer, 
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tomers the benefit in reduced prices for cash. 
He started with a capital of ten thousand dol- 
lars, and at the end of the eighth year his sales 
had increased to three hundred thousand dol- 
lars for the year. Although taking no active 
part in politics, he has always been a consis- 
tent Liberal. 




HARLES E. FISH, M.P.P., who is 
I extensively engaged in stone quarry- 
ing and also owns a modern roller 
flour-mill at Newcastle, is a son of the late 
James and Elizabeth (McAllister) Fisli and 
grandson of James Alexander P^ish, a pioneer 
settler of Miramichi. 

James Alexander Fish was a native of 
VVaterville, Me. His wife, whose name in 
maidenhood was Sophia Childs, was also a 
native of Maine and a member of a prominent 
family of that State. Coming to New Bruns- 
wick some years after his marriage, he settled 
on the Miramichi River, where he found em- 
ployment at lumbering, working in the woods. 
He then sent for his family, which consisted 
of his wife, two sons and a daughter — James, 
Hiram, and Esther. Though the children 
were small at the time, they all accomplished 
the journey on foot. Starting from "VVater- 
ville in September, they proceeded first to St. 
John, thence up the river to Fredericton, and 
thence across country to Miramichi, the roads 
being generally ]ioor, and for a part of the 
way, at least, non-existent. Grandfather Fish 
died only three years after settling there. 
His wife, surviving him, lived to the age of 



eighty-six years. Her maiden name was 
Sophia Childs. She was a native of Maine, 
and belonged to a prominent family of that 
State. All the children are now deceased, 
the daughter, Esther, having lived but a short 
time after their settlement on the Miramichi. 
Hiram, who died at the age of about thirty- 
eight years, was by occupation a tanner and 
currier. 

James Fish, the other son, was reared to 
manhood in Miramichi. Working in the 
woods with his father, he acquired a practical 
knowledge of lumbering, and subsequently 
engaged in business on his own account, being 
at one time one of the most extensive shippers 
of lumber in Newcastle. He also had a 
large farm, which he conducted successfully, 
and by his enterprise and industry accumu- 
lated a large property. It is related to his 
credit that at an early age he assisted largely 
in supporting his widowed mother. He was 
married in 1844 to Miss Elizabeth McAllister, 
a native of New Brunswick and daughter of 
John McAllister, who came from Edinburgh, 
Scotland, about i8i8, settling in Doaktown. 
Mrs. Fish's father was a man of more than 
ordinary intelligence. He conducted a card- 
ing-mill and grist-mill, besides being engaged 
in farming and lumbering. Her mother, who 
was in maidenhood a Miss Ogilvie, of Edin- 
burgh, came of a prominent Dumfriesshire 
family. James Fish was for many years a 
magistrate. He was a trustee and active 
worker in the Presbyterian church, and was 
also a Free Mason. His death occurred in 
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children, of whom four — Howard, Esther, 
Frank, and Mary — died in childhood, and 
one son, Hiram A., a physician, died in Jan- 
uary, 1897. The survivors are as follows: 
James O. , who is a farmer and lumberman of 
New Castle; William E., a civil engineer and 
deputy crown land surveyor; Charles E., the 
special subject of this sketch; Jane Elizabeth, 
and Sophia Childs, of New Castle; and E. 
Clifford, a physician practising in Melrose, 
Mass. 

Charles E. Fish received his education at 
Harkins Academy. After leaving school he 
found employment with his father in the lum- 
ber business, remaining with him until 1885. 
He then purchased a stone quarry on the Miri- 
machi River, which produces a fine quality 
of greenish olive sandstone, and which is 
mentioned in the government reports at 
Ottawa as being the largest deposit of sand- 
stone in the Maritime Provinces. It has en- 
tered into the construction of some of the 
finest buildings in Canada, among them the 
new city hall at Hamilton, Ont. ; the Lang- 
win Block and the new Departmental Build- 
ing at Ottawa; the Mclntyre residence at 
Montreal; the residence of James Ross, the 
street railway magnate, at Montreal; St. 
James Street Methodist Church, Montreal ; 
the Joyce Building, Montreal; the Post-office 
Building at Fraserville, Quebec; the post- 
office at New Castle and that at Chatham, 
N. B. ; the Roman Catholic church at Nelson; 
and St. Dunstan's Cathedral at Charlottetown, 
P. E.I., besides many others. Another of 
Mr. Fish's quarries produces a stone particu- 



larly well adapted to the grinding of wood 
pulp. Mr. Fish represented the town of New 
Castle in the County Council for two years. 
He also served ten years as Assessor. He 
was elected to the Provincial Parliament in the 
general election of 1899, and was one of the 
Aldermen to the first town Council. He is a 
member of the Masonic order, the Independent 
Order of Foresters, and the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen. 

Mr. Fish was married in 1882 to Miss 
Annie E. Willard, a daughter of Oliver Will- 
ard, of Cherryfield, Me. Mrs. Fish's mother, 
whose maiden name was Eliza Patton, was a 
descendant of an old Loyalist family who set- 
tled in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. 
Five of the seven children born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Fish are now living; namely, Iras A., 
Sada P., Mildred A., Francis W., and Ruth 
F. Cecil W. died in infancy, and Bryant at 
the age of five years. 




J DWARD BATES, a prominent contrac- 
tor and builder, St. John, was born 
in Clifton, Kings County, N.B., April 8, 
1856, son of Joseph and Julia (Neil) Bates. 
His father was a native of County Wexfiord, 
Ireland, and of English descent. He emi- 
grated in 1 85 I, and settling in Clifton, Kings 
County, N.B. , followed the occupation of a 
shipsmith for twenty-five years, and for five 
years carried the mail from Clifton to Land's 
End. His wife, whom he married in the old 
country in 1848, became the mother of seven 
children, three of whom are living, namely: 



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Catherine, who married John F. Manson, of 
New Hampshire; Edward, the subject of this 
sketch; and Julia, who is the wife of William 
Crozier, of Boston, Mass. The others were: 
Lizzie, who was the wife of Alexander Fleet; 
Joseph, who died at the age of fourteen years; 
William, who was lost at sea; and Ambrose, 
who died at the age of four. The father, who 
spent the last seventeen years of his life with 
his son, died August 14, 1898, and the 
mother died in 1881. 

At the age of fourteen Edward Bates was ap- 
prenticed for four years to E. M. Wetmore to 
learn the carpenter's trade. Having mastered 
the craft, for the next two years he worked as 
a journeyman for the late William L. Prince, 
of St. John, and at the expiration of that time 
became foreman, which position he held for 
ten years. He then established a business of 
his own. He has won a high reputation as a 
reliable builder, and now employs from 
twenty-five to thirty men. Among his exten- 
sive constructions, some of the more prominent 
are: the Union Club-house, St. John; Mac- 
Caully Brothers' building on King Street; 
the residence of Dr. W. W. White; Ploly 
Trinity Church; the Lunatic Asylum annex; 
the remodelling of Manchester, Robertson 
& Allison's store; the rectory of leather Don- 
ovan at Carleton; the residence of Dr. 
McGee; the remodelling of St. John's (stone) 
Church; and the Cliff Street Convent School. 

On May 26, 1882, Mr. Bates was united in 
marriage with Miss Matilda J. McFadden, 
daughter of the late John McP\adden, of St. 
John. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have had six chil- 



dren, four of whom are living; namely, Edna 
May, Edward Raymond, Catherine Carleton, 
and John McFadden Bates. A daughter, 
Julia Eveline, died at the age of four years 
and six months, and Hazel Rebecca died at 
fourteen months. 

Mr. Bates is a Scottish Rite Mason, and 
belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter. 



fsTfAMES RUSSELL CURRIE, princi- 
pal and proprietor of the Currie Busi- 
ness University, St. John, N. B. , is the 
son of Lauchlin Currie, Esq., builder, of 
Prince Edward Island, and was born I'ebruar}' 
6, 1862, at Montague Bridge, P.E.I. He was 
educated at the public schools of St. John, 
N.B. After completing his studies he entered 
the crockery establishment of W. H. Hay ward, 
St. John, in which he was employed for about 
nineteen years. During the greater part of 
this time he conducted an evening school for 
students in book-keeping and iDcnmanship. 
Subsec[uently business in this line increased to 
such an extent that he abandoned his other jdo- 
sition, and in 1893 founded what is now known 
as the Currie Business University. Good suc- 
cess attended his venture, and this institution 
is now known from one end of the Maritime 
Provinces to the other as being efficient in 
every branch, gi\'ing the most practical train- 
ing to its pupils. 

In religion Mr. Currie is a Baptist; in poli- 
tics a Liberal. He was married September 4, 
1892, to Annie A. Sutherland, daughter of 
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His family consists of two daughters, Audrey 
Isabel and Mabel Blanche. Mrs. Currie died 
January 25, 1899. 




ILLIAM WILKINSON, of Bush- 
ville, Chatham, N. B. , present 
Judge of the County Courts of Northumber- 
land, Gloucester, and Restigouche Counties, 
was born in Liverpool, England, February 
II, 1826. His parents, John and Catherine 
Wilkinson, are now deceased. He came to 
New Brunswick in 1840, arriving at Chat- 
ham on September 11, after a long passage of 
forty-nine days. This step was taken on the 
advice and encouragement of his half-brother, 
the late James Johnson, who had arrived in 
this country many years previously, and who 
had then lately entered into business as a mer- 
chant on his own account. He remained with 
his brother as apprentice and clerk for two 
years. Then, with the sanction and good will 
of all friends, he entered the law office of the 
late Hon. John M. Johnson, Jr., as a law stu- 
dent, and was entered as such in Michaelmas 
term, 1842. In the same term of 1847, hav- 
ing satisfactorily passed the necessary exami- 
nation as to his fitness, he was duly sworn in 
and enrolled as an attorney of the Supreme 
Court of New Brunswick, and also received his 
commission to act as Notary Public. In 
Michaelmas term, 1849, he was duly called to 
the bar. For a few years after his admission 
he practised alone; but on December 20, 1852, 
he entered into partnership with the late John 
M. Johnson, Jr., which partnership lasted up 



to the time of the death of Mr. Johnson, in 
November, 1868. During its continuance 
they were engaged in many very important 
cases, and always had the reputation of being 
very careful, successful practitioners. 

Mr. Wilkinson's first governmental office 
was that of Surrogate Judge of Probate for the 
county of Northumberland, which was resigned 
by the late Hon. Thomas H. Peters, on July 8, 
1 85 1. This Mr. Wilkinson resigned in the 
spring or summer of 1870, with the view of 
becoming a candidate for the New Brunswick 
Legislature; and it may be mentioned that dur- 
ing all the time that Mr. Wilkinson held the 
office no appeal was ever made from any deci- 
sion or judgment made by him in any cause 
before him. 

In the spring or summer of 1852 Mr. Wil- 
kinson was appointed (under the first educa- 
tional act of New Brunswick authorizing 
inspectors, passed in the previous winter) 
inspector of schools for his county, Northum- 
berland. This office he held for several years, 
until, fearing that the increasing professional 
demands on his time and attention might in- 
duce a less careful and thorough performance 
of his duties as inspector, or that the latter 
might interfere with his professional duties, 
he resigned the office into the hands of the 
government, stating these reasons. But his 
resignation was much to the regret of the then 
superintendent, Marshall D. Avary, who was 
most desirous that he should continue in office 
and become a district inspector under the new 
act then about to be passed. 

On November 8, 1S70, he was appointed, by 



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the commissioners of the Intercolonial Rail- 
way, an officer for examining and reporting 
upon the titles of lands taken for railway pur- 
poses through the county of Northumberland, 
and later, by the railway authorities, to perform 
a similar duty in regard to many unsettled and 
disputed cases in the adjoining counties of 
Gloucester and Restigouche; and at intervals 
for several years after his appointment as rail- 
way solicitor he was ajDpointed one of the 
appraisers, with one or other of the paymasters 
of the Intercolonial Railway, for the time being 
to appraise and (after the preiDaration and exe- 
cution of the proper transfer of title) pay the 
land damages for the rights of way, water 
courses, and conduits taken for railway pur- 
poses throughout all these counties. 

In the fall of 1872 he was appointed by the 
Dominion government, on the resignation of 
John G. G. Layton, Immigration Agent for 
Northumberland. This office he had held for 
a few years, when, on a change of government, 
a new policy in regard to immigration was in- 
augurated. But on the cessation of the office 
courteous and full acknowledgment was made by 
the then government of the ability and zeal 
with which the duties had been iDerformed. 

On April 2, 1873, he was appointed by the 
Dominion government one of Her Majesty's 
Counsel Learned in the Law. On March 6, 
1877, he was appointed, by the Vice-admi- 
ralty Court, Surrogate of the Vice-admiralty 
Court of New Brunswick; and on March 11, 
1881, on the resignation of Judge Williston, 
he received the appointment of Judge of the 
County Courts of Northumberland, Gloucester, 



and Restigouche. On the next day he was 
duly sworn in, and held his first county court 
at Bathurst, Gloucester County. 

On February 12, 1884, he was ex officio ap- 
pointed first commissioner under the liquor 
license act of 1883 for the several license dis- 
tricts of Northumberland, Gloucester, and Res- 
tigouche, and held the same until the decision 
of the Privy Council declared the act ultra 
vires. On October 26, 1885, he was ap- 
pointed, under sej^arate commissions, the revis- 
ing officer of the electoral districts of the 
counties of Northumberland and Restigouche 
respectively, under the electoral franchise act 
passed in 1884. 

Judge Wilkinson is a member of the Church 
of England, and for thirty years, without a 
break, he was the vestry clerk of the church 
corporation in Chatham, where he has always 
lived, and only resigned the office a few years 
ago, because of his necessarily frequent absence 
from home to fill judicial appointments. P^or 
a like period, with very rare exceptions, he has 
been a delegate to the Diocesan Church Soci- 
ety and to the Diocesan Synod at and ever 
since its formation; and on several occasions 
he has been elected by the Diocesan to the 
Provincial Synod. At the formation of the 
Diocesan he strongly espoused the necessity 
of the bishop's concurrence in all acts of the 
synod, so in the Provincial Synod he was with 
those who held and voted that the House of 
Bishops should have a veto power on all nomi- 
nations to the episcopate, both of which views, 
though not without much opposition, ulti- 
mately carried. 




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On St. James Day, 1850, Judge Wilkinson 
was married to Eliza Lovibond, only child of 
the late Rev. Samuel Bacon, D. R. (the first 
rector of Chatham, and who continued such for 
the long period of forty-seven years, dying at 
his post, February 16, 1S69), a grand-daughter 
of the celebrated sculptor, the elder John 
Bacon. 

Judge and Mrs. Wilkinson are the parents 
of six children, of whom three are now living: 
Eliza Bacon, wife of John P. Burchill, M.P.P. ; 
the Rev. William James Wilkinson, B. D., 
rector of Bay du Vin; and Mary Edith, the 
wife of William R. Butler, M.I. C.E., pro- 
fessor of mathematics and engineering at 
Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont. 



(ffltOSEPH B. HAMM, the well-known 
liveryman of St. John and a former 
member of the Board of Aldermen of 
the city, was born at Grand Bay, Kings 
County, N.B., June 8, 1830, son of Captain 
David and Sarah (Brittian) Hamm. He is 
of German origin and a descendant of Charles 
Hamm, who with his wife emigrated to 
America prior to the Revolutionary War and 
settled in Jersey City, N.J. At the breaking 
out of hostilities Charles Hamm joined the 
Royal army, and after the close of the war he 
came with other Loyalists to New Brunswick. 
Locating upon a grant of land at Grand Bay, 
near Westfield, he cleared a good farm, which 
he occupied for the rest of his life. His 
children were: Charles and Barbara, who 
were born in the States; Mathias; Andrew; 



George; Malachi; David; Julia; and Mar- 
garet. 

Captain David Hamm, sixth son of Charles, 
was a native of Grand Bay, where he followed 
general farming during his active years, and 
also ran a grist-mill. He married Sarah, 
daughter of Captain Joseph Brittian, of 
Kingston, N.B., and she became the mother 
of five children; namely, James E., Eliza- 
beth, David, Joseph B., and Mathias. Cap- 
tain Hamm's death occurred in 1882, and was 
caused by an accident while working in his 
mill. 

Joseph B. Hamm, the subject of this sketch, 
resided at the paternal homestead until he 
was twenty-four years old, when he estab- 
lished himself as a horse dealer at Indian- 
town. In 1856 he moved into the city of St. 
John, and, engaging in the livery business, 
has followed it continuously to the present 
time. He also buys and sells horses, and is 
considered a reliable dealer. 

In 1855 Mr. Hamm married for his first 
wife Barbara, daughter of Mathias Hamm, of 
Grand Bay. She died in 1875. In 1876 he 
married for his second wife Miss Annie 
Currie, daughter of William Currie, of Sun- 
bury County. Mr. Hamm is the father of 
three children by his first union, namely: 
A. G. Hamm, who is engaged with him in busi- 
ness; Ada, widow of William Dennison, late 
of Kings County; and William, who is now 
in Oregon. 

In 1876 Mr. Hamm was elected from Wel- 
lington Ward to the City Council, in which he 
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Inspector of Coal, serving in that capacity 
until the office was abolished. Elected from 
King's Ward to the Board of Aldermen in 
1895, he served in that body until the spring 
of 1899. 

'red SANDALL, Chamberlain and 
(s Treasurer of St. John, N. 13., has been 
connected with the municipal government in 
this capacity for over a score of years, and has 
proved himself a most capable and trustworthy 
public official. He was born in St. John, 
December 29, 1845, and was educated there. 
Having completed the courses in the grammar 
school, , he prepared for college, and then 
changing his plans he gave up further study, 
and for a few years was employed in a trans- 
portation, express, and shipping business as a 
clerk. 

In 1877 he was made a supernumerary clerk 
in the City Chamberlain's office, in 1879 ^^ 
was appointed clerk, and in 1880 became 
Chamberlain, a position which he has contin- 
uously filled until the present time. Under 
his able administration the office work has 
been carried on without friction, and the many 
important changes which he has made in the 
entire system have met with general approval. 

Mr. Sandall and Antoinette Duffel 1, daugh- 
ter of William Duffell, of St. John, were mar- 
ried in 1 88 1, and they have two children. He 
is a thirty-second degree Mason, and has held 
all the chairs in the Blue Lodge and Royal 
Arch chapters. He is also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, and is P. C. of his lodge. 
He is a member of the Church of England. 



T^HARLES H. PETERS, wholesale gro- 
V J[ ^^'^j S*-- John, was born in this city in 

^ ' 1862, son of Charles H. and Han- 
nah (Slip) Peters. His father was born in 
Plampstead, N. B. , in 1823, and assisted on the 
home farm until reaching his majority. He 
then went to Gagetown, where he purchased a 
tannery, which he carried on for six or seven 
years. Selling out he came to St. John, and, 
purchasing the tannery of Edward Benson, con- 
ducted it for the rest of his life. In connec- 
tion with this he engaged extensively in the 
feed business, and at the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1895, had acquired a compe- 
tency. He was a member of the Baptist 
church. His wife, Hannah, who was a daugh- 
ter of George Slip, became the mother of eight 
children; namely, Albert, William, Jr., John, 
Edwin, Frederick A., Lillie, Charles H., and 
Frank L. Albert Peters is a trunk manufac- 
turer in St. John. John is engaged in the feed 
business. Lillie married James T. Logan, 
and resides in this city, and P'rank L. is a 
tanner. The mother died in 1883. 

After completing his education in the pub- 
lic schools of St. John, Charles H. Peters 
became a clerk in the wholesale grocer}' store 
of Harding & Hatheway, remaining with them 
eight years. In 1886 he formed a partnership 
with John H. Baird, establishing what is now 
the well-known grocery house of Baird & 
Peters, and built up a large and profitable 
business. This firm continued until the death 
of Mr. Baird in 1892, since which time the 
surviving partner has carried on the business 
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In 1889 Mr. Peters was united in marriage 
with Miss Fannie L. Ellis, a native of New 
York, daughter of Thomas Ellis, now of St. 
John. 

• Mr. Peters is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. 

7TAHARLES SLOGGETT TAYLOR, 

I jy Harbor Master, St. John, was born in 
^ — ^ Weymouth, N.S., P"ebruary 21, 
1831, son of Morris Leonard and Mary Alice 
(Lee) Taylor. His grandfather, John Taylor, 
who was a native of New Jersey and a Loyal- 
ist, after serving as a Captain in the British 
army during the Revolutionary War, received 
from the government a pension and a grant of 
land in Nova Scotia, located in what is now 
the town of Weymouth. He took with him to 
Nova Scotia several slaves, and kept them till 
they died or were emancipated. He married 
Eleanor Taylor, and had five children, three 
sons and two daughters, of whom Morris L. 
was the youngest child. 

Morris Leonard Taylor was born at the 
homestead in Weymouth. The latter part of 
his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. 
He died at the age of seventy-eight years, and 
his wife, Mary Alice, lived to be eighty-five. 
They were the parents of nine children, in- 
cluding Charles S., all of whom grew to ma- 
turity. Mrs. Taylor was a daughter of Benja- 
min Lee, a Loyalist who went from Connecti- 
cut to Nova Scotia. 

Charles S. Taylor in his }'0uth was appren- 
ticed for five years to a pilot on the Bay of 
Fundy, and when his term was completed he 



entered the regular service. For twenty years 
he piloted vessels in and out of St. John with- 
out a single mishap, which, considering the 
dense fogs and the great velocity of the tides 
in this region, is a record to be proud of. hi 
1874 he was appointed Harbor Master, and he 
has filled that position with marked ability 
continually to the present time. 

In 1859 Mr. Taylor was united in marriage 
with Miss Margaret Mantell, of St. John, 
daughter of Charles Mantell, a native of Lon- 
don, England. They have had five children, 
namely: Charles E., a resident of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. ; Byron Gordon, who died October 
I, 1895; William Henry, who resides in King- 
man, Me. ; Emma L., wife of R. P. McGivern, 
formerly of this city; and Vesta Allison 
Taylor. 

Mr. Taylor and family are members of the 
Church of PZngland, and attend the Stone 
Church, as it is commonly called. In politics 
he is a Conservative. 



OSEPH BLACK BENSON, M.D., 
physician and surgeon, a leading med- 
ical practitioner of Chatham, N.B., was 
born on January 11, 1854, in the house where 
he now resides, being the fourth son of Dr. 
Stafford Benson, who settled in Chatham in 
183 I, having come from Devonshire, England, 
and who in 1835 married Sophia Elizabeth, 
daughter of Michael Samuel, Esq., lumber 
merchant of that town. His early educational 
training was received in the grammar school in 
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ericton. His professional studies were pursued 
at McGill University, Montreal; and he re- 
ceived the degree of M. D. , C. M. from that in- 
stitution in March, 1875, having received the 
prize for botany in his first 3'ear, also the final 
prize. He settled for the practice of his profes- 
sion in Chatham, and has since pursued it suc- 
cessfully. His patients have found in him not 
only professional skill, but, what is often quite 
as valuable in a physician, the sympathy which 
springs from a kindly heart. He commands 
the cordial respect of the general public, and 
also of his fellow-physicians. He is a mem- 
ber of the British Medical Association. His 
religious beliefs are voiced in the creed of the 
Church of England. The Doctor was the first 
Mayor of Chatham, elected in June, 1896. 
While holding that position, he had about one 
thousand medals struck off for presentation to 
the children of the public schools in com- 
memoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. 



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(sT|OHN WH.BUR, a venerable and highly 
respected citizen of Harvey, Albert 
County, N.B., is, passing the declining 
years of his long life free from business cares. 
A son of Samuel Wilbur, he was born Decem- 
ber 4, 1S05, in Pembroke, Me. Very little of 
his ancestral history has been recorded. It is 
known, however, that his grandfather Wilbur 
came to New Brunswicl<; from the United 
States in the latter half of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, bringing with him three sons and one 
daughter — David, Samuel, Benjamin, and 
Mary — and located first on the banks of the 



Petitcodiac River, and that he tilled the soil 
in that locality for a time, but finally removed 
to Harvey, then called Shepody, where he con- 
tinued his agricultural labors until his death. 

Samuel Wilbur was but a boy when he came 
from the United States with his father's fam- 
ily to this province. He was a lifelong agri- 
culturist, and by his sturdy industry and able 
management met with fair success in his oper- 
ations. While yet in the prime of life he set- 
tled permanently in Harvey, N. B. , where he 
died at a good old age. He was twice married ; 
and by his first wife, before marriage a Miss 
Stiles, he had eight children, none of whom 
are living. He subsequently married Rena 
Hunt, daughter of Gamaliel Hunt, of Nova 
Scotia; and of their two children John, the 
special subject of this sketch, is the only sur- 
vivor. 

John Wilbur received his education in the 
public schools of Harvey, N. B., and began his 
active career as a farmer in that town. He 
afterward followed the sea for a few years, 
being engaged principally in the coasting 
trade, although he made one voyage to the 
W^est Indies. Giving up seafaring when a 
comparatively young man, he turned his atten- 
tion to ship-building, a vocation in which he 
met with success; and he is now, as a result 
of his diligent and skilful labor, enabled to 
spend the closing days of life in comfort. 
For a number of years he served as Constable 
and as Collector of Rates. In politics he is 
an Independent. 

On March 3, 1830, Mr. Wilbur married 
Esther Brewster, daughter of Thomas Brews- 





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ter, of Harvey, N. B. She died at the age of 
sixty-four years, leaving no children. A 
warm-hearted, broad-minded, generous man, 
Mr. Wilbur takes delight in contributing 
toward worthy charitable causes, and is a liberal 
giver to the various missionary societies and 
to many benevolent institutions, including 
among others one in which he is specially in- 
terested, the Asylum for the Deaf and Blind. 
He is a Baptist in his religious belief, as was 
his wife, and greatly assists in the support of 
the church of that denomination. 




ALTER F. LEONARD, member of 
the firm of Leonard Brothers, fish 
packers and dealers, St. John, Montreal, and 
Grand River, P.O., was born in 1853, son of 
John and Caroline (Gould) Leonard. He is a 
great-grandson of George Leonard, a native of 
New York State, who joined the British army, 
served through the American Revolution, and 
became a sergeant. 

In May, 1783, George Leonard came with 
the Loyalists to New Brunswick, receiving a 
grant of land in St. John. Later he settled on 
Deer Island, where he engaged in the fishing 
industry, which he followed many years, living 
to an advanced age. He married Nancy Par- 
ker, who was also of a Loyalist family, and 
their children were: George, John, James, 
William, Silas, Rachel, Betsey, and Nancy. 
James, William, and Silas went to sea and 
never returned to New Brunswick. Mrs. 
Nancy P. Leonard after the death of her hus- 
band received a pension from the crown. 



John Leonard, grandfather of Walter F. 
Leonard, was born in St. John, and engaged in 
fishing, milling, and various other occupations. 
He married Ann Wilson, daughter of James 
Wilson, of Campobello, and they were the 
parents of nine children; namely, James, 
Sarah Ann, John, Simeon, George, Sarah Ann, 
second, Eliza, Harriet and Margaret, twins. 
Sarah Ann died at the age of four years. 
James (who was born in 18 19) and Simeon 
now reside at Deer Island. George died at 
sixty-seven years of age. Sarah Ann, second, 
is the wife of William Tinker. Eliza married 
a Mr. Welsh. Harriet married Mr. Conley, 
and Margaret became the wife of Mr. Richard- 
son. Grandmother Leonard died at sixty- 
seven years. 

John Leonard was born in Campobello, 
N. B., in April, 1823. He was in the fish 
business previous to 1869, when he came to 
St. John and became identified with the ship- 
ping interests. Some time since, he retired 
from active business. He is a member of the 
Christian Church. In 1843 he married Miss 
Caroline Gould, who was born on Deer Island, 
daughter of Frank Gould, a native of the 
LInited States. Seven children were the fruit 
of this union, and two of them are living, 
namely: John F., who was born in 185 i, and 
is associated in business with his brother; and 
Walter F. , the subject of this sketch. The 
others were: Alice, who died young; Charles 
H., who died in February, 1898, aged thirty- 
nine; George, who died in Colorado in Janu- 
ary of the same year, at the age of thirty-eight ; 
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that died in infancy. John Leonard's first 
wife died in 1859; and in 1865 he married for 
his second wife Emily Davis, daughter of 
Hubbard Davis, of Nova Scotia. 

Walter F. Leonard in company with his 
brothers, John F. and the late Charles H., es- 
tablished their present industry of curing and 
packing fish in St. John, and is now, with his 
surviving brother, conducting a large and 
profitable business, the firm having a branch in 
Montreal and one also at Grand River, P.O. 
The building in which the enterprise is carried 
on is eighty by three hundred feet, and they 
employ about thirty men. Lt their establish- 
ment in Montreal, located at 24 and 26 Found- 
ling Street, twelve men are employed, and at 
Grand River are employed fourteen men. 

Li 1880 Mr. Leonard was joined in marriage 
with Miss Sarah Hammond, daughter of John 
Hammond, of St. John. They have six chil- 
dren — Walter, John, Charles, Alice, Edna 
Vera, and George F. 




NDREW FRANCIS McAVENNEY, 
D. D. S., of St. John, was born in that 
city November 6, 1844, son of Fran- 
cis and Ellen McAvenney, both of whom were 
natives of Ireland. His preliminary studies 
in the St. John common schools were supple- 
mented with a course at St. Mary's College, 
Montreal, P.O., and he completed his classical 
education at the college of the Holy Cross, 
Worcester, Mass. His professional studies 
were pursued at the Philadelphia Dental Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, Pa., from which he grad- 



uated in 1867. His practice has been con- 
fined wholly to his native city, where he has 
long enjoyed a high reputation as a skilful 
dentist, and in point of experience he is the 
oldest practitioner in New Brunswick. He 
was the first president of the New Brunswick 
Dental Society, and is at the present time 
occupying the executive chair of the Dental 
Council. His many excellent qualities have 
gained the esteem of all who know him. 

On September 27, 1882, Dr. McAvenney 
was united in marriage with Mary E. Waters, 
daughter of the late Judge Waters, of St. John. 
Mrs. McAvenney died in 1894, leaving one 
son and two daughters. 

Politically, the Doctor is a Liberal. In 
his religious belief he is a Roman Catholic. 



(sffOHN E. WILSON, manufacturer of iron 
and copper materials for constructing 
buildings, and dealer in stoves and 
ranges, was born on Charlotte Street, St. John, 
in 1862, son of John E. and Elizabeth (Young) 
Wilson. His parents were natives of Ireland, 
and came to New Brunswick when young. 
His paternal grandfather was George Wilson, 
who resided in this country for a time; and 
his maternal grandfather, W'illiam Young, who 
emigrated about the year 1S20, kept a hotel on 
Charlotte Street, St. John, for many years, and 
died in 1883. 

John E. Wilson, the elder, turned his atten- 
tion to educational work when a young man, 
and taught school in St. John until failing 
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calling. He was a highly esteemed citizen of 
his day. He served in the militia, and be- 
longed to Albion Lodge, F. & A. M. He 
died in 1865. To him and his wife, Elizabeth, 
three children were born, namely: Elizabeth, 
wife of W. E. Case, of St. John; John E., the 
subject of this sketch; and William, who died 
in infancy. The mother died in 1867; and 
the two oriDhans, Elizabeth and John, were 
reared and educated by their maternal grand- 
IDarents. 

John E. Wilson was educated in St. John, 
and completed his studies under the instruc- 
tion of Mr. Mills. His first knowledge of the 
iron business was obtained in the employ of 
A. G. Bowes, with whom he remained some 
six or seven years, at the end of which period 
he went to the Griffith Galvanized Iron Works; 
and he later spent some time with a copper- 
smith. In 1885 he established himself in 
business on Union Street, and in 1890 removed 
to his present quarters on Sidney Street, where 
he carries a full line of stoves, ranges, and 
copper materials. He employs thirty-three 
men, and is the most extensive handler of gal- 
vanized iron for building in the Maritime Prov- 
inces. 

In October, 1883, Mr. Wilson was joined in 
marriage with Beatrice Orr, a native of St. 
John and a daughter of James Orr, who was 
also born in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson 
have had five children, namely: John Harold; 
Clara Young; Alice Beatrice; Mildred; and 
Walter, who died at the age of one year. 

Mr. Wilson represented Wellington Ward 
in the Common Council for two years, leading 



the poll in every ward in the city, the second 
year elected by acclamation, and declined to 
accept a third election on account of business 
pressure. He belongs to Albion Lodge, I". 
& A. M. ; Log Cabin Court, Order of For- 
esters; the Knights of Pythias; the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen; and the Natural 
History Society. 



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LLIAM HENRY BOWMAN, of 
the firm of Bowman & Le Lacheur, 
contractors and builders, St. John, was born 
on Germain Street, August 2, 1832, son of 
John and Elizabeth (McCoullough) Bowman. 
John Bowman, who was a native of Devon- 
shire, England, emigrated when a young man, 
and, settling in St. John, was employed for 
some time in driving the mail between St. 
John and Fredericton. His wife, Elizabeth, 
who was a daughter of John R. McCoullough, 
a soldier in the British army, was born in 1797 
in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. They 
were the parents of four children: Mary, wife 
of John Rankin, of St. John; Elizabeth, who 
married George Lawson, and died in Califor- 
nia; John Richard, now a resident of Minne- 
apolis, Minn., where he settled in 1857; and 
William Henry, the subject of this sketch. 
John Bowman died in 1833, and Mrs. Eliza- 
beth M. Bowman died in 1892. 

William Henry Bowman was educated in 
St. John. When sixteen years old he began 
an apprenticeship to the carpenter's and house 
joiner's trade, with John Rankin, present Dep- 
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five years, after which he worked as a journey- 
man for a similar laeriod. He then went to 
Chicago, where he remained, however, but six 
months. Returning to St. John in 1858, he 
formed his present partnership with Mr. 
Le Lacheur, and they have since conducted a 
prosperous business, being now the oldest firm 
in their line in St. John. Among the many 
buildings erected by them may be mentioned 
the Wiggin Orphan Aslyum (the one that 
stood before the fire of 1877, as well as the 
one which they erected afterward to take the 
place of the first destroyed in that catastro- 
phe) ; the residence of Dr. Holden ; the build- 
ing of T. McAvity & Sons' Brass Foundry, 
and the Lawton Saw Factory. 

Mr. Bowman was married August, 1862, to 
Miss Jane Spears, a native of St. John, and 
daughter of John Spears, a branch pilot of the 
port of St. John. He has two children : Ger- 
trude, wife of C. A. P""isher; and William H., 
a resident of Boston, Mass. Mr. Bowman 
was for thirty-five years a member of the Fire 
Department of the city, and for fourteen years 
was its captain. He also represented the city 
of Portland in the Council. 



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fffffOHN W. KEAST, merchant and ship- 
owner, .St. John, was born in Studholm, 
Kings County, N.B., January lo, 1853, 

son of Robert and IClcanor (Keirstead) Keast. 

His paternal grandparents were Robert and 

Ann (Harris) Keast, of England. 

Robert Keast, second, the father, who was 

born in Cornwall, h.ngland, in 1 8 1 8, was a 



miner in the old country. Coming to New 
Brunswick in 1843, he settled in Studholm, 
and then cleared a farm. In 1S58 he moved 
to Queens County, where for a number of-years 
he continued to follow agriculture, and is now 
living in retirement. His wife, Eleanor, is a 
native of Kings County, and a daughter of 
John B. Keirstead. Her grandfather came 
from New York to New Brunswick with the 
Loyalists in 1783. She has had fifteen chil- 
dren, si.x of whom are living; namely, Robert, 
George, John W. , Albert E. , Cornelius, and 
Hettie M. Robert Keast, third, lives in 
Lowell, Mass. ; George lives in Auburn, Me. ; 
Albert E. is a resident of Alberta, N.W.T. ; 
Cornelius occupies the old homestead in 
Queens County; and Hettie M. is the princi- 
pal of a school at Red Deer, Alberta. The 
parents are members of the Baptist church. 

John W. Keast assisted on the home farm 
until he was twenty years old, when he went to 
sea, and in three years became master of a 
small vessel. He later commanded the three- 
masted schooner "Eva Maud," of which he 
was part owner, and for thirteen years made 
voyages between the West Indies, Newfound- 
land, and other places. In 1888, on account 
of the ill-health of his wife, he abandoned the 
sea, and while still retaining his shipping in- 
terests, engaged in mercantile business, build- 
ing up a prosperous trade. He is a self-made 
man, and by his industry and perseverance has 
accumulated a competency. 

Mr. Keast has been twice married. His 
first wife, whom he wedded in 1881, was Miss 
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and a daughter of the late James Springer. 
She died in 1891, having been the mother of 
ii\'e children. Three of these are living; 
namely, Ethel, John H., and Robert J. In 
1892 he married for his second wife Miss 
Abbie I. Robertson, daughter of John Robert- 
son, of Wickham, Queens County. Of this 
union have been born two children — Jennie 
and Abbie. Miss Ethel Keast is engaged with 
her aunt in teaching in the north-west. 

Mr. Keast is a member of the Independent 
Order of Eoresters, the Temple Honor, and 
the Ancient Order of Foresters, and is a Royal 
Forester. He belongs to the Loyal Orange 
Association, of St. John. In 1899 he was 
elected Alderman-at-lai-ge for the city of St. 
John, N.B. 

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^AMES BROWN, general merchant of 
Newcastle, Miramichi, was born in 
Portsoy, Banffshire, Scotland, on Feb- 
ruary 28, 1845, being a son of James and Janet 
(Taylor) IBrown. His father was a grain mer- 
chant. He served an apprenticeship in his 
native town in a ship-chandlery establishment 
kept by William McRobbie, Esq. In 1864, 
at the age of nineteen, he emigrated to New 
Brunswick, locating in Newcastle, where he 
worked as clerk for a local merchant for some 
six years. In 1870 he established his present 
business, which he has successfully conducted 
for thirty years, being now one of the 
oldest merchants in the town. He has also 
taken some part in juiblic affairs, having 
served for two years as a member of the 
County Council, one year as County War- 



den. He was at one time a member of the 
Newcastle Rifle Company, and also belonged 
to the Newcastle Field Battery of Artillery. 
He is an adherent of the Presbyterian church, 
and a Free Mason. In politics he is a Liberal. 




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HE COLL BROTHERS, JAMES and 
MICHAEL, soap manufacturers, are 
well-known and successful business men of St. 
John. Their parents, Dennis and Jane 
(Griffith) Coll, with two children, emigrated 
from County Tyrone, Ireland, their native 
place, and settled in St. John in 1842. Den- 
nis Coll had been foreman in a soap and candle 
factory prior to coming to New Brunswick, and 
here he set about establishing one for himself. 
His factory, being equipped with the necessary 
machinery and provided with a force of expert 
workmen, was opened for business in the follow- 
ing year, and was the first soap factory started 
in St. John. When candles were superseded 
by improx'ed methods of illumination he gave 
his entire attention to the production of soap, 
which he carried on successfully for the rest of 
his life, and was succeeded in business by his 
sons. He died February 22, 1873, aged 
seventy years. He was the father of eight 
children; namely, Bridget, Ann, Jane, Mary, 
John, James, Michael, and Dennis. Bridget 
is the widow of John Carlyn, late of St. John. 
Ann is residing in Minneapolis, Minn. Jane, 
who also resides in that city, is the wife of 
K. McPeak. Mary is no longer living. The 
sons are all residents of St. John. The mother 
died in April, 1884, aged se\'enty-nine years. 



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The parents attended St. Peter's (Roman Cath- 
olic) Church. 

James Coll, who was born in St. John in 
1842, acquired his education in the common 
schools. After the completion of his studies 
he entered the employ of Doherty & McTavish, 
with whom he remained as a clerk for nine 
years. He then became associated with his 
father; and a few years later, with his brother 
Michael, succeeded to the business as before 
mentioned. In June, 1872, he married Au- 
gusta Doherty, daughter of Owen Doherty, the 
latter a native of Ireland. They have had six 
children, of whom two are living — Owen 
Griffin and Edward Blake Coll. When a youth 
Mr. James Coll took a lively interest in ama- 
teur theatricals, and belonged to a Thespian 
organization known as the St. John Dramatic 
Club. 

Michael Coll was born in St. John in i S44. 
After finishing his education he became book- 
keeper for ri. and H. A. McCullough. In 
1868 he entered the employ of his father, with 
whom he remained until the former's death. 
The present firm was then organized, and is 
now carrying on the largest soap manufactory 
in the city. 

On January i, 1874, Mr. Michael Coll mar- 
ried Margaret JosejDhine Delaney, daughter of 
Morris and Margaret Delaney, who came from 
Wexford, Ireland. Of this union there are 
nine children; namely, Anna, Frank, Louis, 
Morris, Margaret, Mary, Geraldine, Winni- 
fred, and Isadore. Anna died at the age of 
fifteen. Frank is a student in Montreal. For 
sixteen years Mr. Michael Coll has been a 



member of the School Board, serving upon the 
Committee on Valuation; and he is a Justice 
of the Peace. He takes a great interest in 
charitable and benevolent objects, and was for- 
merly president of the St. Vincent de Paul 
Society of Portland. 



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ILLIAM F. GEORGE, who owns 
and occupies one of the best 
equipped and most valuable farming estates 
in Sackville, N.B., is recognized as one of 
the foremost agriculturists of Westmoreland 
County. He was born in Sackville, April 12, 
1832, son of James and Elizabeth (Fawcett) 
George. 

Peter George, his paternal grandfather, who 
was born and reared in Scotland, was for sev- 
eral years a soldier in the British army. Em- 
igrating to America, he located on the St. 
John River in New Brunswick, where he fol- 
lowed farming and lumbering for a number of 
years. During his later days he received a 
pension from the British government. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Anderson, was 
a widow when he married her. They became 
the parents of four children, of whom James 
was the youngest. Deciding at length to re- 
move to Ontario, Peter George and his wife 
embarked with their household goods, and 
were both drowned and their effects lost. 

James George was born at a settlement on 
the St. John River, which he left when a lad 
of twelve years to come to Sackville, where he 
found a position as chore boy on the farm of 
John Fawcett, whose cousin, William Faw- 




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cett, a number of years later became his 
father-in-law. After his marriage with Eliz- 
abeth Fawcett he assumed the entire charge 
of the Fawcett farm. By dint of unceasing 
toil and good management he added materially 
to its improvements, and before his death, in 
1882, at the age of seventy-nine years, he had 
accumulated a fine property. His widow, 
who was born on this farm, October 24, 18 10, 
still resides on it, making her home with her 
son, Charles W. George, of whom a sketch 
appears on another page of this work. She is 
a member of the Methodist church, to which 
her husband also belonged, he having been 
very active in denominational affairs and for 
many years a trustee of the church property. 
They reared five children — William F., 
Sarah A., Charles VV., Lizzie, and Emma J. 
Sarah A. is the widow of George F. Black, 
late of Dorchester, N.B., and has three chil- 
dren living, namely: Hattie, who is the wife 
of Clayton Dickey, of Shediac, N.B., and has 
one child, Nina; Charles, who married Mar- 
garet Etter; and Isabella, wife of Thomas 
Cochran, of Dorchester, and mother of two 
children — William Alexander and Gretta. 
Lizzie is the wife of the Rev. Silas James, of 
Hillsboro, N. B., and has three children — ■ 
Frederick S., Edna L. , and Ella W. Emma 
J. is unmarried. 

William F. George was educated at Mount 
Allison Academy in Sackville, and under the 
instruction of his father received an excellent 
training in agricultural pursuits. When he 
was ready to establish himself in life, his 
father gave him a farm, on which he has since 



followed the independent occupation to which 
he was reared. He has added to its area by 
purchase of other land, and is now the pos- 
sessor of nine hundred acres, seventy acres 
of which is upland, on which he resides, 
six hundred and fifty acres woodland, and 
two hundred and twenty-five acres marsh- 
land. He makes a specialty of cutting 
hay, and deals extensively in this product, 
selling to foreign markets. He has also been 
very extensively engaged in raising stock. A 
man of excellent business ability, progressive 
and enterprising, Mr. George is also actively 
interested in industries outside of his own 
town and province, being a shareholder in the 
Acadia Coal & Coke Company of Ohio, and 
in the Cotton Gin Company of New York and 
stockholder in the New Brunswick Oil Com- 
pany and other industries. Politically, he is 
a liberal, and he is an energetic worker in 
local affairs. In 1891 he was a candidate for 
the House of Commons in the Dominion 
election, for a score of years he was a Com- 
missioner for the Parish of Sackville Civil 
Court, and for the last thirty-five years he 
has served as Justice of the Peace. 

Mr. George and Mary A. Trenholm, daugh- 
ter of George Trenholm, of Fort Lawrence, 
N.S., were married on January 22, 1S56, and 
they have four children; namely, Fletcher, 
Bessie Jane, Arthur N., and Frederick W. 
Fletcher, born December 22, 1857, married 
Alma (now deceased), daughter of George 
Black, of Dorchester, N. B. Bessie Jane mar- 
ried first Alfred Eaton, of Cornwallis, N.S., 
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Paulina S., William G., Leander, and Blake. 
She married second her first husband's 
brother, Charles Eaton, by whom she has two 
children — Hugh H. and C. Louise. Arthur 
N., born February 22, 1864, married Annie, 
daughter of James Wheaton, of Sackville, and 
has four children — Lena Hazel, James Rus- 
sell, Ralph, and Bessie Louise. Frederick 
W. was born April 20, 1872. Mr. George is 
trustee and steward of the Methodist Church 
of Sackville, of which he and his wife have 
been members for thirty-five years. 



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HOMAS BARLOW, son of Thomas, Sr., 
el| was born in St. John. Having served 
an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, he 
followed it until establishing what is now 
known as the Phoenix Foundry, in which he 
was the pattern-maker, and he had as associ- 
ates James Fleming and William Stewart. 
Selling his interest in that enterprise some 
years later, he spent the rest of his life in 
retirement, and died in 1864. He was one of 
the organizers of the Mechanics Institute, and 
a member of the Sons of Temperance. Li his 
religious belief he was a Methodist, and be- 
longed to the Germain Street Church. 

Thomas Barlow married Charlotte, daughter 
of James Goodwin, whose birth took place in a 
house on Nelson Street in St. John. She be- 
came the mother of si.x children; namely, 
Thomas, Martha, lulwin William, George, 
Sophia Jane, and Charles. Thomas Barlow, 
third, who was a carpenter, died in 1S80, and 
his widow, whose maiden name was Mary 



Bowyer, survives him. Martha Barlow mar- 
ried Harris Wright, and is now residing in 
Dorchester, Mass. George Barlow, who was a 
mechanic, died about the year 1870. Sophia 
Jane is the widow of Dr. Archibald Maxwell, 
late of Pictou, N. S., and resides at Bear River 
in that Province. Charles died at the age of 
five years. Mrs. Charlotte Barlow is now 
eighty-nine years old, and is unusually bright 
and active for one of her years. 

Edwin William Barlow was born on April 
18, 1837, in the house on Coburg Street, where 
he now resides. Having completed his educa- 
tion at the Sunbury Grammar School, he 
served an apprenticeship of five years at the 
carpenter's trade, and after working as a jour- 
neyman for some time he formed a partnership 
with Charles W. Frost, under the firm name 
of Frost & Barlow. That concern, whose shop 
was located upon the site of the present elec- 
tric light works, turned their attention to the 
building of ship cabins. Messrs. Frost and 
Barlow were together six years, at the end of 
which time Mr. Frost died. The surviving 
partner has continued in business alone ever 
since. Edwin William Barlow was united in 
marriage on June 26, 1S63, by the Rev. S. B. 
.Smith, with Elizabeth Jane Frost, daughter 
of Robert Chillis Frost. Her father was born 
in St. John, and her mother, whose maiden 
name was also Frost, was a native of Kings 
County. Mrs. Barlow is a descendant of Rob- 
ert Chillis, a Scotchman and a Loyalist, who 
served as Captain in the Britisii army during 
the American Revolution. She has in her 
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Kirk, and also a mahogany table made by 
Robert Chillis, who brought it to this country. 
Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have had three children; 
namely, Charles W. , D. D. S., Arthur, and 
Julia Mabel. Arthur died at the age of three 
years. Charles W. Barlow graduated in 1894 
from the American Dental College, now con- 
nected with the Chicago University, and is 
practising his profession in Providence, R.I. 

Mr. Barlow belongs to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Fire Department since 1861, and is 
a trustee of the Fireman's Relief Association. 
He assisted in entertaining H. R. H., the 
Prince of Wales, during his visit to St. John. 



^AMES GAYNOR, block-maker, St. 
John, son of John Beach and Sarah J. 
(Gill) Gaynor, was born on March 24, 
1833, in the house where he now resides. 

His great-grandfather, Peter Gaynor, who 
was born in Ireland, went to Scotland, and 
subsequently emigrated to America, settling 
in Rhode Island previous to the Revolution- 
ary War. He was a block-maker by trade, and 
followed that occupation in Newport. In May, 
1783, he came to St. John with the Loyalists, 
and followed his trade on York Point. He 
was a member of the Church of England. He 
married, in Ireland, Bridget Ford, a native of 
that country, who was a Catholic in her relig- 
ious belief. He died when about fifty years 
old, and his wife lived to the advanced age of 
ninety-nine years. 

Their son James, grandfather of the subject 



of this sketch, was born in Ireland. Joining 
the British navy, he remained in the service 
for some time, and about the year 1790 settled 
in St. John, where for the rest of his life he 
followed his trade of a block-maker, which he 
had learned of his father. He died in 182 1, 
at the age of seventy years. His wife, Anna 
Seely, a native of Connecticut, was the daugh- 
ter of Seth Seely, a stanch Loyalist. She 
died at the age of fifty-six. Their children 
were: William, Joseph, John Beach, Alexan- 
der, Catherine, and Ann. 

John Beach Gaynor, son of the first James 
and father of the subject of this sketch, was 
born at York Point, September 23, 1797, and 
was brought up in St. John. Learning his 
father's trade, he continued working with him, 
and after his father's death he succeeded to the 
business, which was a prosperous one. He 
was frequently at work upon as many as ten 
vessels at the same time. In 1823 he married 
Sarah J. Gill, a native of St. Mary's, and 
daughter of Thomas Gill, who came here from 
Pennsylvania. Her father served during the 
American Revolution on the British side, first 
as Sergeant, being later promoted. John B. 
and Sarah J. (Gill) Gaynor were the parents 
of six children, namely: Margaret, John 
Beach, Thomas Gill, Samuel, all of whom 
died young; Eliza, who married Thomas C. 
Humbert, of St. John ; and James, the subject 
of this sketch. 

James Gaynor was educated at the Sack\'ille 
Academy. Upon leaving school he learned 
the block-maker's trade, being the fourth rep- 
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follow that occupation. He contimied in the 
business until modern improvements made it 
unprofitable. 

On October 28, i8go, Mr. Gaynor married 
Emma Caroline Fowler, daughter of Noah 
Fowler, and grand-daughter of Henry Fowler, 
a prominent Loyalist. 




•RCHIBALD FITZ RANDOLPH, one 
of the leading citizens of Fredericton, 
N.B. , is prominently identified with 
its financial, mercantile, and manufacturing 
interests. He was born July 24, 1833, at 
Digby, N. S., a son of James H. Fitz Ran- 
dolph and a grandson of Joseph Fitz Ran- 
dolph. 

The grandfather emigrated with the Loyal- 
ists to Nova Scotia, and subsequently became 
one of the foremost citizens of Digby County, 
and for several years was a member of the 
Legislative Council of Nova Scotia. He 
owned a large tract of land, called "Belle 
Farm," at Bridgetown, where he carried on 
general farming until his death, at the age of 
threescore and ten years. In religion he was a 
Quaker or Friend. He reared four sons and 
one daughter, none of whom are now living. 

James H. Fitz Randolph was born in Digby, 
N.S., and during his active life was an exten- 
sive dealer in dry goods. He served in public 
ofifice many years, having been the senior Jus- 
tice of the Peace, and, as such, presiding head 
of the Board of Sessions. Departing from the 
Quaker faith in which he was brought up, he 
became a devoLit member of the Church of 



England. He died at the age of forty-seven 
years. He married Susan B. , daughter of 
Major Thomas Menzies, of Lancaster, N.B., 
the representative of an old family from the 
south of Perthshire, Scotland, and at one time 
an officer in the British army. Major Menzies 
was a friend of Major Andre; and his grand- 
son, who owns Rose Hall, the house which 
Benedict Arnold formerly occupied, has a pis- 
tol that once belonged to that ill-fated officer. 
Nine children were born to James H. Fitz 
Randolph and his wife, Archibald Pltz being 
the third child. One son is a resident of 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; and one daughter, Mrs. 
McCallum, is living in Yarmouth, N. S. The 
mother died at the age of seventy-three years. 
Archibald F. Randolph was educated in the 
Digby Grammar School, and at the age of six- 
teen years began to be self-supporting. For 
three years thereafter he was a clerk in the 
hardware store of Mr. E. Stephens, in St. 
John, and the ensuing two years he was clerk 
and book-keeper for A. T. Coburn, a Frederic- 
ton merchant. In 1855 he opened a store for 
the retail sale of hardware, dry goods, grocer- 
ies, and other merchandise, and, commencing 
on a small scale, he continued a successful 
business in these lines for ten years. In 1865 
he established a wholesale grocery in Mr. 
Hodges's building, which he occupied until the 
completion of his present commodious store, 
in 1878. This building, sixty by sixty feet, 
with four floors and a basement, and also three 
storehouses, he uses in connection with his 
extensive trade in \\'est India goods, flour, and 
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other business enterprises. In 1S70, in com- 
pany with Mr. Baker, under the firm name of 
Randolph & Baker, he established a saw-mill 
for the manufacture of deals and short lumber, 
and also lime-kilns at*Randolph, a suburb 
which was named in his honor. In these two 
industries, which he has built up from the 
foundation, one hundred and sixty men are 
employed, and on an average twenty million 
feet of lumber are manufactured, and sixty 
thousand barrels of lime produced annually. 

Mr. Randolph has been the only president of 
the People's Bank of Fredericton. This bank 
was incorporated in 1864, with a capital of 
sixty thousand dollars, which has since been 
increased to three hundred and thirty thousand 
dollars, while the value of the stock in the 
meantime has advanced from fifty dollars per 
share to two hundred and seventy-five dollars. 
Mr. Randolph is a director of the Fredericton 
Electric Light and Gas Company, and is pres- 
ident of the Keystone Insurance Company, of 
St. John, N. B. Since 1875 he has been pres- 
ident of the Fredericton Boom Company, a 
corporation employing five hundred men and 
doing an immense business, the receipts for 
the year 1898, up to August i, being one hun- 
dred and thirty thousand dollars. He is Lib- 
eral in politics and a firm supporter of the 
present Dominion government, but is not 
active in public matters. He was apjDointed 
for life, in 18S3, to the Legislative Council, 
but subsequently resigned that position. He 
served as chairman of the local School Board 
from 1872 until 1896, when he went to Cali- 
fornia. For thirty years he has been a mem- 



ber of the Baptist church, in which he has 
served as Deacon a quarter of a century. In 
1883 Mr. Randolph admitted one of his sons 
into partnership, and in 1892 another son was 
made a member of the firm, the name of which 
has been changed from A. F. Randolph to 
A. F. Randolph & Sons. 

Mr. Randolph and Amira Donaldson, 
daughter of William Turnbull, of Bear River 
now Bridgeport, N.S., were married in 1858, 
and they have had eight children, of whom five 
are living. 



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C. JOHN DUNN, the well-known 
architect of St. John, was born there 
in 1837, the eldest son of John and 
Martha (Gould) Dunn. On the paternal side 
he is of Irish ancestry, his father having been 
born in Derry, Ireland, in 1804. 

John Dunn, a lad of twelve years, in 181 8, 
after the death of his father, came to America, 
following the footsteps of his brother James, 
and settled in St. John. At a later date their 
widowed mother arrived. John Dunn learned 
the cabinet-maker's trade, and subsequently 
became a manufacturer of lumber. For this 
purpose he erected a mill, in which he had the 
first planing-mill at St. John, and also im- 
ported large quantities of mahogany. Retir- 
ing from this business in 1854, he bought a 
farm in Musquash, which he cultivated until 
his death. His wife, the mother of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, was of English parentage, 
her father, Charles Gould, having come from 
Somersetshire, England, with his family. 
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five. He was for many years a member of the 
Municipal Council. His surviving children 
are as follows : Mrs. S. J. Parkin; R. C. John 
Dunn; J. J. Dunn, of California; Albert T., 
Surveyor-general of New Brunswick and Rep- 
resentative for the county of St. John in the 
Legislature; Thomas A. W. ; Frederick B. , of 
Musquash; and Eleanor T. , the wife of C. 
Clinch. 

Mr. R. C. John Dunn began the study of 
architecture when a boy with George N. Smith, 
and later acquired a fuller knowledge of its 
practical details. For the sake of more ex- 
tended observation he went abroad, visiting 
the celebrated buildings of various European 
countries, and widely increasing his knowl- 
edge of existing architectural monuments. 
Upon his return he took a course of study in 
Boston, and subsequently he worked in various 
parts of the United States, spending consider- 
able time in Chicago. In 1875 he returned to 
his native city, where he opened an office, and 
has since been most successfully engaged in 
professional work. He has superintended the 
erection of many of the important buildings 
since erected in the province. 

Mr. Dunn was made a Mason in the Charles 
W. Moore Lodge at Fitchburg, Mass., in 
1866. He was one of the first members of the 
Knights of Pythias in St. John. 



-OHN GILCHRIST, M.D., a well- 
known physician of .St. John, was born 
in that part of the parish of Prince 
William, now Dumfries, York County, N. B. , 



January 5, 1832, son of James and Mary 
(Yerxa) Gilchrist. His father was born in 
Perthshire, Scotland, in 1783. 

James Gilchrist was in the British service at 
Halifax, N. S., during the War of 18 12, and 
had charge of the American prisoners on board 
of the "Chesapeake." After the exchange of 
prisoners he came to New Brunswick, where 
he served as School -master's Sergeant in the 
New Brunswick corps, and taught school in 
Prince William, Kingclear, and Southampton 
until a short time prior to his death, which 
occurred April 30, 1849. He was also en- 
gaged in farming. Politically, he was a Tory, 
and held several offices, including that of Pub- 
lic Land Surveyor. He was reared a Presby- 
terian, but after his marriage he joined the 
Church of England, and his children were bap- 
tized in that faith. He belonged to the Ma- 
sonic Order. 

His wife, Mary, whom he married in 1820, 
was a daughter of John and P'rances (Gerow) 
Yerxa, who came from Queens County, Long 
Island, N. Y. , with the Loyalists in 1783. 
While proceeding up the St. John River they 
were compelled, by the severity of the weather, 
to remain within the .shelter of a camp until 
the following spring, when they continued 
their journey to the mouth of the Keswick 
River, where they settled upon a large grant of 
land. The Gerows were of P^rench origin, 
being descendants of an old Huguenot family. 
John Yerxa became a prosperous farmer. He 
reared a famil}' of sixteen children, four of 
whom were born on Long Island, and among the 
latter were the late Major Yerxa and the late 




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Mrs. John Brewer of York County. All lived 
to a good old age, and the second death in the 
family was that of a daughter who was forty- 
five years old. James and Mary Y. Gilchrist 
were the parents of two children — John, the 
subject of this sketch, and David. The mother 
died in 1S55, aged seventy-two years. 

John Gilchrist in his boyhood and youth 
attended the common and Normal schools, and 
studied Latin and physics under a private 
tutor. He began the study of medicine under 
Drs. Swan and Holmes, of Calais, Me., subse- 
quently pursued a course at the Maine Medi- 
cal School, and completed his preparatory 
studies at the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, New York. He began to practice in 
1857 in the western part of New Brunswick, 
and from 1S58 to 1867 he resided in Sheffield, 
Sunbury County, his field of operation extend- 
ing into Queens and Kent counties. In 1868 
he settled in Portland, which is now a part of 
St. John, and for many years has been re- 
garded as one of the most able physicians of 
the city 

Dr. Gilchrist owns a fine stock farm in 
Kings County, and has devoted much attention 
to raising cattle and horses, being the largest 
breeder of Jersey cows in the Maritime Prov- 
inces, and the only stockman in New Bruns- 
wick to make a specialty of raising thorough- 
bred running horses. He is quite active in 
political affairs, having contested Kings 
County for a seat in the Provincial Assembly 
in 1892, running against the present Attorney 
General. He is chairman of the Conservative 
organization in Landsdowne Ward, and a mem- 



ber of the Executive Committee. In cam- 
paigning he is said to be a master of invective 
and sarcasm. 

In August, 1859, Dr. Gilchrist married 
Miss Elizabeth Brewer, of Robbinston, Me. 
She is a daughter of the late William Brewer, 
and a niece of John M. Brewer, the well-known 
ship-builder; and is related to several promi- 
nent families in the St. Croix valley. She is 
descended from the family of an old English 
admiral who was stationed between Halifax 
and the West Indies before the American Rev- 
olution. Dr. and Mrs. Gilchrist have four 
children, namely: Helen, wife of Henry 
Thomas, of Montreal; Maud, wife of Joseph 
Henderson, of Nova Scotia; John B. Gilchrist, 
M. D. , a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medi- 
cal College, now practising in Greenwich, 
Kings County; and James, who is now manag- 
ing his father's farm. 

The Doctor belongs to the Royal Arcanum, 
for which he was formerly medical examiner; 
and he is now serving in that capacity for the 
Temperance and General Life Assurance Com- 
pany of North America. 




LBRIDGE GERRY DUNN, retired 
lumber manufacturer, St. John, has 
been identified with the business interests of 
New Brunswick since 1852. He is a native 
of Maine, having been born in Mount Vernon, 
Kennebec County, that State, in 18 12. His 
fiarents were Peter and Dorothy (Bartlett) 
Dunn. His paternal ancestors originally came 
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fought for the American colonies in the Revo- 
lution, as did also his grandfather, Christopher. 
Christopher Dunn saw service in the campaign 
that resulted in the capture of Burgoyne and 
in the battles of the Lakes. On his maternal 
side, also, Mr. Dunn comes of Revolutionary 
stock. His mother's father, Thomas Bartlett, 
was at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; 
and her uncle, Josiah Bartlett, was one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. Dunn spent his boyhood on the farm, 
and obtained his education in the public 
schools. In April, 1833, he came to New 
Brunswick, locating in Fredericton, where for 
the next nine years he worked at carpentering 
with his brother. He then went to Aroos- 
took, Me., which was at that time a compara- 
tively unbroken country. Clearing a tract of 
land, he opened up a farm and proved that the 
soil was productive by reaping a goodly har- 
vest. But he saw from the first that the forests 
of Aroostook would yield gold to the wood- 
cutter, and he set about developing the lumber 
industry. He was one of the first men there to 
engage in that line of business, and he contin- 
ued it most successfully until 1870. He pur- 
cTiased large tracts of timber land, and employed 
many men to cut it off. In addition to this, 
he kept on with his farming, and in time 
cleared a valuable estate. In 1870 he removed 
to St. John and bought a saw-mill, and since 
that time has been operating it most prosper- 
ously. 

In 1S92 the old mill was abandoned, and a 
new one was built about six miles up the river. 
This is now conducted l^y his sons. Mr. Dunn 



is a self-made man. By his own energy and 
effort he has acquired a handsome property, 
and this yields him an assured income. He 
has always been attentive to the duties of citi- 
zenship; and, while a resident of Maine, he 
was a member of Governor Coney's Council. 
He attends the Unitarian church. 

Mr. Dunn married in 1845 Louisa M. 
Brackett, who was born in Albion, Me., 
daughter of Joseph Brackett. Mrs. Dunn died 
in September, 1896, leaving four children — 
Caroline Shaw, George Bancroft, Mary, and 
Elbridge Gerry, Jr. Caroline Shaw, who died 
in 1S97, was the wife of Nathaniel M. Jewett, 
of Boston. George Bancroft Dunn resides in 
Aroostook, Me. Mary is the wife of E. J. 
Johnson, of Boston, Mass. Elbridge Gerr}' 
Dunn, Jr., resides on the old homestead in 
Aroostook. 



OHN BEBBINGTON, Sr., of Freder- 
icton, one of the most successful 
gardeners and florists in this section, 
was born in Cheshire, England. His father 
was a farmer; but John at seventeen years of 
age, having a natural taste for gardening, left 
home and made his way to Messrs. Laing's 
nursery at Twickenham, County of Middlesex, 
near London, in which he found employment. 
He subsequently worked successively for Lord 
J. Chicester, under head gardener Peel, 
at Kinghorn's nursery, Richmond, and Wal- 
ford, Esq., East Shean, and from thence 
went to Reeves Brothers' nursery. Netting" 
Hill, London, Messrs. Reeves being at that 
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Garden market. Mr. Bebbington next entered 
the employ of Carter & Co. Messrs. Carter 
were called the royal seedsmen. Their nursery 
and trial grounds were at Sydenham, Crystal 
Palace nursery. 

In the spring of the year 1870 Mr. J. W. 
Brayley, then of Fredericton, N.B., but later 
of Montreal, had a fine collection of stove and 
greenhouse plants, also a grapery, lawn, and 
vegetable garden. He wished to procure a 
single man well up in plant cultivation, and 
Messrs. Carter & Co. recommended Mr. 
Bebbington. He was sent accordingly in that 
year to Fredericton to take charge of Mr. 
Brayley's place. There was a Provincial 
E.xhibition that year in October, in which Mr. 
Brayley received seventeen first and second 
prizes for collection of plants and cut flowers, 
also the first for hothouse grapes, in competi- 
tion with the late Governor Wilmot, Daniel 
Kenney, Judge Stevens, and other noted horti- 
culturists of that day. After one year's service 
with Mr. Brayley, Mr. Bebbington found his 
way to the niu'sery of Messrs. Hovey & Co. 
in Cambridge, at that time forty acres in 
extent, with some seventeen greenhouses. 
Mr. Bebbington took charge of the tropical 
department, orchids, camellias, and azaleas, 
with a rose house, and grew all the specimen 
plants. He arranged them for exhibition 
with the result of many first prizes at Horti- 
cultural Hall that year. It may be mentioned 
that the pear crop on the Hovey place that 
season sold for two thousand dollars. Mr. 
Bebbington remained two years with Messrs. 
Hovey, and then engaged as propagator with 



Strong, Goodwin & Spooner at Brighton, 
now Elliot. After some time he accepted an 
offer from the late Mr. J. A. Morrison, of 
Fredericton, to superintend the building of 
greenhouses and laying out of his grounds. 

Upwards of three years later Mr. Bebbing- 
ton bought two lots of land, on which he built 
in 1876 a dwelling-house and a lean-to 
greenhouse, and engaged to fill in all his spare 
time with G. E. Fenety, Esq., Queen's 
printer, who had several greenhouses, a 
grapery, and the finest residence and grounds 
in the Province. Mr. Bebbington also had 
a kind of supervision over the late H. G. 
Ketchim's place, also the late Judge Fisher's, 
and he furnished and planted Alex Gibson's 
flower gardens at Marysville. 

From this small beginning his business has 
grown so that he now has five greenhouses and 
a freehcld of five lots of land, besides rentinef 
one acre for growing celery, onions, lettuce, 
etc. For his local trade he gives his attention 
chiefly to roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, 
smila.x, and bulbous roots, importing each 
year from Holland many thousand tulips, hya- 
cinths, narcissus, lilies, etc. In 1878 Mr. 
Bebbington found, after getting established, 
that he had a surplus stock, and purposed try- 
ing his luck in St. John with the first baskets 
of flowers in the market, — baskets of ver- 
benas, pansies, petunias, also pot plants, roses, 
geraniums, palms, sword ferns, tuberous 
begonias, etc., which he found sold at a good 
profit. From that time Mr. Bebbington has 
sold thousands of plants, having had five sales 
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was the first, in 1874, to make a floral design 
at a funeral, which branch of the business is 
now a specialty of his, he often making as 
many as ten or twelve pieces at prominent 
funerals. He also sells a quantity of bedding 
plants in Chatham, Newcastle, St. Andrews, 
St. Stephen, and Woodstock. The beautiful 
display of tulips at the Dufferin and New 
Victoria Hotels, St. John, as well as Mr. 
T. C. Allan's, ex-Mayor Whitehead's, of 
Fredericton, also Alex Gibson, Marysville, 
were supplied and planted by Mr. Bebbing- 
ton. Besides his foreign importation, he 
buys from Boston, New York, Chicago, and 
Philadelphia markets. Mr. Bebbington has 
scores of prize cards from the Provincial and 
Dominion Exhibitions of 1S70, 1878, 1S80, 
and since. 

At the present time Mr. Bebbington grows 
annually four thousand heads of celery and 
some twenty barrels of onions. His garden 
and grounds in the months of July and August 
are a delight to the beholder. The I-^rederic- 
ton Gleaner for August 6, 1899, had the fol- 
lowing notice: 

"A Place of Beauty. 

"One of the most delightful places in the 
city at present is the grounds and conserva- 
tories of J. Bebbington & Son at lower end 
of Charlotte Street; and citizens having guests 
here should not think of allowing them to de- 
part without first making a visit to Bebbing- 
ton's, where they are assured of a hearty 
welcome, courteous attention, and an enchant- 
ing visit. The level lawn is as smooth as 



a stretch of green velvet, and is surrounded 
by close-clipped and fragrant cedar hedges. 
The flower beds are a mass of gorgeous beauty, 
all colors of nature's garden being harmoni- 
ously blended in the artistic arrangement of 
the plants and flowers. Here are all the new 
and pretty flowers and the much-loved and 
old-fashioned English double hollyhocks and 
bride's bouquet, asters, sweet peas in great 
array, and many new colors, mignonette, 
candytuft, alyssum, verbenas, and other luxu- 
rious perennials. Scores of beautiful bouquets 
are being made up every day to cheer a sick- 
room or to ornament a tasteful lady's table." 

Mr. Bebbington is a member of the Sons of 
P^ngland, a communicant of the Church of 
England, and for some years has been an 
usher in the Cathedral. He was superinten- 
dent of a Sunday-school at the Mills for about 
twelve years. In the fall of 1872 Mr. Beb- 
bington was married to Miss Sarah Bowtle, 
of Essex, England; and their only son, J. 
William Bebbington, is now associated with 
his father in the business, the firm being f. 
Bebbington & Son. The latter was formerly 
with Rebstocks, florists, Buffalo, N.Y. He 
makes yearly trips to Montreal and the States 
to buy goods. He is quite a genius in de- 
signing and mechanical work. 



"ARRIS ALLAN, a well-known and 
— ' I respected citizen of St. John, a native 
of the city, was born in August, 
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Allan. His father, who was born in Lenox- 
shire, Scotland, forty miles from Glasgow, in 
1798, emigrated to New Brunswick in 1824, 
and the following year, in company with James 
Harris, established the first foundry in the 
Province. Under the firm name of Harris & 
Allan, they started business in a small way, 
but, as the country developed and the popula- 
tion increased, enlarged their operations. 
Though their works were twice burned, they 
rebuilt them, each time on a larger scale. 
Their specialty at first was the building of 
steam-engines and saw-mills. Then they 
made stoves, and still later railroad cars and 
car-wheels; and in this they eventually did an 
extensive business. Mr. Allan continuing in 
it up to the time of his death. Mr. Allan's 
wife, Jane, was the daughter of Giles Hookway, 
and she bore him six children, namely : 
Thomas, now deceased, and Robert R. , who 
formed the firm of Allan Brothers in the foun- 
dry business in Carlton; Elizabeth R., now 
deceased, who was the wife of James I. Fel- 
lows; Harris; Bertha A., who is the wife of 
George J. Schoeld, of St. John; and Mary, the 
widow of Norris Best, at one time of Wood- 
stock, N.B. Mr. Allan was Police Commis- 
sioner for the town of Portland. He was 
president of St. Andrew's Society and treas- 
urer of St. Stephen's Church. He died in 
June, 1862; and his wife died in 1876. 

Harris Allan was reared in St. John, and 
attended the public schools until he was fifteen 
years of age, when he began learning the busi- 
ness in his father's foundry. Going to Fred- 
ericton in 185 1, he established the first foun- 



dry at that place, which he subsequently 
operated for fifteen years. After that for about 
two years he was engaged in the manufacture 
of hypophosphates, in company with his 
brother-in-law, Mr. Fellows, establishing a 
plant at Calais, Me. On his return to St. 
John, Mr. Allan engaged in the brass foundry 
business, which he conducted until 1887. 
From 1889 to 1S97 he carried on a stove and 
hardware business, and at the end of that time 
retired. Mr. Allan has been mechanical en- 
gineer for the St. John exhibition since its 
inception. For five years during his residence 
in Fredericton he was an Alderman of that 
city, and he was for ten years an Alderman for 
St. John. He is a member of St. Andrew's 
Society, of the Masonic Fraternity, and of the 
Knights Templars. 

In 1856 Mr. Allan was united in marriage 
to Miss Clara Ann Burrington, a daughter of 
Frederick Burrington, of P2xeter, Devon, Eng- 
land. Mrs. Clara A. Allan died in 1868, 
leaving one child, John Barnes Allan. Mr. 
Allan subsequently married Margaret Anna, 
daughter of Captain Allen McLean, of St. 
John. Two children have been born of this 
union, neither of whom is n(nv living. 




n^LIAM HENRY HARRISON, of 
Sackville, Westmorland County, 
N.B. , who is now in his eighty-seventh year, 
comes from sturdy English stock. He is a 
direct descendant of John Harrison, who was 
born in Rillington, Yorkshire, England. 

In 1774 John Harrison emigrated to Amer- 



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ica, and settled in Maccan, Cumberland 
County, N. S. , where he leased a farm from 
one Mr. Barron at a rental of twenty pounds 
per year. While in England he married 
Sarah Lovell, who bore him nine children. 
Luke, the eldest, married Tryphena Bent; 
John, the second son, was married twice (his 
first wife was Dinah Lumley, and his second 
wife was Charlotte Mills) ; Thomas, the 
grandfather of William H. Harrison, married 
Mary Henry; and William married Jane 
Coates. The daughters were married as fol- 
lows:' Mary to Matthew Lodge, Sarah to James 
Brown, Nancy to John Lumley, Hannah to 
John Lambert, and Elizabeth to Henry Fur- 
long. 

Luke Harrison, son of Thomas Harrison 
and the father of William H. Harrison, was 
born at Maccan, N.S. , August lo, 1787, and 
died at Sussex, N. B. , November 12, 1863. 
I~Ie served an apprenticeship as blacksmith 
and wheelwright in his Nova Scotia home, and 
after moving to Sussex, N. B. , in the early 
part of the present century, continued at his 
trade throughout the remaining years of his 
activity. He married Hannah Lodge, who 
was horn June 3, 1787, and died April 15, 
i860. They had five children, of whom their 
first-born, William Henry, is the only sur- 
vivor. Charles Clement, born March iS, 1817, 
died August 28, 1843, unmarried; Mary Ann, 
born July 17, 1820, married J. Nelson Coates, 
of Smith's Creek, Sussex, N. B. , and died in 
April, 1889; Thomas Albert, born March 15, 
1824, married Isabella Stevenson, of St. An- 
drews, N. B., and died at St. John, N. B., De- 



cember 31, 1896; Joseph Lodge, born July 
25, 1827, married Charlotte Snider, of Sus- 
sex, N. B. , and died April 4, 1891. . 

John Harrison, who emigrated to the Mari- 
time Provinces, was a relative of John Harri- 
son, the inventor of the chronometer. John 
Harrison, the inventor, was born at Foulby, 
in the parish of Wragley, near Pontrefact, 
Yorkshire, in May, 1693, and died at his 
home in Red Lion Square in 1776. He re- 
ceived from the British government the prize 
of twenty thousand pounds sterling offered for a 
number of years to the person who should suc- 
ceed in inventing a chronometer satisfactory 
to the government. 

The original letter, bearing date June 30, 
1774, written by John Harrison, the emi- 
grant, to his friends in England, announcing 
his arrival in Nova Scotia and giving his im- 
pressions of the new country, is now in the 
possession of William H. Harrison. This 
letter, with others of later date, was obtained 
by William H. Harrison in 1858, while on a 
visit to the old home in Yorkshire. 

William Henry Harrison was born July 20, 
1 81 3, at Sussex, N. B. When a young man 
lie moved to St. John, and in 1838 entered 
into partnership with Captain Robert Fields, 
under the style of Fields & Harrison, and 
carried on a general business. In 1S39 ^'^^ 
entered the employ of James Hamilton, whole- 
sale importer and commission merchant, whom 
he succeeded in business several years later. 
He afterward went into business with Charles 
W. Berteaux, under the style of W. H. Plarri- 
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wholesale, and commission business for a 
number of years. In 1870 he purchased a 
large farm at Sussex, N.B. , adjoining the old 
homestead occupied by his brother, Joseph L. 
He engaged a Scotch farmer to manage the 
farm while he carried on business in St. John. 
He moved his family from St. John to Sussex, 
and in 1874 closed up his business in St. 
John and devoted his whole attention to farm- 
ing. In 1877 he sold the farm to John Barnes, 
of Nappan, N. S. , and moved to Sackville, 
N. 15. , where he now resides. 

He has been married three times. His first 
wife, Rebecca Slocomb, and his second wife, 
Sarah Slocomb, were daughters of John Slo- 
comb, of Wilmot, N. S. Neither of them left 
children. In 1850 he married Lavinia M. , 
daughter of the Rev. Richard Knight, D. D. , 
a Methodist minister. The family record 
shows the birth of eight children, briefly men- 
tioned as follows: Richard Knight, born Au- 
gust 31, i860, married Annie Graham, of Sus- 
sex, N.B. , and now resides in Colorado 
Springs, Col., U.S.A.; Hannah Lovell, born 
February i, 1862, died December 20, 1863; 
William Henry, born May 17, 1863, is man- 
ager of the branch of the Halifax Banking- 
Company at Sackville, N.B. ; Charles Alli- 
son, born October 5, 1864, died May 5, 1865; 
Frederick Arthur Lovell, born March 26, 
1866, is in charge of the job printing depart- 
ment of the Post Printing Company at 
Sackville, N. B. ; Albert Thornton, born 
August I, 1867, is a telegraph operator 
in the employ of the Postal Telegraph and 
Cable Company, New York City; Mary Louisa 



was born May 27, 1869; Frank Allison, born 
at Sussex, N. B., December 22, 1870, married 
Flora S. Anderson, of Sackville, N. B. , and is 
a member of the law firm of Powell, Bennett & 
Harrison. 

William H. Harrison is a Liberal Conserv- 
ative in politics, and both he and Mrs. Harri- 
son are members of the Methodist church. 
While living in St. John, he took an active 
part in the educational and other interests of 
the Methodist church. He was one of the 
trustees of Centenary Methodist Church, St. 
John, before the great fire of 1877, and was 
for several years a member of the Board of 
Regents of the Mount Allison institutions 
at Sackville, N.B. 

Mr. Harrison, the subject of this sketch, 
was a jjassenger on the steamship "Royal 
Tar," which was burned while on her way 
from St. John to P'ortland, Me., in October, 
1836. A large number of passengers were 
drowned, and he is probably the only person 
living out of all who were on the ill-fated 
steamer. 



AMES KNOX, ship-chandler, St. John, 
was born in Rothesay, Buteshire, Scot- 
land, in 1833, son of John and Marion 
(Walker) Knox. Coming to New Brunswick 
in 1855, he entered the employ of his uncle, 
John Walker, who established himself in busi- 
ness at St. John in 1820, and became an ex- 
tensive ship-owner. After the death of bis 
uncle, which occurred in 1870, Mr. Knox con- 
tinued the business, under the fii'm name of 
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nephew, Walker Firth, was admitted to part- 
nership. From that time the firm of Knox & 
Firth carried on the business until Mr. Firth's 
retirement in 1882. For the past sixteen 
years Mr. Knox has conducted the business 
alone, being proprietor of one of the leading 
ship-chandlery establishments in the city. 

In 1858 Mr. Knox was united in marriage 
with Miss Annie Farmer, who was born in St, 
John, daughter of Richard Farmer, a native of 
Yorkshire, England. They have had five chil- 
dren, namely : Captain James Walker Knox, 
who was born March 13, 1863, and died in 
Hong Kong, China, March 13, 1897; Marion, 
who resides at home; Richard, who is in busi- 
ness with his father; John; and Annie Knox. 
Captain James W. Knox married a Miss Allen, 
and was the father of three children — James 
Walker, Howe Allen, and Muriel. Richard 
Knox married Josephine Dick, and has two 
children — Edith and Percy. 

Mr. Knox belongs to the Masonic frater- 
nity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
and the Foresters; also to the Clan McKenzie 
and the St. Andrew's Society, and was presi- 
dent of the latter for two years. lie attends 
■St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, of which he 
is a trustee. 

'AMUEL FAIRWEATHER HAT- 
FII^LD, ship-chandler, St. John, 
was born in Springfield, N. B. , Au- 
gust 22, 1 84 1, son of Henry Thomas and 
Sarah (Fairweather) Hatfield. He is of Loy- 
alist ancestry, being a great-grandson of Daniel 
Hatfield, who came from New York State to 




New Brunswick in 1783, and, receiving a 
grant of land in Springfield, Kings County, 
followed general farming for the rest of his 
life. The maiden name of Daniel Hatfield's 
wife was Mary Drake, and his children were: 
Isaac, Daniel, Uriah, David, Mary, Annie, 
Jane, Abbie, Lydia, Sarah, and Abraham, all 
of whom were born in Springfield. Isaac Hat- 
field, the grandfather, who was a prosperous 
farmer of Springfield, married Maria Thomas, 
and had ten children; namely, Daniel, Henry 
Thomas, David, Uriah Drake, Isaac, Samuel, 
Highly Brewer, Mary, Fannie, and Emma. 

Henry Thomas Hatfield, the father, v\'as 
born in Springfield in 18 10. He was reared 
upon a farm ; and he tilled the soil energeti- 
cally from early manhood until his death, 
which occurred March 7, 1882. He served as 
Deacon of the Baptist church, was an earnest 
advocate of temperance, and was highly re- 
spected for his upright character. Sarah 
(Fairweather) Hatfield, his wife, was also de- 
scended from loyal ancestry, and a daughter of 
Samuel Fairweather. She became the mother 
of fourteen children, of whom eight are living, 
namely: Rachel; Samuel F., the subject of 
this sketch; James R. ; Abner; Walter T. ; 
John Wesley; Gilbert Corey; and Diademia. 
The others were : Maria Thomas, who married 
Jacob Morrell, and died March 30, 1868; 
Daniel; Isaac; Fannie; Annie Augusta; and 
Sarah. The mother is still living. She was 
eighty years old on January 16, 1898. 

Samuel P'airweather Hatfield resided upon 
the home farm and assisted in its cultivation 
until June 20, 1868, when he came to St. John. 




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He has carried on ship-chandlery successfully 
for the past t\venty-f]ve years, and is widely 
and favorably known among shipmasters. 

On November 4, 1870, Mr. Hatfield was 
united in marriage with Jeanette Maud Corey, 
who was born in Queens County, New Bruns- 
wick, of Scotch ancestry. She is a daughter 
of William Corey, and sister to the Rev. 
W. A. Corey, a Baptist minister. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hatfield are members of the Baptist 
church. 



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EORGE WEST JONES, of St. John, 
\h^J_ N.B., is a successful business man, 
and is widely and favorably known in athletic, 
military, and political circles. Born in St. 
John, May i, 1864, he is a son of Simeon 
Jones and a direct descendant of Josiah Jones, 
who removed from Nova Scotia to St. John in 
1783. Thomas Jones, his paternal grand- 
father, who married a Miss Caverhill, came 
from Nova Scotia, and, locating on the St. 
John River, spent his remaining days in this 
vicinity, dying at the venerable age of ninety 
years. 

A condensed sketch of the life of Simeon 
Jones, a well-known and respected citizen of 
St. John, of which he was for some years 
Mayor, may be found in the volume entitled 
"Public Men of Canada " and in "Represent- 
ative Canadians. " 

George W. Jones in his youth was for five 
years a student in Merchiston School at Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. Returning home in 1883, 
equipped with a good education, he was en- 
gaged the following year as a clerk in the 



dry-goods store of Daniel & Boyd, a wholesale 
establishment; and in 1884 he entered his 
father's brewery to learn the business. In 
1893 he and his brothers through their father's 
generosity became the proprietors of the brew- 
ery, and have since managed it most advan- 
tageously, although the business is still carried 
on under the name of its founder, Simeon 
Jones. For ten years he has been a member 
of the St. John Board of Trade. 

Mr. Jones is a noted athlete, and as a cham- 
pion in different games is known at home and 
abroad. While he was in school he was cap- 
tain of both the college football and the col- 
lege cricket teams. Since his return he has 
been captain of the Canadian International 
Cricket Team, and he was with the Canadian 
team that went to England in 1887. For a 
number of years he has been identified with 
military matters. In 1886 he joined the 
Third Regiment, Canadian Artillery, as Sub- 
Lieutenant, and on September 28, 1897, was 
promoted to the command and given the rank 
of Lieutenant Colonel. This is a splendidly 
drilled corps, and has been highly compli- 
mented. Mr. Jones is a Conservative in poli- 
tics. He is a member of Union Lodge, F. & 
A. M., of Portland, N. B., but has refused to 
hold any chairs therein. He is a member of 
the Church of England, and for two years he 
has served as vestryman. 

On the 6th of January, 1S97, Mr. Jones 
married Mabel Rolt, daughter of Colonel 
George Rolt White, of Quebec, who for sev- 
eral years was Commander of the Eighth 
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)E BARON WILSON, merchant tailor, 
St. John, was born in this city, No- 
vember 15, 1S64, son of Matthew 
and Melissa (Godsoe) Wilson. His grand- 
father, Samuel Wilson, was a native of the 
north of Ireland, where he learned the tailor's 
trade. In 1837 he emigrated to New Bruns- 
wick, and, settling in St. John, established 
himself in the tailoring business, which he 
followed until his death. He was a member 
of St. Patrick's Society. He married Marga- 
ret Stilt, and had a family of ten children; 
namely, James, Mathew, Samuel, Thomas 
William, John, Elizabeth, Maggie, Rebecca, 
Annie, and Jane, all of whom are living ex- 
cept Mathew. Elizabeth is the wife of Mr. 
Murray, of Moncton, N.B. Maggie married 
Colonel A. Blaine, of St. John. Rebecca is 
the wife of Thomas Keys, of this city. Annie 
married Captain Robert Fleming. Jane is the 
wife of Job Jones, of Moncton. 

Mathew Wilson, father of Le Baron, was 
born in the north of Ireland in 1S36, and came 
to New Brunswick with his parents in 1837. 
After learning the tailor's trade with his 
father, he opened an establishment on his own 
account, conducting it successfully until his 
death, which occurred June 11, 1876. He is 
survived by his wife, Melissa, who is a daugh- 
ter of Charles Godsoe, and by four of their si.\ 
children ; namely, Le Baron, T. Amo.s, Mat- 
thew v., and Frederick F. 

Le Baron Wilson was educated in the public 
schools of St. John. At the age of fifteen he 
commenced to learn the tailor's trade with 
George Salmon, and later attended the John 



J. Mitchell cutting school in New York. On 
March i, 1886, he established himself in busi- 
ness, being the third representative of the fam- 
ily in a direct line to follow the same trade, 
and one of the leading merchant tailors in the 
city. 

On January 9, 18S9, Mr. Wilson married 
Miss Mary Thompson, daughter of William 
Thompson, a native of the north of Ireland. 
They have four children — Barry, Keltic, Hed- 
ley Cooper, and Frank G. 

Mr. Wilson belongs to Albion Lodge, 
A. F. & A. M., has been High Priest of the 
Chapter, and is a member of De Molay Precep- 
tory. Knights Templar. He also belongs to 
Union Lodge, No. 2, Knights of Pythias of 
St. John, and to other orders. 




MOS OGDEN has for many years been 
intimately associated with the devel- 
opment of the manufacturing and 
commercial interests of Sackville, N. B., 
and is to-day numbered among its substantial 
business men. A son of the late Henry 
Ogden, he was born in this town, March 7, 
1824. 

John Ogden, his paternal grandfather, was 
born in a town on the Hudson River, in New 
York State, where he was living at the time of 
the breaking out of the American Revolu- 
tion. Then, with two of his brothers, Henry 
and Bloomer, he migrated to Canada, where 
they all settled when very young men. 
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worked as farm hands in various parts of 
what is now the Dominion of Canada. After 
his marriage with Nancy, daughter of John 
Fawcett, of Sackville, Westmorland County, 
John Ogden settled on a farm in this locality, 
where they both lived to a ripe old age. Hav- 
ing been a Loyalist, he received from the 
English government a grant of five hundred 
acres of land at River Philip, Nova Scotia, 
and an annua) pension of ten pounds, as a 
reward for his fidelity to the crown. He 
reared eight children, six boys and two 
daughters, Henry being the second son, 

Henry Ogden was born at the homestead in 
Sackville. Learning the trade of a blacksmith 
in early manhood, he followed it until a few 
years prior to his death, which occurred at 
the venerable age of eighty-six years. Indus- 
trious and thrifty, guided through life by high 
moral principles, he was highly esteemed as a 
man and as a citizen. He attended the Meth- 
odist church, of which his wife, Sarah, was a 
member. She was a daughter of Nehemiah 
Ayer, of Sackville, and she preceded her hus- 
band to the better land, passing away at the 
age of sixty-nine years. Of their three chil- 
dren two are living — Amos and William. 
The latter married Alice Barnes, daughter of 
Bedford Barnes, of Sackville, and has three 
children — Ethel, Greta, and Mary. 

Amos Ogden acquired a practical knowl- 
edge of the common branches of learning in 
the Sackville schools, and while yet a young 
man exhibited great business capacity. Be- 
ginning the manufacture of lumber on his own 
account, he has since continued in that busi- 



ness witli eminent success, and has also been 
largely interested in shipping from this port. 
A man of sterling integrity and high moral 
character, he has often been called to serve 
the public in places of responsibility, and as 
an official has always proved himself worthy of 
the trust reposed in him by his fellow-men. 
For fourteen years he was County Councillor, 
ten years of the time serving as warden of the 
Council, and being also on many of the im- 
portant committees. In politics he is a firm 
supporter of the principles promulgated by 
the Conservative party. 

Mr. Ogden has been three times married. 
His first wife, Mary Jane, daughter of George 
Black, of Dorchester, N.B. , died at the age of 
fifty-three years. She bore him four children, 
of whom but one is living, namely: Annie, 
who is the wife of James R. Ayer, of Sack- 
ville, and has two children — Marjory and 
Doris. His second wife, Jane, daughter of 
Thomas Christie, of Nova Scotia, died at the 
age of fifty-three years, leaving no children. 
Mr. Ogden subsequeiitly married Mrs. Eliza 
Lewis, born Barnes, daughter of Silas Barnes, 
of Nova Scotia. 



OHN HENRY HARDING was born in 
/^j St. John, January 2, 1818. His father 
was Thomas Harding, and his paternal 
grandfather, William Harding, the Loyalist, 
who came to New Brunswick in 17S3, and 
settled in St. John. After finishing his edu- 
cation at Horton Academy, N. S., John Henry 
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at a later period he was for five years book- 
Iveeper with Solomon Hersey, a banker and 
lumber merchant. In 1846 Mr. Harding- 
moved to Shippegan, N. B. , and, in company 
with William G. Weir and the Hon. Joseph 
Cunard, of Miramichi, erected a lumber mill, 
which he operated for three years. He then 
removed the mill to Newcastle, N. B., where 
for the next ten years he carried on a lumber 
business and kept a general store; also built 
several ships. In 1870 he was appointed Pro- 
vincial Agent of the Department of Marine 
and Fisheries, and served until 1S94, when he 
was retired, and succeeded by his son Fred- 
erick. 

Mr. Harding was married in September, 
1846, to Mary, daughter of William Spurr, of 
Bridgetown, and sister of J. De Wolfe Spurr, 
of St. John. He has four children living, 
namely: James Spurr, broker and commission 
merchant, of St. John; Charles Spurr; Freder- 
ick Johnson; and Emma Amelia, wife of J. T. 
McBride, of Montreal. The golden wedding 
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Harding was cele- 
brated in 1896. 




sif^lICHAEL RYAN, a successful brick 
manufacturer of P'redericton, York 
County, was born in Kings 
County, New Brunswick, in 1845, son of 
Michael and Julia (O'Donnell) Ryan. 

Michael Ryan, Sr. , was born in Tij^perary 
County, Ireland, whence he came to New 
Brunswick as a young man. During the first 
years in his new home he followed farming, 



and later he took up the manufacture of brick 
at St. John. Coming to Fredericton in 185 1, 
for three years he made brick for a Mr. Block, 
a mason. His remaining years of activity 
were devoted to farming. He died at eighty- 
two years of age. His wife was also a native 
of County Tipperary, Ireland. She died 
young, leaving four children, of whom three 
are living. 

Michael Ryan, the third child, was quite 
young when the family came to Fredericton. 
He was educated in the common schools of 
this place, one of his teachers being Solomon 
Denton, and at the chapel school. He subse- 
c^uently went to the United States, where he 
engaged in lumber business until 1873. Re- 
turning to P'redericton, he entered into partner- 
ship with his brother under the style of Ryan 
Brothers, and for nine years they did a good 
business in the manufacture of brick. Michael 
subsequently purchased his brother's interest, 
and has since carried on the business alone. 
He makes a first-class article, and has supplied 
the brick for many of the large buildings in 
this vicinity, including the Normal School, 
City Plall, the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and 
many of the government buildings. Pie has 
a diploma and medal for brick and tile sent to 
the Colonial Aid Indian E.xhibition, London, 
in 1 886. llie first year he inanufactured four 
hundred thousand by hand, but now, with the 
assistance of steam, burning" five kilns a season, 
he has increased his annual production to be- 
tween one and two million brick. In politics 
Mr. Ryan is a Conservative. In religion he 
is a member of the Roman Catholic church. 




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He belongs to various insurance orders, and 
is now one of tlie representatives for Welling- 
ton Ward in the City Council. 

In 1873 Mr. Ryan was married at Frederic- 
ton, N. B. , to Miss Mary Rowan, of that place. 
Five children, three sons and two daughters, 
have blessed their union, namely: Frederick 
James, who is in company with his father in 
the brickyard; Arthur John, who is in the drug 
business in Fredericton ; Thomas; Aimie; and 
Mary. 

LFRED MARKHAM, managing direc- 
tor of the S//n Printing Company 
(Limited), St. John, N. B. , was born 
in Lincolnshire, England, on February 26, 
1S41. After receiving a grammar-school edu- 
cation, he was employed in the railway and 
dock service until 1864, when he sailed for 
the United States in the steamship "Bohe- 
mian." The voyage terminated disastrously, 
the vessel being wrecked near Portland, Me., 
on February 22 of that year, at which time 
forty-two of the passengers were drowned. Mr. 
Markham was emjoloyed on the Grand Trunk 
Railway at Portland and Boston for nearly two 
years, after which he was engaged as clerk on 
the International Company's steamer "New 
Brunswick," plying between Boston, Mass., 
and St. John, N.B. In April, 1866, he took 
charge, for an American company, of the Man- 
ganese Mines at Hammond Vale, Kings 
County, N. B. , where he lived for twenty-five 
years, and where he established a mining vil- 
lage, which was named Markhamville. He 
succeeded in making these mines the most 



famous manganese mines on the continent. 
Mr. Markham was Warden of Kings County 
when the Marquis of Lome and the Princess 
Louise visited New Brunswick, and presented 
an address to them at Sussex. In 1S80 he was 
appointed Senior Major of the Eighth Princess 
Louise Hussars, and in i8g6 was gazetted Lieu- 
tenant Colonel in the militia. He is vice- 
president of the Provincial Rifle Association, 
and president of the Canadian Cavalry Asso- 
ciation. In i8gi he bought the St. John 
Daily Sun newspaper, and on the organization 
of the Sun Printing Company was a]5pointed 
managing director. 

Colonel Markham is a Past President of St. 
George's Society and a Knight Templar. He 
is vice-president of the Keystone Fire Insur- 
ance Company and a director of the Pictou 
Charcoal Iron Company. In politics he is an 
active Conservative. In religion he is an 
Episcopalian, He was married in November, 
1866, to Naida, daughter of the late John E. 
Turnbull. His family consists of two sons 
and four daughters. 




TEPHEN S. HALL, of the whole- 
//^ sale grocery firm of Hall & Fair- 
weather, Limited, St. John, was born 
in Annapolis, N.S., in 1826, son of James and 
Jane (Thorne) Hall. His ancestors on both 
sides were Loyalists, who removed to the 
Maritime Provinces immediately after the close 
of the American Revolution, the Halls coming 
from Massachusetts and the Thornes from New 
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Stephen S. Hall came to St. John in 1843, 
and, commencing his business life as a dry- 
goods clerk with Charles Ketchum, was later 
with R. P. McGiven in the same line of trade 
on Dock Street. He subsequently worked on 
South Wharf for his uncle, R. W. Thorne, 
whom he left to enter the employ of J. V. 
Troop ; and, when Mr. Troop went into the 
shipping business, Mr. Hall engaged in the 
wholesale grocery trade. He conducted busi- 
ness alone from 1851 to 1854, when he formed 
a copartnership with Charles H. Fairweather. 
For many years they were extensive flour deal- 
ers. They continued in business until the 
death of Mr. Fairweather in June, 1894, since 
which time the firm has been known under its 
present title of Hall & Fairweather, Limited. 
The concern is still transacting a large whole- 
sale business, and is under the management of 
Mr. S. S. De Forrest. 

In 185 I Mr. Hall married a daughter of the 
late Israel Fellows, and a sister of James I. 
Fellows, formerly of St. John. Mrs. Hall was 
born in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia; and 
her ancestors were Loyalists. She became the 
mother of seven children, namely : P"lorence, 
now deceased, who married F. R. Fairweather; 
Mabel, who married Dr. McMurdo, of the 
United States Army; Manetta, accidentally 
burned to death in childhood; Henry F., 
who is now at the Klondike gold fields; Her- 
bert, who is cultivating the farm in Gagetown, 
N. B. , formerly owned by the Hon. Hugh 
Johnson; Ethelwyne, who is residing at home; 
and Stephen, the eldest son, who was in busi- 
ness with his father, and is no longer living. 



Politically, Mr. Hall is a Conservative. He 
is a member of the Church of England, and is 
deeply interested in religious affairs, having 
been prominently identified for many years with 
the Stone Church, of which he was formerly a 
Vestryman. Mr. Hall is now agent for the 
Phoenix Fire Assurance Company of London. 




\\ DAVID WARK, LL.D., of Fred- 
ericton, N.B. , has the distinction of 
being the oldest living senator in 
the Dominion of Canada. He was born Feb- 
ruary 19, 1804, near the city of Londonderry, 
Ireland. He is of pure Scotch descent, some 
of his early ancestors having been in the 
company of immigrants who went from Scot- 
land in the time of James I. to the north of 
Ireland to repopulate the country after the 
severe wars of that period. One of them at a 
later date was a defender of Londonderry dur- 
ing a protracted siege; and his wife, during 
the unsettled period when the English were 
making frequent incursions through the coun- 
try, was forced to take her children and hastily 
leave the house to avoid capture. She found 
no way of obtaining food, and soon starvation 
confronted her. Sadly she thought of the 
large chest, brought from Scotland by the 
Wark family, capable of holding eight barrels 
of oatmeal, tlien standing well filled in her 
home. Rather than see her children want, 
this pluck}' woman returned to her house, 
which was filled with English soldiers; and, 
walking through their midst, filled her apron 
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made her way out, leaving them mute with as- 
tonishment. 

The paternal grandfather of David Wark was 
a lifelong farmer in Londonderry, and his home- 
stead property descended to his son, who was 
David's father. The latter married a Miss 
MacAdoo, who was a direct descendant of the 
Camerons, and whose ancestors, as is shown by 
the term "Mac," which in Scotch signifies 
son, were sons of Adoo. 

David Wark obtained his elementary educa- 
tion in the common schools of Londonderry, 
and pursued more advanced studies under the 
tutorship of the resident Presbyterian clergy- 
man. Li 1835 he came to New Brunswick, 
and five years later located in Richibucto, 
where he was for a short time employed as a 
clerk in a country store, and afterward taught 
school six years. On giving up his school he 
there opened a store for general merchandise, 
and subsequently embarked in the lumber busi- 
ness, which he carried on with eminent success 
for forty years. Having thus accumulated a 
competency, Mr. Wark retired from commer- 
cial pursuits, and in 1871 removed to Fred- 
ericton. 

For several years he was a Judge of the 
Court of Conunon Pleas, holding office until 
that court was abolished to make room for a 
county court. Mr. Wark has always been 
identified in politics with the Liberals, and 
has been very active in public affairs. He 
was elected to the New lirunswick House of 
Assembly in December, 1842, and again in 
1846, and sat eight years in that House. He 
served on more committees in one session than 



any other member, the ten committees to which 
he belonged including those on trade and edu- 
cation. He was then appointed to a seat in 
the Legislative Council, which he filled for six- 
teen years, during which he was for some years 
a member of the executive government and at 
one time Receiver General. In 1867 he was 
summoned to a seat in the Senate of the Do- 
minion of Canada, which he has filled for 
thirty-two years; and it is said that he is now 
older than any member of the Imperial Parlia- 
ment or the legislature of any of the colonies 
of the British Empire. During the last ses- 
sion, despite his advanced years, he spoke for 
an hour in the Senate, and received from the 
president high compliments for his address. 
While in the Legislative Council he acted as 
Councillor in the government of the Province 
at different times, and in the Senate has served 
on committees on banking and on commerce, 
which also has charge of railways, and on the 
joint committees of both Houses on printing 
and on libraries, etc. He took an active part 
in reforming the chief educational institutions 
of the Province when the Legislature substi- 
tuted for King's College the University of 
New Brunswick ; and he was for twenty years 
a member oi the Senate of the University, 
which conferred on him the degree of Doctor 
of Laws. During the annexation excitement of 
some years ago Mr. Wark wrote to General 
Butler a reply which excited much interest. 

Mr. Wark married in i860 Elizabeth Annie 
Murphy, who was born in Sheffield, England, 
and whose family is an old Provincial one, 
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The only child horn of their union lives 
in Littleton, N. H. Mr. Wark has been a 
member of the Presbyterian church since his 
early manhood, and has been urged to accept 
the position of Elder, but has steadily refused. 
While in Richibucto he was a trustee and the 
treasurer of the church. Although ninety-four 
years old, he is still hale and active, and says that 
he can saw wood. His memory, always reten- 
tive, is remarkable as regards names and dates; 
and, with the exception of a slight deafness, he 
retains his faculties and strength to an eminent 
degree, being able to write with a firmer hand 
than many a one of half his years. 




'^AMUEL CROTHERS, of the firm of 
Crothers, Henderson & Wilson, car- 
riage manufacturers of St. John, has 
been prominently identified with the business 
interests of St. John since 1852, and is one of 
the representative men of the city. He was 
born in St. John in 1829. His parents, John 
and Margaret (Tate) Crothers, came to Amer- 
ica from the north of Ireland when young. 
John Crothers, who was a shoemaker by trade, 
died in 1850 at the age of fifty-seven years ; 
and his wife, Mrs. Margaret T. Crothers, died 
at the age of si.xty. Of their thirteen children, 
three are living, Samuel Crothers being the 
eldest. 

Mr. Crothers received his schooling in St. 
John, and when a young lad began work in the 
store of Robert Polley, who had a crockery- 
ware business. After remaining there for a 
year, he entered the clothing establkshment of 



C. M. Gardner, for whom he worked the next 
two years. He then went to Boston, Mass., 
and for two years served an apprenticeship at 
carriage making with Adams & Smith, after- 
wards the firm of John T. Smith & Co. The 
next four years he worked at his trade as a 
journeyman, and at the end of that time came 
back to his native city. Here he engaged with 
J. and W. F. Harrison, of Indiantown, for two 
years and a half; and at the end of that time, 
when their establishment was destroyed by 
fire, he started in business for himself in com- 
pany with Messrs. Price, Shaw, and Sayer, 
the firm name being Crothers, Price & Co. 
This partnership continued for three years, 
and at the end of that time Messrs. Crothers 
and Sayer sold out to the other two partners. 
Six months later Mr. Crothers bought out the 
soap and candle business of Barker and Harvey, 
and for the following year was associated in 
business with Captain Jackson. In 1859 he 
built a carriage factory on the site where his 
present plant is located. Here he carried on 
business under his own name for ten years, and 
at the end of that time received as associates 
James Wilson, an expert wood-worker, and 
Charles J. Henderson, an expert iron-worker. 
These gentlemen have built up what is now 
the leading carriage manufactory of St. John, 
and for the last forty years have been conduct- 
ing it on an assured financial basis. 

Mr. Crothers was married in 1856 to Mary 
Jane Thompson, a native of St. John, and the 
only daughter of the late Robert Thompson, 
who came to this country from the north of Ire- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Crothers have two chil- 




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dren, namely: Ida J. B. , who is the wife of 
II. C. Creighton; and Maggie Thompson. 
]\Ir. Crothers is a trnstee of the Congregational 
church. 




ILLIAM PETERS, wholesale 
leather dealer of St. John, was born 
in Hampstead, Queens County, September 
20, 1 82 1. His parents were Samuel Leonard 
and Phoebe (Tilley) Peters, the former of 
whom was also a native of Hampstead. 

His grandfather, William Peters, first, who 
was a Loyalist during the American Revolu- 
tion, came from New York in 1783, and set- 
tled upon a large tract of land where Upper 
Hampstead is now located. At one time he 
was the owner of Little Musquash Island and 
a large of tract of upland near the head of 
Long Island. In connection with his large 
agricultural interests he was extensively en- 
gaged in lumbering. He was a member of 
the Provincial Assembly many years, and was 
Magistrate of Queens County. He married a 
Miss Haines, of New York, and they were the 
parents of fifteen children, Samuel Leonard, 
above named, being the first-born. All lived 
to maturity, and the first death in the family 
was that of John, who was drowned. 

Samuel Leonard Peters, father of William 
Peters, was trained to farm life, which he fol- 
lowed during his active period, with the ex- 
ception of two years, when he was located on 
what was then known as Bragg's Corner, now 
the junction of Canterbury and King Streets, 
St. John. Disposing of his business to his 
brother, Thomas W. Peters, he purchased a 



farm near the old homestead, which he car- 
ried on during the remaining years of his life. 
He was Parish Clerk and a Magistrate for 
Queens County. His wife, Phoebe, was a 
daughter of James Tilley, and aunt of Sir 
Leonard Tilley, Governor of New Brunswick. 
She became the mother of nine children; 
namely — -William, James T., Alexander N., 
Mary Ann, Phoebe A., Charlotte, Thomas A., 
Samuel Leonard, and Lemuel. James T. and 
Lemuel are no longer living. 

William Peters remained on the home farm 
until 1845, when he went to Indiantown, where 
he was employed in the lumber business dur- 
ing the summer, and for the next two years 
he carried on a grocery store. Removing then 
to St. John, he purchased the stock of Mr. 
McMonagal on Charlotte Street, remaining 
there about the same length of time. He next 
bought Mr. Brundage's lease of the old tan- 
nery, where the Opera House now stands, and, 
later erecting his present building, engaged 
in the wholesale leather business, which he 
has conducted ever since. 

In 1846 Mr. Peters married Miss Mary Jane 
Underbill, daughter of Benjamin J. Under- 
bill, Esq., who was a native of Wickham, 
Queens County. They have had eleven chil- 
dren; namely, Annie, Ida, Ella, Alice M., 
Frederick A., George B., Mary, Charlotte, 
and three who died in infancy. Annie mar- 
ried Albert Peters, and is no longer living; 
Ida is the wife of Dr. E. B. C. Hanington, of 
Victoria, B.C. ; Ella died at the age of eigh- 
teen; Alice M. married William Peters, Jr., 
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lives in St. John; George B. is a resident of 
Worcester, Mass. ; and Mary is the wife of 
C. F. Baker, of Randolph, St. John County. 

Mr. Peters is a Magistrate for the city and 
county of St. John. He was commissioned 
Captain in the Queens County militia, and 
was Alderman from Wellington Ward seven 
years. In the Free Baptist denomination, to 
which he belongs, he has held several impor- 
tant and responsible offices, being treasurer of 
the General Conference, and treasurer of the 
Foreign Mission Society for forty years or 
more. During a portion of the time Mrs. Peters 
also held the treasurership of the Women's 
Aid Foreign Mission Society in connection 
with the denomination. Mr. Peters is a mem- 
ber of the Waterloo Street Free Baptist 
Church. He has held the office of Deacon 
in that church for about forty-five years, and 
was superintendent of the Sunday-school for 
thirty-seven and a half years in succession. 



Yk7\ HEBER ARNOLD, of t 

I Py _ known firm of Vroom & Arno 

^<^^ ance agents, St. John, was 



the weli- 
I'nold, insur- 
iias born in 

Sussex, N. B., on October 29, 1S40, son of 
Lloratio Nelson and Margaret Georgiana (Will- 
iams) Arnold. His grandfather, the Rev. 
Oliver Arnold, was the first rector of the par- 
ish of Sussex; and his great-grandfather, Na- 
than Arnold, was a respectable physician of 
Mansfield, Conn. The ancestry of Nathan 
Arnold is not known with certainty. He is 
thought to be a grandson of John Arnold, who 
was one of the first settlers of Mansfield, 



Conn., and a proprietor and large land-owner 
of that town. John Arnold is supposed to 
have been descended in the fifth or sixth de- 
gree from William Arnold, who was born on 
the twenty-fourth day of June, 1587, at Chesil- 
bourne, in the county of Dorset, England, set- 
tled at Providence, R. I., in 1636, and died at 
Warwick, R.I., at an advanced age. 

" The family of Arnold," it is said, " is of 
great antiquity, having its origin among the 
ancient princes of Wales. According to a 
pedigree recorded in the College of Arms, they 
trace from Ynir, King of Gwentland, middle 
of twelfth century, who was paternally de- 
scended from Ynir, second son of Cadwallader, 
the king of the Britons." 

Oliver was a name of frequent recurrence 
among the posterity of William Arnold, which 
fact seems to indicate that the subject of this 
sketch is a lineal descendant of the William 
Arnold above mentioned. Dr. Nathan Arnold 
married Prudence Denison, daughter of Nathan 
Denison, of Windham, Conn., and they were 
the parents of nine children. Of these at 
least two brothers, Amos and Roswell, came to 
New lirunswick with Olix'er. 

Oliver Arnold graduated at Yale College, 
New Haven, Conn., in 1776. He can:e to St. 
John with other Loyalists in 1783, and first ap- 
pears as secretary to the directors of the town 
at the entrance of the St. John Ri\er. On the 
ninth of November, 1786, he married Char- 
lotte, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Wig- 
gins, of Newburgh, N. Y. He subsequently 
removed to Sussex, where he became the first 
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ary to the Indians. He departed this life on 
April 9, 1834, in the seventy-ninth year of his 
age and the forty-third year of his ministry. 
His wife died on November 23, 1831, aged 
si.xty-five years. They were the parents of 
seven children. 

Of these, Horatio Nelson, the sixth child 
and the third son, who succeeded his father as 
rector of Sussex parish, was born in Sussex on 
December 23, 1799. He entered Kings Col- 
lege, Windsor, N.S., in 18 15, and after his 
graduation was for a time in charge of the 
grammar school at Fredericton. In 1823 he 
was appointed S. P. G. missionary at Gran- 
ville, N. S. ; and, four years later, he took his 
master's degree at King's College, Windsor, 
N.S. Mr. Arnold's wife, Catherine, to whom 
he was married on October 20, 1823, was the 
second daughter of the Rev. Dr. Cochran, vice- 
president of King's College. She died soon 
after, and he was married on January 29, 1826, 
to Georgiana, fourth daughter of the late 
Thomas Williams, commissary and store-keeper 
at Annapolis Royal. In December, 1828, he 
removed to Sussex as assistant to his father; 
and, on the death of the latter, in 1834, he be- 
came missionary there under the S.P. G. He 
died on December 8, 1848, leaving a family of 
five children, as follows: Fenwick Williams, 
who died shortly after beginning the practice 
of medicine in St. John; Horatio Nelson, the 
third child, who died in Australia; O. Roswell 
Arnold, Esq., now of Sussex; Mrs. Charlotte 
Frith, of Calgary; and R. Heber Arnold, of 
St. John. 

R. Heber Arnold when eight years old came 



to St. John, where he received his early edu- 
cation. His first employment was in the office 
of the Registrar of Shipping, and for the 
twelve succeeding years he held a clerical 
position in the Bank of New Brunswick. At 
the end of that time he formed a partnership 
with William E. Vroom, and went with that 
gentleman to Montevideo, South America, 
where he remained for three years. Both part- 
ners then returned to St. John, and have since 
been engaged in general insurance and .ship 
brokerage insurance business. 

Mr. Arnold was married in 1874 to Mar- 
garet Ann Robertson, daughter of the late 
Duncan Robertson, barrister of St. John. Of 
the three children born of this union, one, a 
son, survives — Duncan Robertson Arnold, a 
graduate of the University of New Brunswick. 
Mr. Arnold is a member of the Masonic order. 
He and his family are members of the Church 
of England. 



-JOSEPH M. RUDDOCK, builder of 
steamboats and bridges and operator 
of a foundry, one of the leading busi- 
ness men of Chatham, N B. , was born in St. 
John in 1842, a son of Andrew and Phillis 
(Mills) Ruddock. His father was a native of 
Kinsale, Ireland, born about the first of the 
present century. 

Mr. Ruddock grew up in his native city and 
attended school there. He was then set to 
an apprenticeship with Harrison Allen to 
learn mechanical engineering, being the first 
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been engaged in ship-building. After serving 
six years as an apprentice, he went to Boston, 
where he remained eight months. At the end 
of that time he returned to St. John, and at 
the opening of the European and North Amer- 
ican Railroad entered the employ of that 
company as mechanic in their machine shop 
at Shediac, N. B. After working there for 
two years he went to Nova Scotia and erected 
the crushing mills for the New Brunswick and 
Nova Scotia Gold Mining Company. He 
stayed there more than a year, and then, in 
1862, sailed from Halifax as engineer of a 
Confederate steamer. At the close of that 
summer his vessel was put out of commission, 
and Mr. Ruddock returned to Halifax. 
Shortly after he left for New York, where he 
entered the employ of the United States gov- 
ernment in the building department of the navy. 
He worked at the South Brooklyn Machine 
Works, and assisted in building the "Nyack," 
the "Shawmut," the "Metacomet," and the 
"Mendota, " men-of-war. When his services 
were no longer required there, Mr. Ruddock 
came to Chatham and engaged in the manu- 
facture of lumber. This he continued for iive 
years, and at the end of that time he started 
a machine business. Subsequently, in 1881, 
he purchased the Miramichi Foundry, which 
was established by Fraser & Mason, and 
later operated by the Cunards, now known as 
the Cunard Steamship Company. He has 
since done an extensive foundry business, 
employing a regular force of eighteen men 
and in busy times forty-five. 

In May, 1865, Mr Ruddock was united in 



marriage with Miss Margaret Jane Davidson, 
daughter of Horatio Nelson Davidson, of 
River Philip, Cumberland County, N. S. 
Three sons have blessed this union, all of 
whom are at present engaged in business with 
their father. Charles Davidson, the eldest, 
who was born in Brooklyn, is manager of the 
foundry. Arthur Edward, who was born in 
Chatham, N. B. , attends to the pattern depart- 
ment; and Edwin Nelson is book-keeper for 
the concern. 

Charles D. Ruddock married Addie Turner, 
a daughter of Colin Turner, of this place, 
and has a family of three children, by name — • 
Oloff, Douglas, and Ada. Arthur E. Ruddock 
married Isabel Forbes, a daughter of Captain 
Hugh Forbes, of Chatham, and has one son, 
Arthur Forbes Ruddock. 

Mr. Ruddock is a Past Master of Mirami- 
chi Lodge, F. A. M. ; Past Principal of the 
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons; and a charter 
member of the Royal Arcanum. Politically, 
he is an Independent. 




^ATRICK MORGAN, the oldest-es- 
tablished dry-goods merchant in the 
North End, St. John, was born in 
County Armagh, Ireland, about the year 181 i. 
When twelve years of age he went to England, 
where he served an apprenticeship to the linen 
weavers' trade. Later he was engaged in mer- 
cantile business in Durham, England. In 
1855 he came to New Brunswick, and, settling 
in St. John, established his present business 
in the North End, then known as Portland. 




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For forty-five years he has been the leading 
dry-goods merchant in that i^art of the city, his 
large trade having been built up solely through 
his own enterprise and honest business 
methods. He was accompanied to x\merica by 
his sisters-in-law, Ellen and Margaret Robin- 
son, and his brother-in-law, John Robinson. 
Margaret Robinson became the wife of James 
E. Hogan, of St. John. 

Mr. Morgan married, at Wigton, England, 
Mary Ann Robinson, a native of Cumberland. 
They had five children, .three of whom — 
Ellen, James, and Thomas — were born in 
England, and two, Elizabeth and Harriet, in 
St. John. Ellen is the wife of Frank Foster, 
of St. John, and Harriet is the wife of Joseph 
Harrington. Thomas is in the employ of 
Manchester, Robertson & Allison, of St. John. 
James, who is associated with his father in the 
dry-goods business, married, in 1887, Miss 
Fannie C. Hayes, a daughter of the late Ed- 
ward Hayes, of St. John. She died February 
19, 1894, leaving three children — Cuthbert, 
Nannie, and Edward. Mr. Janaes Morgan is a 
member of the Catholic Mutual Benevolent 
Association. 

Mr. Patrick Morgan is an old freeman of the 
city. He is a member of the Church of Rome, 
and attends St. Peter's Church. 



M 



AVID McROBERTS, a leading citi- 
zen of St. Andrews and owner of 
one of the finest farms on the St. 



Croi.K River, was born in St. Andrews on the 
fourth day of February, 1829, his parents 



being George and Sarah (Boyd) McRoberts, 
both natives of the north of Ireland. Mr. Mc- 
Roberts's paternal grandfather was a linen 
weaver. He emigrated with his family from 
the north of Ireland to Pittsburg, Pa. George 
McRoberts, who was born in Belfast, came 
with his wife to St. Andrews, and here fol- 
lowed his trade of carpenter and ship-builder 
until his death in 1865. The house that he 
built has since been replaced by the pleas- 
ant and home-like dwelling in which his 
son David now resides. His five children 
were: David, George, Nellie, Margaret, and 
Jane. 

David McRoberts was educated in the dis- 
trict school of his native town, and then served 
an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade with 
Mr. John Boyd, of St. George. He has 
worked at carpentering ever since, and from 
1850 to 1854 was interested in ship-building 
at Robbinston, Me. Pie is a member of the 
Presbyterian church and politically a strong 
Conservative. 

Mr. McRoberts married Lydia A. Pine, 
whose great-grandfathers on both sides of her 
house fought in the American war for inde- 
pendence, and subsequently settled in St. 
Stephens. Of this union eight children have 
been born, as follows : Frederick, Edwin Au- 
gust, Warren Herbert, Martin Franklin, 
Leslie, Lemuel Roberts, Albertus William, 
and Charles. The first named of these served 
an apprenticeship, and is now a machinist and 
engineer in Philadelphia, Pa. He was edu- 
cated in the St. Andrews schools. Mr. Mc- 
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munity in which he lives, and commands the 
confidence of his fellow-citizens. 




.RRY BRUNSWICK NASE, 
D. D.S. , was born in Indiantown, 
N.B. , October 9, 1869, and is the 
son of David H. and Henrietta A. (Barnhill) 
Nase. He is a lineal descendant of Henry 
Nase, a native of Germany, who settled in 
Dutchess County, New York, in 1728; and his 
great-great-grandfather was Colonel Henry 
Nase, a Loyalist who came to New Brunswick 
immediately after the American Revolution. 
His paternal grandparents were Philip and 
Elizabeth Mary (Hamm) Nase, the latter a 
daughter of David Hamm, of Westfield, N.B. 
[For further account of ancestors see sketch of 
Philip Nase on another page of the Ricview. ] 

David H. Nase, son of Philip and Elizabeth 
M. (Hamm) Nase, was born in Indiantown, 
February 3, 1848. He was educated in the 
St. John Grammar School. At the age of six- 
teen he began the activities of life as a clerk 
in a grocery store, and later was in business 
with his father. For five years he conducted 
a line of horse cars, which he leased from the 
People's Street Railroad Company, but aban- 
doned that business to become a member of the 
firm of P. Nase & Son, and was later associated 
with his brother, Leonard T. Nase. He with- 
drew from the firm in 1895, and established 
himself in general mercantile business on 
Main Street, where he is carrying on a ijrofit- 
able enterprise. He was a member of the 
Common Council three years, and is now serv- 



ing on the School Board. In politics he sup- 
ports the Liberal party. His wife, Henrietta, 
whom he married December 2, 1S6S, is a 
daughter of Alexander Barnhill, of Pleasant 
Point, Lancaster, N. B. , and formerly of Nova 
Scotia. Mr. and Mrs. Nase have two children 
living, namely: Llarry Brunswick, the subject 
of this sketch ; and Minnie Gibson, wife of 
M. H. J. Fleming, of the Phoenix Foundry. 

Harry Brunswick Nase began his education 
in the public schools of St. John, and com- 
pleted his studies at Wolfville. Lie acquired 
his iirst knowledge of dentistry with Dr. C. F. 
Godsoe, and after practising his profession as 
a travelling dentist for three years he entered 
the University of Michigan, where he remained 
two years. Then he entered the Philadelphia 
Dental College, from which he graduated in 
the class of 1892-93. He practised in the 
United States two years, in Nova Scotia one 
year, and in 1896 opened his present office in 
St. John, where he has acquired a lucrative 
business. 

On April 25, 1898, Dr. Nase was joined in 
marriage with Miss Minnie Hooper Beverly, of 
St. John, daughter of Fulton Beverly. They 
have one child, George Beverly Nase, born 
March 10, 1899. The Doctor is a member of 
the Garretsonian Society of Philadelphia. 



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KORGE C. PETERS, division man- 
\mJ_ ager of the New Brunswick Tele- 
phone Company, has been a resident of 
Moncton, N.B. , for the past thirty years, and 
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with many of its industrial enterprises. Born 
September 7, 1843, in St. John, N.B., he is 
a son of the late George P. Peters, M. D., and 
a grandson of the late Attorney General 
Charles I. Peters. 

George P. Peters took diplomas at Edin- 
burgh and Glasglow, Scotland, and settled as 
a practitioner in St. John, N. B. He there 
built up a good general practice, and for a 
number of years was in charge of the lunatic 
asylum there. Subsequently retiring to his 
farm, which was in the suburbs of St. John, 
on the Manawagonish Road, he was there en- 
gaged to some extent in agricultural pursuits 
until his death, which occurred when he was 
but fifty-five years old. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Margaret Clopper, died very 
young, leaving but one child, George C. 
They were both members of the Church of 
England. 

George C. Peters was educated at the Col- 
legiate School in Fredericton, N. B., and after 
leaving school was for several years one of the 
engineering staff of the Intercolonial Railway 
under the late H. G. C. Ketchum, C. E. In 
1869 he located in Moncton, where he was en- 
gaged in business of various kinds until 1884, 
when he accepted his present position as man- 
ager of the telephone system at Moncton. 
Fraternally, Mr. Peters is identified with the 
Masonic order, being a member of Keith 
Lodge, F. & A. M., of Moncton, and of l^ots- 
ford Chapter, R. A. M. 

On October i, 1867, Mr. Peters married 
YAlza, daughter of the late Hon. Bliss Bot,s- 
ford, J.C.C., of Moncton. They have ten 



children, namely: Louisa J. (wife of John B. 
Magee, of the Intercolonial Railway staff of 
Moncton, who has three children — ■ Marjorie, 
Maurice, and l^essie) ; Bliss Bostford, In- 
spector of the South-eastern Freight Associa- 
tion, Providence, R.I. ; Florence E. ; Mar- 
gueritte C. ; Claude W., of the Bank of 
Montreal, New York; Brookes C, organist; 
Agnes; Fanny C. ; Mary D. ; and E. Byron \V. 



/ ^TeORGE watt, the well-known ship- 
\[^J_ chandler of Chatham, Northumber- 
land County, N. B. , was born in Newcastle, 
that county, in 1852, his parents being Patrick 
and Barbara (Mitchell) Watt. His paternal 
grandfather, James Watt, was a native of Scot- 
land. He came to America about 1820, set- 
tled in the north-west, and subsequently fol- 
lowed farming. His grandmother, Jane Watt, 
lived to reach the advanced age of ninety-three. 
Patrick Watt, who was born in Aberdeen, 
Scotland, was apprenticed to learn the dry- 
goods business in that cit}', but the family 
came across the water before his apprentice- 
ship had expired, and he came with them. 
He entered the employ of Hendersen & Allen 
in Newcastle as clerk, and, having gained a 
good idea of the business, for which he had an 
inherent capacity, he started for himself, and 
attained substantial success. Lie married, in 
1847, Barbara Mitchell, a sister of the Hon. 
Peter Mitchell, well-known as the "Father of 
Confederation." Of the children of this 
union the following-named three grew to ma- 
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Henry Mignowitz Williston, son of Judge 
VVilliston, of Newcastle; William, who suc- 
ceeded his father in business; and George. 
Patrick Watt was for many years a trustee of 
St. James Church in Newcastle. His death 
occurred in iS66. William Watt died in 
Winnipeg in 1894. 

George Watt received his education at the 
Grammar School in Newcastle (having for his 
teacher John Hardie) and at Harkins Semi- 
nary. After leaving school he entered into a 
partnership with his brother in Newcastle. In 
1880 the store was burned, and just after that 
Mr. Watt started the ship-chandlery which he 
has since carried on. He inherits from his 
father a turn for trade and mercantile life, and 
has always been successful in his business 
undertakings. Mr. Watt was County Coun- 
cillor for two terms, and Alderman of Chatham 
upon the organization of the city. He is 
Grand Master of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, and secretary of the Royal Ar- 
canum. 

In 1879 Mr. Watt was united in marriage 
with Miss Elizabeth G. Habberly, a daughter 
of Samuel Habberly, who came from lingland 
to New York, and in i860 removed to 
Chatham. Of this union one child has been 
born^ Frances Agnes. Mr. Watt is Italian 
Consul for this port. 



ON. ANDREW GEORGE BLAIR, 
M.P., and Minister of Railways and 
Canals for Canada, was born at 
Fredericton, N. 15., on the 7th of March, 1844, 




being a son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Segee) 
Blair and of Scotch descent. He was edu- 
cated at the Collegiate School in Fredericton. 
Subsequently he applied himself to the study 
of law, and, being called to the bar in April, 
1867, has since most successfully practised 
his profession. In 1878 he entered the polit- 
ical arena, and at the general election of that 
year was returned to represent York County 
in the House of Assembly of New Brunswick. 
A petition having been filed against his re- 
turn, however, he resigned his seat, and on 
the issue of a new writ was re-elected on De- 
cember 14 of the same year. At the first ses- 
sion of the new House in February, 1879, ^^ 
was chosen leader of the opposition, then con- 
sisting of only si.x members besides himself 
in a House of forty-one. In the last session 
of that House, held in 1882, the opposition, 
under his leadership, had increased to seven- 
teen. At the general election of that year, 
1882, he was re-elected for his old constitu- 
ency; and in March, 18S3, he defeated the 
Hannington government, and was called upon 
to form a new ministry, which he succeeded 
in accomplishing in one day. On accepting 
the office of Attorney General, he again ap- 
pealed to his constituents on March 24, and 
was elected. At the general election held 
in 1887 he was once more elected to the 
Legislature, and continued in office as Premier 
and Attorney General until 1S96, when he ac- 
cepted his present office under Mr. (now Sir) 
Wilfrid Laurier, who had been selected to 
form a government, and was returned as the 
member for Queens and Sunbury Counties, 




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New Brunswick, to the Canadian Parliament. 
Tlie Hon. Mr.' Blair is a Liberal in politics, 
and in religion an adherent of the Presbyterian 
church. 

He was married October 31, 1867, to Annie 
E. , eldest daughter of George Thompson, late 
of the educational department at Fredericton. 
By this marriage there have been ten children 
— -seven daughters and three sons — eight of 
whom are living:. 



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EORGE SYLVESTER de FOREST. 
\_f^J_ — Among the many energetic and 
successful merchants who by their ability and 
integrity were instrumental in developing the 
mercantile and shipping interests of St. John 
the subject of this sketch is deservedly en- 
titled to a position in the foremost rank. The 
late George Sylvester de Forest was born in 
Kings County, New J^runswick, October 8, 
1826. He was a son of Samuel Judson de 
Forest, one of the pioneer brewers of this 
province. The first paternal ancestor of whom 
there is any authentic record was Jesse de 
Forest, whose birth took place in 1575 at 
Avesnejs, Province of Hainant, which was 
then a part of the Spanish Netherlands, but 
was later ceded to France, to which it had 
previously belonged. In 1598 Jesse de Forest 
went to Sedan, and in 1601 he married Marie 
du Cloux, a Protestant. He was probably 
one of the founders of New Amsterdam, as 
New York City was originally named by the 
Dutch. Samuel de Forest, Mr. George S. de 
Forest's grandfather, was a Loyalist, and came 



to New Brunswick in 1783. Samuel Judson 
de Forest, son of Samuel, was one of the early 
hotel-keepers of St. John. He established 
upon a small scale a distillery, and later be- 
came a member of the firm of Riley & De Poor- 
est, who were extensive brewers in their day. 

Commencing his business life as a clerk in 
his father's brewery, George Sylvester de 
Forest later entered the employ of Messrs. 
J. & G. Salter, v^'holesale grocers on South 
Wharf, with whom he remained until their 
retirement in 1848. In partnership with his 
brother-in-law, D. C. Perkins, he embarked in 
the same line of trade, and after the retirement 
of his associate he continued the business alone 
for the rest of his life. Like most of the suc- 
cessful merchants of his day, he was quite 
largely interested in shipping, and for many 
years was one of the principal factors in the 
foreign trade of St. John. Although a heavy 
loser in the fire of 1877, he was enabled to 
continue business without seeking a compro- 
mise with his creditors, he preferring instead 
to meet his obligations in full. Speaking of 
his earnest desire to preserve his good name, it 
is related by a close personal friend that, fear- 
ing his inability to meet the payments of a 
large order placed in London just previous to 
the above mentioned conflagration, he counter- 
manded it, but the London firm, instead of com- 
plying with his request, doubled the order and 
shipped it on their own responsibility. He 
was for some years an officer of Engine No. 5 
of the fire department. He was fond of ath- 
letic sports and out-of-door amusements, espe- 
cially fishing; and one of his many commend- 



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able characteristics was his close intimacy 
with his sons, whom, when they became young 
men, he regarded and treated as loving com- 
panions instead of exercising that parental 
authority so common to most fathers. A lib- 
eral-minded, conscientious Christian gentle- 
man, he contributed generously to all worthy 
objects of charity, and he was held in the 
highest esteem by all who knew him. He was 
an active member of St. John's Church. 
George Sylvester de Forest died April i8, 
1893. He married September 10, 1850, 
Anna M. Hall, daughter of James Hall, of 
Wilmot, N. S., and a sister of S. S. and the 
late D. H. Hall, of St. John. She died on 
February 16, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. De Forest 
are survived by their e'lght children, namely: 
Stephen S. , of St. John; Louis E., who is in 
the grocery business at McAdam Junction; 
Clarence W. and Harry W. , who succeeded to 
their father's business; Arthur F., a travelling- 
salesman; Frank H., formerly with W. H. 
Thorne & Co., St. John, who died July 27, 
1S99; Annie M. , wife of Charles Patterson, 
of St. John ; and Edith L. de Forest. 

Stephen Sneden de Forest, born July 27, 
1855, was educated in the public schools of 
St. John. At the age of fourteen he entered 
the employ of J. and W. F. Harrison, with 
whom he remained five years, at the end of 
which time he took a position in his father's 
store, where he continued until 1885. After 
that the firm of De Forest & Harrison, he 
having formed a copartnership with W. F. 
Harrison, carried on the wholesale grocery 
trade for three years, when it went out of 



business, and Mr. De Forest took the local 
agency for a London Fire Lisurance Com- 
pany, which he managed a short time. He 
then entered the employ of the wholesale 
grocery firm of Hall & Fairweather, and is 
now manager of the Hall & Fairweather Com- 
pany, Limited, which was organized January 
20, 1897. 

On June 5, 1878, Mr. Stephen S. de Forest 
was united in marriage with Miss Mary Emma 
Small, a native of St. John, daughter of the 
late Otis Small, who was at one time exten- 
sively engaged in the steamboat business both 
on the St. John River and the Bay of Fundy. 
They have had four children ; namely, Francis 
Small, Marjr Emma, George Sylvester, and 
William Harrison, who died in infancy. 

Mr. Stephen S. de Forest belongs to the St. 
Andrews Curling Club, and at present holds 
the championship, having made the highest 
score ever recorded in St. John. Ffe also be- 
longs to the St. George Society. He is active 
in religious affairs and a member of St. James 
Church, which he has represented in the Pro- 
vincial Synod. 

"ARRY WENMAN de FOREST, 
si.xth son of the late George S. de 
Forest, was born in St. John, N.B., 
Ma)- 29, 1863. He was reared in his native 
city, where also he was educated, his later 
studies being pursued at the school of Dr. 
E. Stone Wiggins. His first business experi- 
ence was obtained as clerk with Hall & P^air- 
weather, with whom he remained for ten 
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in business with his father, succeeding liim at 
his death, and subsequently, until the present 
time, carrying it on in company with his 
brother, Clarence W. 

He was married in April, 1892, to Miss 
Annie E. Wright, daughter of Captain George 
Wright, of Albert County. They have two 
children — George Wright and John Wright. 
Mr. de Forest is a member of St. John's 
Church, of which he is also a warden. 



OHN FLOOD, an efificient and enter- 
prising contractor and builder, of St. 
John, was born in that city in 1S55, 
son of Michael and Winifred (Ryan) Flood. 
His father, who was a native of Kildare, Ire- 
land, came to New Brunswick at the age of 
nineteen years. 

A mason by trade, Michael Flood was em- 
ployed in the construction of the E. & N. A. 
Railroad (now the I. C. R.). Subsecjuently, 
he engaged in business for himself in St. John 
as a contractor and builder, and erected many 
fine residences and public buildings, among 
them being the Victoria School (in 1876), the 
residence of the late Governor Boyd, the resi- 
dence of S. Jones, the residence of W. H. 
Thorne, the Sands Block on Prince William 
Street, and the London House on Market 
Square. He retired in 188S, having been en- 
gaged in business for a period of forty years. 
His wife, Winifred, whom he married in 
1840, was a native of Kings County, New 
Brunswick, and a daughter of Charles Ryan, 
who came to this country from Ireland. They 



were the parents of seven children, namely: 
Mary, the \wiie of Cornelius Gallagher, of St. 
John ; Margaret, the widow of the late John 
Nugent; Sarah, the wife of James Duke, a 
grocer of St. John; Catherine, the wife of An- 
drew Pauley, of St. John ; Patrick, a mason 
and builder, of Bangor, Me. ; John, the direct 
subject of this sketch; and Annie, the wife of 
Robert J. Richie, a grocer on Charlotte Street, 
St. John. 

John Flood grew to manhood and was edu- 
cated in his native city. At the age of eigh- 
teen years he began to learn the trade of mason 
and builder under his father, by whom, in 
1875, he was taken into partnership, the firm 
name then becoming M. Flood & Sons. For a 
period of twelve years, or until 1887, they did 
the leading business in the city. In that year 
Mr. Flood went to Fredericton, where he 
erected the government departmental building, 
this being one of the largest contracts of the 
kind ever completed in the Province. Return- 
ing, after its completion, to St. John, he con- 
tinued in business there, and has been thus 
successfully engaged up to the present time. 
Among the many prominent public buildings 
and private residences erected by him may be 
mentioned the following: the Union Club 
House, No. 3 Engine-house, Father Con- 
nolly's parsonage at Lower Cove, MacCaulay 
Bros. & Co. dry-goods store on King Street, 
the industrial school at Silver Falls, the resi- 
dence of Robert Lee, the residence of Charles 
E. Brackett at Duke, the residence of Robert 
Worden of St. John, and his own handsome 
residence. Mr. Flood's skill as a craftsman. 



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and his reliability as a man of business, may 
be inferred from the number and importance of 
his contracts, of which the above list indicates 
but a small portion. 

Mr. Flood's first wife, Mertina Toomey, 
whom he married in 1880, was a daughter of 
the late Humphrey Toomey, of Carleton, St. 
John. She died in 1882. Mr. Flood married 
for his second wife, February 10, 1891, Miss 
Elizabeth Nash, a daughter of John Nash, of 
Moncton. By this union there are five chil- 
dren — George, John, Charles, Harry, and 
Elizabeth. 

♦■♦■ ^ > 

kICHAEL GALLAGHER, of the 
firm of M. and H. Gallagher & 
Co., St. John, was born in the 
parish of Hampton, Kings County, N.B. , 
April 2, 1834, son of Henry and Alice (Riley) 
Gallagher. 

Henry Gallagher emigrated from County 
Tyrone, Ireland, about the year 1828, and set- 
tled upon a farm in Kings County, where he 
tilled the soil industriously for many years. 
Five years prior to his death he retired from 
active labor, and, coming to St. John, spent 
the last days of his life with his children. 
His family consisted of three sons and six 
daughters; namely, Catherine, Bridget, FTenry, 
Thomas, Margaret, Ellen, Michael, Mary Ann, 
and Alice. Catherine is the widow of John 
McCaffrey, late of St. John. Her only daugh- 
ter, Mary Ann, married James Kelley. 
Bridget is the widow of Edward Finnegan, late 
of .St. John, and has three sons — Edward, 
Henry, and Thomas J. Margaret married 



Thomas Mullaly, and died leaving one son, 
Joseph Mullaly. Ellen married John Warren 
(both deceased). Henry is a member of the 
firm of M. & H. Gallagher & Co. Alice is 
the wife of Michael Ryan, of the above con- 
cern, and has one son, Edward J. Ryan. 

Michael Gallagher was brought up on the 
homestead farm in Kings County. Locating 
in St. John about thirty-two years ago, he en- 
tered the grocery business in company with his 
brother Henry, establishing the firm of M. & 
H. Gallagher & Co., which occupies quarters 
at 34 Charlotte Street, and has long received a 
liberal share of patronage. Although pre- 
vented by business cares from giving much 
time to public affairs, he is serving with abil- 
ity upon the Slaughter House Commission. 
He takes a lively interest in the general wel- 
fare of the community, and belongs to the Irish 
Literary and Benevolent Society. 

In 1876 Mr. Gallagher was united in mar- 
riage with Mary Ann Carleton, who was born 
in St. John, daughter of James Carleton, a na- 
tive of Ireland. Prior to her marriage Mrs. 
Gallagher was a successful teacher in the pub- 
lic schools. 




HARLES LEWIS SMITH, a mem- 
ber of the Provincial Parliament of 
New Brunswick, is one of the lead- 
ing agriculturists of Woodstock. He was born 
January 23, 1853, on the farm which he now 
owns and occupies, and on which his father, 
William D. Smith, was born. Plis grand- 
father, Michael Smith, came with the Loyal- 
ist party to Woodstock, from Long Island, 




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N. Y., in 1783. Taking up a large tract of 
land, he improved tlie present homestead prop- 
erty, and carried on a very profitable business 
as lumberman and farmer. He acquired a good 
estate, consisting of several hundred acres, and 
and at his death gave to each of his children a 
farm. He was for a number of years Justice 
of the Peace. The maiden name of his wife 
was Phoebe Ketchum. 

William D. Smith spent his entire life on 
the old home farm, and was known throughout 
this section as one of the most thorough-going, 
capable, and enterprising farmers of the place. 
He was a member of the Church of England. 
His wife, Jane Sharp, was a daughter of Adam 
B. Sharp, a prominent farmer of Woodstock. 
Of their nine children eight grew to maturity, 
namely: Marian, wife of I. Hazen Freeman, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Elizabeth, who married 
Henry Allnutt, a nephew of the Rev. Newman 
Hall, and died, leaving one child, Alice, wife 
of Frederick Cookson, of Woodstock; Henry 
B. , also of Woodstock; Caroline, who became 
the wife of Alendo Mekeney, of Portland, Me., 
and died, leaving one daughter, Carrie, wife 
of Frank Upham, of Woodstock; Isabelle, wife 
of Ambrose Haley, of Houlton, Me. ; Charles 
Lewis, the special subject of this sketch ; 
Emily, wife of Jeremiah J. Hale, of Grafton, 
N. B. ; and Helen, wife of Wellington A. 
ffaley, of Wakefield, N.B. 

Charles L. Smith received a practical edu- 
cation in the grammar school, and grew to 
manhood on his father's farm. At the age of 
twenty-two years he assumed the entire man- 
agement of the homestead, and for twoscore 



years thereafter carried on general farming and 
dairying. He was a pioneer in the milk busi- 
ness in this part of the county, having started 
the first route going into Woodstock, and for 
several years did an extensive business in this 
line, keeping at times as many as forty-nine 
cows. He now confines his attention to the 
care of his land and stock; and, although he 
has but a small dairy, it is of unusual excel- 
lence, consisting of a herd of seven registered 
Jersey cows, headed by a superb bull of the 
same grade. He also has choice swine, some 
being pure-blooded Chesters and others York- 
shires. He is a good judge of stock, and was 
appointed by the government of New Bruns- 
wick as one of the commissioners to proceed 
to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to 
purchase pure-bred stock for the improvement 
of stock in New Brunswick. That was one of 
the most successful importations of stock ever 
made. Mr. Smith's farm contains between 
four hundred and five hundred acres of land, of 
which about one hundred and sixty are under 
cultivation. He raises large quantities of hay 
each year, and often sells as many as sixty tons 
in addition to what he uses himself. 

In politics Mr. Smith is a Liberal, and oc- 
cupies a place of prominence in the ranks of 
his party. In 1886 he was elected County 
Councillor, a position which he filled satisfac- 
torily six years, the last year being warden 
of the county. In 1892 he declined the 
nomination of his party for membership in the 
Provincial Parliament, but in 1895 he was 
elected for a term of four years. At the expi- 
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the House dissolved; and on February i8, 
1 899, he was again elected, and by a largely 
increased vote. He has served on the Con- 
tingent Committee, the Agricultural Commit- 
tee, and the Municipality Committee. 

Mr. Smith married Luella A., daughter of 
John McClary, of Houlton, Me., and they 
have five children, namely: Eva; P. Roy C. ; 
Arthur Wilmot and Albert Dwight, twins; 
and Harold S. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both 
members of the Methodist church, of which he 
is a trustee. 



OHN WILSON YOUNG SMITH, of 
the firm of F. P. Ried & Co., of Monc- 
ton, N.B., was born March 18, 1869, 
in Halifax, N. S., a son of Sir Albert J. 
Smith, late of Westmorland County. 

He is of New England ancestry, his great- 
grandfather, Bowen Smith, having been born 
and reared in that part of the United States. 
Loyal to the crown, he left the place of his 
birth on the breaking out of the war of 
independence of America, and with other 
prominent Loyalists of his time came to New 
]5runs\vick. Lie located first in St. John, and 
then removed to Shediac, where he successfully 
engaged in shiji-building until his death, when 
past .seventy years of age. His wife, Lizzie 
Lyons Smith, whom he married in St. John, 
bore him nine children, oT whom Lizzie, widow 
of the late Arthur Gilman, is the sole survivor. 
Thomas E. Smith, grandfatlier of John W. Y. 
Smith, was born in St. John, N.B., but was 
educated in Shediac, where his parents settled 
when he was quite young. For many years he 



carried on a thriving business as a general 
merchant, and as a farmer he was numbered 
among the most influential citizens of the 
town, and for several years he was a magis- 
trate. Politically, he was a Liberal, and he 
was an active member of the Church of Eng- 
land, to which all of his family belonged. He 
died at the advanced age of seventy-four years; 
and his wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca 
Beckworth, lived to the age of seventy-two 
years. Of their seven children, three are now 
living — Edward J., Cordelia, and Adelaide. 
Albert J., son of Thomas E. Smith, was 
born and reared in Shediac, N.B., and obtained 
his general education in New Brunswick. Lie 
subseqently read law, and after his admission 
to practice in the courts became one of the 
foremost barristers of his time. He also ob- 
tained a prominent place in the political arena, 
and for a number of years was a member of the 
Provincial House of Assembly and afterward 
of the Parliament of Canada. He was also 
Premier and Attorney-General of New Bruns- 
wick, and during the McKenzie administra- 
tion Minister of Marine for Canada. He was 
knighted by the crown, and was offered by the 
government, but declined, the positions of 
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and of 
New Brunswick, and likewise that of Chief 
Justice of the latter Province. He died in 
1S83, leaving an honorable record as a man, 
as a citizen, and as a public officer. On June 
II, 1868, he married Sarah M., daughter of 
John Wilson Young, of ITalifax, N. S. ; and 
their .son, John W. Y. Smith, the special sub- 
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John W. Y. Smith attended school in Que- 
bec for several years, and in 1891 graduated 
from Bishop's College in the Province of Que- 
bec. Very soon after he formed a partnership 
with Frederick P. Ried, and, becoming junior 
member of the firm with which he is still con- 
nected, established himself in business as an 
importer and wholesale dealer of groceries. 
His trade is very extensive and profitable. 
Mr. Smith has been successful in the sale of 
real estate, and has the care of the fine prop- 
erty left by his father. Among the stock com- 
panies in which he has more or less interest are 
the following: the Havelock Mineral Spring 
Water Company, in which he is a large stock- 
holder; the Moncton Manufacturing and 
Foundry Company, of which he is the vice- 
president and a director; the Moncton Street 
Railway Company, of which he is one of the 
directors; and various large coal mines in Penn- 
sylvania. Pie has been active in local affairs, 
and for four years was a member of the Provin- 
cial Assembly as a representative of Westmor- 
land County. 

On September 7, 1892, Mr. Smith married 
Cornelia D. Robinson, daughter of the late 
Major William B. Robinson, of St. John, 
N.B. They have one child, Marjorie, who 
was born in March, 1 894. Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith are members of the Church of England, 
and attend at St. George's Church, Moncton. 



^Thomas carleton allen, cierk 

e )\ of the Supreme Court, Clerk in Equity, 
Clerk of the Crown, and an ex-Mayor of 



Fredericton, was born in that city in Novem- 
ber, 1852. He is a son of the late Sir John 
Campbell and Margaret A. (Drury) Allen, the 
former of whom was for many years Chief 
Justice of New Brunswick. An extended 
account of this distinguished jurist will be 
found on another page of the Review. 

Thomas Carleton Allen attended the Fred- 
ericton Collegiate School until 1868, and, 
after completing his general studies at the 
Charlotte County Grammar School, he stud- 
ied law with Messrs. Botsford and Wetmore, 
of Fredericton, and with Messrs. Charles 
Duff and Jeremiah Harmon Travis, of St. 
John. He graduated from Harvard Univer- 
sity Eaw School with the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws, and later pursued a special course at the 
same institution. In October, 1874, he be- 
came an attorney, being admitted as a barrister 
the following year, and practised his profes- 
sion alone in P'redericton until 1878, when he 
removed to St. John and associated himself 
with W. B. Chandler under the firm name 
of Allen & Chandler, which firm continued 
in business until 1883. In April of that year 
he was appointed Clerk of the Pleas and Clerk 
in liquity, and has since occupied this respon- 
sible position. While in practice he was 
retained as counsel in many important cases. 
Mrs. Merritt, of New York, who contested the 
will of Charles Merritt, a case which involved 
a very large estate, retained him as associate 
counsel with the late C. A. Palmer, O.C. The 
case was finally settled by the attorneys after 
remaining in court for three years. He acted as 
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Court from 1879 to 1881. He was elected 
Mayor of Fredericton in 1890, 1891, and 1892, 
and filled the office to the general satisfaction 
of the citizens. He was appointed a Queen's 
Counsel by the government of New Brunswick 
in 1899. 

In December, 1878, Mr. Allen married a 
daughter of Judge Wetmore, of this city. He 
has three children: Charles H., who is about 
to enter the University of New Brunswick; 
Kenneth C, a pupil cf the high school; and 
Lenore Allen. 

Mr. Allen is a member of the Church of 
England, and has been a member of the 
Cathedral Chapter for two years. 



(JEREMIAH HARRISON, who for many 
years has been one of the leading busi- 
ness men of St. John, was born in Cam- 
bridge, Queens County, on April 17, 1826, 
son of the late Hon. Charles and Mary (Bur- 
pee) Harrison. His father was for many years 
a member of the Legislature from Queens 
County, and later, upon his removal to Mau- 
gerville, was a member of the Legislative 
Council. 

Mr. Harrison was educated in the schools 
of his native place and at a grammar school in 
Sunbury. He went to Newark, N.J., but after- 
ward, after some time spent there, he returned 
to St. John, and in 1850 and 185 i he built the 
first carriage factory erected in Portland. It 
was also the first steam carriage factory in the 
province. This he operated until 1856, when 
it was destroyed by fire. During that time 



he bought the first Singer sewing-machine 
ever brought into the province. After the fire 
he sold the business to Messrs. Price, Crothers, 
Shaw & Sayer, and in the following autumn 
he began the construction of the wharf known 
at that time as Portland Bridge. He deals not 
only in flour and feed, but in general groceries 
and provisions and West India goods. The 
firm, which consisted of Messrs. J. and W. F. 
Harrison until 1884, was one of the oldest 
established here, and carried on one of the 
largest trades in the city. Since that time 
Mr. Jeremiah Harrison has carried on the busi- 
ness on his own account. Aside from his 
mercantile business Mr. Harrison has been 
interested in various other affairs. He was 
one of the original stockholders in the New 
Brunswick Railroad, was a stockholder in the 
Spring Hill Mines, owner of a number of ves- 
sels, and part owner of many others. He was 
also one of the original stockholders of the 
Maritime Bank, of which he has been vice- 
president and one of the directors. During 
the great fire of 1877 he and his brother met 
with severe loss, and, although they have had 
reverses since, they have continued to do a 
prosperous business. 

Mr. Harrison was married in 1S59 to Julia, 
daughter of the Rev. Canon Harrison. Two 
children have blessed this union, namely : 
Annie B. , who is the widow of Daniel B. 
Lawson, of Liverpool, England; and Mary J. 
Mr. Harrison was formerly one of the school 
trustees and a vestryman of St. Luke's 
Church. He was also for many years a coun- 
sel in the Board of Trade. 




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(^>r LFRED AUGUSTUS STOCKTON, 
^ Ph.D., D.C.L., LL.D., O.C, mem- 
Vi.^ ber of the Provincial Parliament for 
the city and county of St. John, N. B., and a 
prominent resident of St. John, was born on 
November 2, 1842, at Studholm, Kings 
County, N. B. His father was William A. 
Stockton, of Sussex, Kings County, and his 
mother was Sarah, daughter of the late Robert 
Oldfield, who came to this country from 
Stockport, England. 

Dr. Stockton is descended on his paternal 
side from Richard Stockton, who emigrated 
from Cheshire, England, prior to November 
8, 1656, settled on Long Island, N. Y., where 
he remained for some lime, and subsequently 
removed to Burlington, N.J., where he be- 
came the grantee of extensive tracts of land, 
much of which is still owned by his descend- 
ants. His son Richard removed from Long 
Island to Princeton, N.J., and became the 
purchaser from William Penn of six thousand 
acres of land, of which Princeton is now 
nearly the centre. He died at Princeton in 
July, 1709, at an advanced age, leaving six 
sons — Richard, Samuel, Joseph, Robert, 
John, and Thomas. 

Richard Withani Stockton, son of Samuel, 
was born at Princeton, N.J., in 1733. He 
married December 3, 1753, Mary Hatfield, of 
Elizabeth, N.J., died May 8, 1801, and was 
buried at Sussex, Kings County, N.B. He 
served under the crown with the rank of 
Major during the American Revolution, and 
at the close of the war went with the Loyal- 
ists to New Brunswick. Richard Stockton, 



the signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
was a son of John, above named, and was 
therefore a first cousin of Richard Witham, 
the Loyalist. The latter left ten children, 
one of them a son, Andrew Hunter, great- 
grandfather of Alfred A. Stockton. 

Andrew Hunter Stockton served the crown 
in the war of the Revolution, with the rank of 
Lieutenant, and with other members of the 
family emigrated with the United Empire 
Loyalists in 1783 to St. John, then known 
as Parrtown. Here he married on April 4, 
1784, Hannah Lester. The ceremony was 
performed by the Hon. George Leonard, and 
was the first marriage to take place in Parr- 
town. Subsequently he removed to Sussex, 
Kings County, where extensive grants of land 
were made to him. He served as a member 
of the quorum. He was born on January 3, 
1760, died in May, 1821, and is buried at 
Sussex, Kings County, N. B. He left three 
sons and one daughter. 

His second son, Charles Witham Stockton, 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
born on April 4, 1787, and died on July 12, 
i86g. William A. Stockton, above named, 
second son of Charles Witham, died at Sussex 
on July 3, 1890, at the age of seventy-six. 
He was married to Sarah Oldfield on April 2, 
1840. 

Alfred A. Stockton was educated at the 
Academy and University of Mount Allison, 
Sackville, N.B., graduating from the Uni- 
versity in 1864 with the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts and as valedictorian of his class, and 
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from the same institution. In 1869 lie was 
graduated at Victoria University, Cobourg, 
Ont., with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
In 1883 he received the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy on examination from Illinois 
Wesleyan University. The following year he 
received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law 
from the University of Mount Allison and 
in 1887 that of Doctor of Laws in course from 
Victoria University. King's College, Wind- 
sor, N.S. , in June, 1895, conferred on him 
the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. After 
studying law with his uncle, the late C. W. 
Stockton, he was admitted to the bar of New 
Brunswick in Trinity term, 1868, and subse- 
quently was for some years senior member of 
the firm of A. A. & R. O. Stockton, of St. 
John. That firm was dissolved in 1887, since 
which time Dr. Stockton has practised law 
under his own name. 

As an advocate and a speaker Dr. Stockton 
takes high rank. Although actively engaged 
in the work of his profession and of public 
life, yet he has rendered valuable services to 
his profession by editing, in 1882, with very 
e.xtensive notes, "Berton's Reports of the Su- 
preme Court of New Brunswick." He pub- 
lished a work on Admiralty Law in 1894, 
containing the new rules of the court and a 
digest of all reported Canadian admiralty 
cases, with an introduction on general admi- 
ralty jurisdiction, and in 1898 a work on the 
"Monroe Doctrine" and other topics. Dr. 
Stockton was for some years an examiner for 
degrees at the University of Mount Allison 
in political economy and constitutional his- 



tory and in law at Victoria University. He 
is also lecturer in admiralty and shipping and 
in constitutional history and law in the Law 
School at St. John, N. B., connected with the 
University of King's College, Windsor, N.S. 
He was for some years a member of the Board 
of Regents of the University of Mount Allison 
and secretary of the board; president of the 
New Brunswick Historical Society; president 
of the St. John Law Society and of the Barris- 
ters' Society of New Brunswick; and he is a 
member of the Council of both of these socie- 
ties. He has been a member of the Council 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals from its organization, and legal 
adviser and prosecuting counsel and for a 
number of years Registrar of the Vice- 
admiralty Court of New Brunswick, also a 
director and corresponding secretary of the St. 
John Mechanics' Institute. 

In June, 1887, he was appointed by the 
government of New Brunswick an advisory 
and honorary member of the commission to 
report upon the amendment of the "Law and 
Practice and Constitution of the Courts of the 
Province." Dr. Stockton was opposed to the 
confederation of the Provinces under the terms 
of the Act of Union, but favored a union of 
the Maritime Provinces. He was brought up 
in the old school of New I^runswick Liberals, 
and after confederation supported the Liberal 
party in Dominion politics till 1891, when he 
broke with his party on the question of com- 
mercial union with the United States, holding 
that such a policy was hostile to the empire. 
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the Liberal Conservative party. He sup- 
ported manhood suffrage, and thought it might 
be expedient in the popular interest to elect 
the Lieutenant Governor of the different 
Provinces by the people of the Province. He 
does not favor the abolition of the Senate of 
Canada. He thinks that body is necessary as 
a check on hasty action in legislation in the 
House of Commons, but if any change is made 
in selection it might be by election for a 
specific term, either by a direct vote of the 
constituencies or by the Provincial Legislat- 
ures. He has always taken an active interest 
in public education, and has also frequently 
written for the press on different subjects. 
At one time he was one of the editors of the 
Maritime Montldy and again a corresponding 
editor of La Rcviic Critique, a legal publica- 
tion of Montreal, both of which have now 
ceased to exist. 

For a number of years Dr. Stockton took an 
active interest in military affairs, and at the 
time of the union in 1867 he held a commis- 
sion as Captain in the Provincial militia. 
He is a Past Master of the Masonic order and 
a member of the Grand Lodge of New Bruns- 
wick. He is prominently identified with the 
temperance reform movement, and is one of 
the trustees of Centenary Methodist Church in 
St. John, of which also he is a valued and 
efficient member. 

Dr. Stockton was married on September 5, 
1871, to Amelia E., second daughter of the 
Rev. Humphrey Pickard, D.D., of Sackville, 
N. B. Dr. Pickard was for over a quarter of 
a century president of the educational institu- 



tions at Sackville and one of the most promi- 
nent educators of the Maritime Provinces of 
Canada. 




n> 1 DOUGLAS AUSTIN, a promi- 
nent merchant and ship-owner of 
St. John, was born in Canning, 
Queens County, N.B., in 1830, son of Samuel 
and Ann (Marshall) Austin. His father was 
born in St. John in 1792; and his grandfather, 
Samuel Austin, Sr., who was a native of Vir- 
ginia, came to St. John with the Loyalists in 
1783, being the only one of six brothers who 
adhered to the crown. Upon settling here he 
engaged in building, which occupation he fol- 
lowed during his active years. He was a 
member of the Church of England. He mar- 
ried Eva Gabel, daughter of David Gabel, who 
was a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger- 
many. She was the mother of eleven children, 
of whom Samuel, Jr., was the eldest. Samuel 
Austin, Sr., was accidentally drowned in 1829. 
His wife survived him more than twenty years, 
and died in 1853, at the age of ninety-six. 
Samuel Austin, Jr., M. Douglas Austin's 
father, was brought up on a farm in Scotch- 
town, Queens County. He became a success- 
ful farmer, and also engaged in the lumber 
business. He attended the Church of Eng- 
land. His wife, Ann, was a daughter of John 
Marshal], a Loyalist, who came to St. John 
from Boston. They had three children, 
namely: M. Douglas, the subject of this 
sketch; Henry A., who was born July 11, 
1833; and Charlotte Maria, who married Will- 
iam Ross, of Woodstock, N. B. The father 



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died in 1842, and the mother died in 1875, 
aged seventy -nine. 

M. Douglas Austin resided on a farm until 
he was twenty years old, when he came to St. 
John and entered the.employ of Robert Robert- 
son in the general mercantile business. He 
remained there until 1855, when he established 
his present business on Robertson's Wharf, 
Indiantown. His brother, Henry A., was as- 
sociated with him for thirteen years. After 
the withdrawal of his brother from the firm, 
Mr. M. Douglas Austin carried on the enter- 
prise alone for some years, but his son is now 
associated with him. He is largely interested 
in shipping and the West India trade, and is 
one of the most successful merchants of St. 
John. 

In 1862 Mr. Austin was united in marriage 
with Miss Phebe C. Robertson, daughter of 
Robert Robertson, who emigrated from Perth- 
shire, Scotland, in 181 8, and was a prominent 
merchant in St. John until 1894, when he re- 
tired from active business pursuits. They 
have one son, Marshall D., who was born in 
1868. 

Mr. Austin was a member of the Portland 
City Council, and belongs to Union Lodge, 
F. & A. M. He attends the Methodist 
church. 




DWARD VVINSLOW MILLICR, for 
many years a well-known barrister- 
at-law in Frcdericton, his native city, was born 
on October 7, 1822, son of Pxlward Winslow 
and Mary (Winslow) Miller, llis paternal 
grandfather, Stephen Miller, who was born in 



Massachusetts in 1727, was the first of the 
family to settle in New Brunswick. Stephen 
Miller married April 20, 1763, Hannah Dyer, 
daughter of William and Hannah (Howland) 
Dyer and step-daughter of Edward Winslow, 
who married Mrs. Dyer after the death of her 
first husband. Their children were: Penel- 
ope, born in 1764; George, born in 1765; 
Stephen, born in 1767; Sarah, born in 1770; 
Elizabeth Kent, born in 1772; Edward Wins- 
low, born at Milton, March 8, 1773; Samuel, 
born in 1775; Hannah Winslow, born in 
1777; and Lucy Ann, born in 1779. 

Edward Winslow Miller, first, was the si.xth 
child of Stephen and Hannah (Dyer) Miller. 
He accompanied his parents to New Bruns- 
wick, where he grew to manhood, and spent 
his active life. For more than thirty years 
he was High Sheriff of York County. He 
was a member of the Church of England. He 
died in Fredericton, July 22, 1847. His 
wife, Mary, whom he married December 14, 
1801, died January 15, 1843, aged sixty-four 
years. She was the eldest daughter of the 
Hon. Edward Winslow. Her father was a 
lineal descendant of the distinguished "May- 
flower" Pilgrim and sometime Governor of 
the Plymouth Colony, whose name he bore. 
Mrs. Mary Winslow Miller was the mother 
of ten children — Ann, Mary Elizabeth, Cath- 
erine Lutwych, Hannah, Harris William, 
Charles William, George Wentworth, Stephen, 
Mary Ann lilizabeth, and Edward Winslow 
(second). (^nly three of these grew to matu- 
rity, namely: Stephen, who was a prominent 
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both, who married Sir James Carter; and Ed- 
ward Winslow, second. 

Samael Miller, a brother of Edward Winslow 
Miller (first), was a well-known and distin- 
guished officer in the American army. In 
command of the Marines, he played an im- 
portant part in the War of 1812 and was 
severely wounded. Samuel died at Philadel- 
phia at the age of eighty-one from a disease 
contracted in the Florida war. 

Edward Winslow Miller, second, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, completed his education at 
King's College, now the University of New 
Brunswick, and was a student under David 
Shanks Kerr. After finishing his law studies 
and becoming a barrister, he practised his 
profession in Fredericton for the rest of his 
life. As a lawyer he displayed a solicitude 
for protecting the interests of his clients 
which gained their esteem and confidence. In 
politics he was a Conservative. 

Mr. Miller married on August 6, 1851, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Justin Spahnn. Her 
father was a native of Chaux-de-Fonds, Can- 
ton Neuchatel, Switzerland, and a jeweller by 
trade, \yhen he was si.xteen years old he 
came to America, and, after living two years 
in Philadelphia, settled in Fredericton, where 
he successfully conducted business for many 
years, or until his death, which occurred in 
1856. His wife's name was Elizabeth McPher- 
son, and she was a native of Scotland. Mr. and 
Mrs. Miller became the parents of three chil- 
dren, two of whom died in infancy, namely: 
Mary Winslow Miller, who was born May 19, 
1852, and died August 15, 1852; Edward 



Winslow Miller, born April tg, 1853, died 
April 22, 1853. 

Edward Winslow Miller was a member of 
Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M., and had advanced 
in the order to the Royal Arch degree. He 
was a member of the Church of England. 
He died October 22, 1869, leaving Mrs. 
Miller and one son, George Spahnn, who was 
born October 20, 1855, and died October i, 
1886. George Spahnn Miller was educated at 
the Collegiate School, Fredericton, and was a 
well-known accountant. At the time of his 
death he was accountant and paymaster on the 
Canada Eastern. 




RANK LINCOLN KENNEY, M.D., 
s St. John West, was born in St. John, 
July 4, 1864, son of Andrew and Margaretta 
(Smith) Kenney. He is a grandson of Isaac 
Kenney, a native of Nova Scotia, and the son 
of a Loyalist, who settled in Barrington, N. S. 
Isaac Kenney married Lydia Covell. 

Andrew Kenney, son of Isaac and Lydia, was 
born in Barrington, N. S. He was a sea captain, 
and in the pursuit of his calling visited nearly 
all the maritime countries of the world. In 1845 
he settled in St. John, where he resided until 
his death, in 1S78, at the age of si.xty-two 
years. His wife, Margaretta, died on Septem- 
ber 17, 1893, at the age of seventy-three 
years. They were the parents of the follow- 
ing children: Mary Pllinur, wife of Thomas 
Vickery; Andrew Freeman, a resident of St. 
John ; Frances Jane, widow of Charles Hugh 
Hanaford ; Eliza Alice, who married William 



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Smith, of St. John, and is now deceased; 
Lydia Ann, wife of G. N. Barnaby, of Bridge- 
town, N. S. ; Margaretta Alberta, wife of 
E. H. Israel, of Boston, Mass. ; Edmund 
Doane, now deceased; Ernest Alfred, also de- 
ceased; Edith Kate, wife of F. N. Beattie, of 
Boston, Mass.; and Frank L. , whose name 
begins this sketch. Captain Kenney was a 
Free Mason, and he and his wife were both 
members of the Methodist church. 

Frank Lincoln Kenney received his general 
education in the St. John Grammar School and 
at the University of New Brunswick, where he 
graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1884. He sub- 
sequently studied medicine at McGill Uni- 
versity, from which he received the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine in 1S88. For some time 
he was superintendent of the General Public 
Hospital. In 1S89 he located in Carleton, 
where he has since built up a successful practice. 

He was married February 11, 1895, to Miss 
Edith R. Peters, a daughter of Dr. Martin 
H. Peters. (See sketch of Hurd Peters on 
another page of this volume.) Dr. Kenney 
is a member of the Dominion, Maritime, and 
New Brunswick Medical Societies, the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the 
P'orcstcrs, and is on the staff of the General 
Public Hospital. He belongs to the Church 
of England. 

iHARLES WILLIAM SEGEE, a well- 
known contractor and builder of St. 
(ihn, was born in that city in 1847. 
His parents were James William and Henrietta 
Wallop (Laskey) Segee, the former of whom 




was born in P>edericton in 1818. His great- 
grandfather, William Segee, came from Eng- 
land with a regiment, and served as an officer 
in the Royal army during the Revolutionary 
War. Settling in Fredericton after the close 
of hostilities, he engaged in navigating the 
St. John River, owning and commanding the 
first sloop to carry passengers on this water- 
way, and also the first steamboat, the old 
"John Ward." He engaged in ship-building 
to some extent, and a bark launched by him at 
Fredericton was despatched to Ireland for the 
purpose of transporting a party of emigrants 
to New Brunswick. He continued in busi- 
ness on the river until 1854, when he retired 
and was succeeded by his son Charles. The 
Hazen House, located about three miles below 
the city, was erected by him. He died in 
Fredericton at an advanced age. His family 
consisted of five sons — ^ Thomas, James, Will- 
iam, Joseph, and Charles. James Segee, Mr. 
Segee's grandfather, who was a farmer, mar- 
ried a Miss McCarty, who came to New 
Brunswick in 1783, when she was twelve years 
old. Their children were: James William, 
Mary Ann, and Sarah. Mary Ann married 
Captain Belyea, and resided in P'ngland, 
where she died in 1890. Sarah married, and 
is no longer living. James Segee died at 
about forty-five years of age, and his wife died 
in 1846. 

James \Villiani Segee, Charles W. Segee's 
father, resided in Fredericton until he was 
si.xteen 3'ears old, when the family removed to 
St. John, where after his father's death his 
mother taught school. At the age of eighteen 




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he engaged in boating on tlie river, in the 
employ of Ranlcin & Pollock:, and advanced 
until he became master of the "Maiden Trans- 
it" and the "Dott."' He was mate of the 
"Conqueror" when she was sunk. During 
his later years he manufactured patent medi- 
cine, and became well known throughout the 
province. His wife, Henrietta, whom he 
married in 1843, was a native of Long Reach, 
Kings County, and daughter of Jacob Laskey, 
who came from the States after the Revolu- 
tionary War. James William Segee was the 
father of nine children, namely: Murray 
James, who died at tlie age of five years; 
Charles William, the subject of this sketch; 
John Alfred, of St. John; James Ensley, of 
New Hampstead; George Allen, who died in 
Boston at the age of thirty-six years; Mur- 
ray Hartley, who died in 1885 at twenty 
years of age; Henrietta, who died in 1888 
at thirty-five; Matilda, whose death occurred 
in 1861; and Emma, who married William 
Marshall, of St. John. The father died at 
the age of seventy-three in 1891. The mother 
is still living, and retains much of her former 
mental and physical vigor. 

Charles William Segee was educated in the 
schools of St. John. At the age of sixteen 
he began to serve an apprenticeship of four 
years at the carriage manufacturing trade with 
Jacob Bacon, of Carleton. At the age of eigh- 
teen he enlisted in Peters Battery, organized 
to serve in the expected Fenian outbreak. In 
1869 he started in business for himself in St. 
John as a contractor and builder, and this oc- 
cupation he has since followed with the ex- 



ception of the years 1880 and 1881, which he 
spent in New York City. 

In 1870 Mr. Segee married Miss Charlotte 
Isabelle Warden, a native of Queens County 
and daughter of Captain Isaac Warden, who 
came from Nova Scotia and was of Loyalist 
descent. Mr. and Mrs. Segee have had five 
children, namely: Lillian Ethel, wife of 
G. E. Titus, of St. John; William Allen 
.Segee, who married Miss Julia Ramsay, and 
is residing in St. John; Charles Walter, who 
died in 1881, aged ten months; Laura I., who 
died on Christmas Eve, 1898; and Charles 
Stanley Segee. 

Mr. Segee is a member of Peerless Lodge, 
I. O. O. F. ; the luicampment and the Can- 
ton ; also of the Temple of Honor, the Good 
Templars, Sons of Temperance, and the In- 
dependent Order of Foresters. Mrs. Segee 
belongs to the Good Templars and the Lodge 
of Rebeccas. The family attend the Water- 
loo Street Baptist Church. 




N. ROBERT J. RITCHIE, O.C, 
Police Magistrate, and Judge of the 
City Court, St. John, was born in 
that city October 12, 1843, son of Marmaduke 
and Catherine (Hunter) Ritchie. 

Marmaduke Ritchie was born in Belfast, 
Ireland, in 181 1. Coming to New Brunswick 
in 1S32, he resided in St. John until his death, 
which occurred in 1887. His wife, Cath- 
erine, whom he married in 1837, died in 1897. 
She was a daughter of P^rancis Hunter, who 
came from Kings County, Ireland, in 1819, 



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the year in which she was born, and settled 
upon a farm in St. John County. 

Robert J. Ritchie obtained his early educa- 
tion at the .St. John Grammar School and 
Catholic Seminary. In 1861 he began the 
study of law with the late John G. Campbell, 
O. C. , was admitted an attorney in 1865, and 
as a barrister in 1866. Immediately entering 
into the practice of his profession, he conducted 
a profitable general law business. In 1878 he 
was elected as an independent to represent St. 
John in the Provincial Assembly, and was the 
successful candidate of the Liberal party for 
the same position in 1882. In the following- 
year as Solicitor General he was re-elected by 
acclamation, and at tine general election in 
1886 he was again elected on the same ticket. 
He was a member of the Blair administration, 
in which he admirably filled the office of 
Solicitor General from 1883 to 1889, and in 
the latter year he accepted the appointment of 
Police Magistrate and Judge of the City Court 
of St. John. He received his appointment as 
Queen's Counsel from the Conservative 
Government. 

In September, 1877, Judge Ritchie married 
Mary Short, daughter of John Short, of St. 
Stephens, N.B. , and a descendant of north of 
Ireland ancestry. They have one son, Ed- 
mund Short Ritchie. Judge Ritchie has 
served as president of the Irish Friendly So- 
ciety, the executive chair of which his father 
once occupied, and was also president of the 
Union Club. He is a member of the St. John 
School Board, the Lunatic Asylum Commit- 
tee, and the governing board of the Industrial 



School for Boys; is director of the Plorticult- 
ural Society, and vice-president of the Catholic 
Temperance Society of America. 




CiT)! ENRY A. AUSTIN, manager of the 
New York Life Insurance Company 
for the Province of New Brunswick, 
was born in Canning, Queens County, July 11, 
1833. His parents were Samuel and Ann 
(Marshall) Austin, the former of whom was 
born in St. John in 1792. 

His grandfather, Samuel Austin, Sr. , who 
was a native of Virginia, and was of English 
ancestry, came from New York with the Loyal- 
ists in 1783, followed the occupation of a 
builder here for many years, and was accident- 
ally drowned in 1829. He was a member of 
the Church of England. He married Eva 
Gabel, daughter of David Gabel, who was a 
native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. 
Eleven children were born of this union, Sam- 
uel, Henry A. Austin's father, being among 
the older ones. Mrs. Eva Gabel Austin lived 
to the advanced age of ninety-six years. 

Samuel Austin, Jr., was brought up to farm 
life in Scotchtown, Queens County, and was 
a prosperous farmer and lumberman. He died 
in 1842, and was survived by his wife, Ann, 
whom he married in 1S28, and their three 
children — M. Douglas, Henry A., and Char- 
lotte Maria. M. Douglas Austin is a prosper- 
ous merchant of St. John. Charlotte Maria 
was the wife of William Ross, of Woodstock, 
N.B. She died in 1853. The mother died 
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ter of John Marshall, who came from Boston 
with the Loyalists. His parents came to 
America from Glasgow, Scotland. 

Henry A. Austin obtained his education in 
the common schools of his native town and at 
the Sackville Academy. Coming to St. John 
in 1S54, he entered the employ of Hastings 
Brothers as a clerk in the dry-goods business. 
He remained there eight years, and at the ex- 
piration of that time he went to Indiantown, 
where he was associated with his brother, 
M. D. Austin, in the general merchandise and 
shipping business. In 1877 he was obliged to 
withdraw from this firm on account of ill- 
health, and for the ne.\t four years was unable 
to attend to business. From 1881 to 1884 he 
was engaged in a real estate and mercantile 
enterprise in Manitoba, but a rebellion in that 
country caused a general depression in busi- 
ness, and Mr. Austin returned to St. John. 
He then became manager of the New York 
Life Insurance Company for the Province of 
New Brunswick, and has built up a large busi- 
ness in that line. 

In 1876 Mr. Austin was joined in marriage 
with Miss Amelia R. Eaton, daughter of the 
late Aaron Eaton, who for many years was one 
of the leading business men of St, John. 
They have had two children born to them, 
Edna Laura and Ralph Waldo Austin. The 
latter is in the employ of W. H. Thome & Co., 
of St. John. 

Mr. Austin is prominent in the Masonic 
order, and has advanced to the Commandery. 
-He was one of the organizers of the lodge of 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Port- 



land, and was its first presiding otflcer, was for 
many years a member of the Sons of Temper- 
ance, and a trustee of the Centenary Methodist 
Church. He was a member of the Provincial 
Assembly from 1874 to 1878. 



/^^EORGE GODFREY GILBERT, 
\F^J_ Q. C. , one of the most able lawyers 
of St. John, was born in that city, October g, 
1826, son of Henry and Eliza (Simonds) Gil- 
bert. His first ancestor on the paternal side 
of whom there is any authentic record was 
John Gilbert, an Englishman, who settled at 
Dorchester, Mass., about 1630. In 1637 li^ 
removed to Taunton, Mass., where he died be- 
tween May, 1654, and June, 1657. His will 
mentions other children, one a son Giles. 
His son Thomas returned to England in 1653. 
He was married, and he left his family in 
Taunton. Thomas Gilbert, second, son of 
Thomas, and grandson of John, married Anna 
Blake, of Milton, Mass., who bore him eight 
children. One of these. Captain Nathaniel 
Gilbert, the ne.xt in line, married Hannah 
Bradford, daughter of Samuel Bradford, of 
Du.xbury, Mass. (a grandson of Governor Will- 
iam Bradford), and had a family of seven chil- 
dren. 

Thomas Gilbert, third, son of Captain Na- 
thaniel and Hannah (Bradford) Gilbert, was 
born in Berkeley, Mass., and lived for some 
time at Assonet. He served as a Colonel in 
the British army, and in 1783 he came with 
other Loyalists to New Brunswick, receiving a 
grant of land at St. Mary's Bay. He later re- 



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moved to Gagetown, N. B., and lived to an ad- 
vanced age. Colonel Thomas Gilbert, who 
was the great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, married Mary Godfrey. He had three 
sons and three daughters. One of the latter, 
Deborah, married Samuel Scovil, of Connecti- 
cut, and she died in 1839. The sons were 
Major Thomas, Perez, and Bradford. Major 
Thomas Gilbert, who lived in Sunbury County, 
and died at the age of seventy-three, married a 
Miss Tisdale. His son, Thomas Nathaniel, 
had several children, one of whom, Humphrey, 
went to Dorchester, N. B. Perez. Gilbert, who 
resided at the homestead in Gagetown, had one 
son, Thomas, fourth, who was a member of the 
Assembly and the legislative Council. 
Thomas, fourth, had a son, Samuel Henry 
Gilbert, who was also a member of the Assem- 
bly. Samuel Henry had two sons, one of 
whom died young, and the other went to Mich- 
igan. 

Bradford Gilbert, George G. Gilbert's grand- 
father, was born in Massachusetts, April 27, 
1746. He was an early settler in St. John, 
where he carried on mercantile business as a 
member of the firm of Gilbert & Hanford, and 
was a member of the Assembly in 1796. He 
died January 16, 18 14. His first wife, whom 
he married previous to settling in New Bruns- 
wick, was Mary Tisdale, who died May 23, 
1792. The children of that union were Henry 
and Thomas. Bradford Gilbert married for 
his second wife Ann Waters, who bore him 
two sons: William James, who was born in 
1794, and died November 15, 1863; and 
George Godfrey, first, born August 17, 1797. 



Henry Gilbert, father of the subject of this 
sketch, engaged in mercantile pursuits at the 
age of fifteen, and, becoming a prosperous mer- 
chant, he continued in business until 1847, 
when he retired. He died July 11, 1869. 
Henry Gilbert married Eliza Simonds, young- 
est daughter of James Simonds. She was born 
in 1792, and died on July 18, 1854, having 
been the mother of seven children, namely: 
Bradford Simonds, born April 12, 1814, who 
was a merchant in this city, and died in 1872; 
Sophia, born January 16, 1S16, who married 
the Rev. Cannon Scovil; Henry, born Febru- 
ary 22, 1818, who married Lucy A. Caldwell, 
and resides in Hampton, Kings County, N. B. ; 
Thomas, born July 31, 1820; James S. , born 
in April, 1822; George G., the subject of this 
sketch; and Elizabeth, widow of Henry W. 
Wilson. Bradford S. Gilbert married Ann 
Hanford, and had one daughter, Eliza 
Simonds. 

[Sketches of Thomas and James S. Gilbert 
will be found elsewhere in the Review.] 

George Godfrey Gilbert received his Bach- 
elor's degree at King's College, Fredericton, 
and that of Bachelor of Law at Harvard Uni- 
versity, from which he graduated in 1848. 
Commencing the practice of law in July of 
that year, he was later appointed Queen's 
Counsel, and has long enjo}'ed distinction in 
the legal profession of this Province. 

In 1858 he was joined in marriage with 
Sarah, daughter of William Hammond, for- 
nierl}' a merchant of this city. Mr. George 
G. Gilbert's children are: Edith E. ; Mabel 
S. ; Llenry; George, an attorney residing in 




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Bathurst, N. B. ; Florence; and Walter Gil- 
bert. Henry and Walter are engaged in mer- 
cantile business at Rothsay, Kings County. 



(^OHN A. LINDSAY, of the firm of 
J. A. & R. J. Lindsa}', dealers in hard- 
ware at Woodstock, N. B., was born in 
that town, January 26, 1S51, a son of the Hon. 
W^illiam Lindsay and the descendant of a fam- 
ily long prominent in the annals of Scotland. 

During the reign of Robert II. of Scotland, 
A.D. 1371, one Sir Alexander Lindsay attacked 
and put to the sword an English ship's crew 
that had made a landing in Scotland above 
Queen's Ferry. In the reign of Robert III., 
1390, Sir David Lindsay, of Glenesk, was 
wounded in an engagement against Duncan 
Stewart, son of Wolf, of Badenoch, who was 
brother of the king. He challenged Lord 
Wells, of England, and defeated him, but gen- 
erously gave him his life. In this reign Sir 
William Lindsay, of Rossie, also appeared on 
the scene of action. About the middle of the 
thirteenth century there was a famous Alex- 
ander Lindsay, son of the p]arl of Crawford 
and Chief Justice of Scotland, a man of fero- 
cious habits and great ambition. From the 
length and bushiness of his beard he was 
called the "Tiger" and "Earl Beardy. " 
Upon the death of his father he succeeded to 
the earldom of Crawford. Having joined the 
Earl of Ross in rebellion against James II., 
he was defeated by the Earl of Huntley near 
Brechin. His estate was confiscated by the 
crown, and his title withdrawn, he having 



been attainted; but both were restored him 
just before his death. John Lindsay, his 
brother, fell at the battle of Brechin. 

David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, in the 
reign of James HI., a.d. 1460, was sometimes 
styled by historians Earl of Lindsay, Provost 
of Linchden. In this reign old Lord Lindsay, 
of the Byers, commanded a regular force of 
three thousand foot and one thousand horse, 
and presented a magnificent war steed to the 
king. Another Lord Lindsay, of the Byers, 
remonstrated with James IV. at Flodden 
against permitting Lord Swesey to cross the 
Till. In the reign of James V., Sir David 
Lindsay, of the Mount, "the bold and intrepid 
Lindsay," a poet, went as one of an embassy 
to Brussels, to make a commercial treaty for 
one hundred years between Scotland and the 
Netherlands. In the same reign there flour- 
ished an Alexander Lindsay, a skilful pilot 
and hydrographer, whose observations and 
charts remain until this day. In the reign of 
the unfortunate Mary, David Lindsay, master 
of Crawford, eldest son of the Earl of Craw- 
ford, celebrated the festivities of his marriage 
with the daughter of Cardinal Beaton with 
great magnificence. During this reign the 
venerable Lord Lindsay supported the Refor- 
mation; and his successor, the Earl of Lind- 
say, assisted in the taking off of Rizzio. He 
was afterward pardoned, and made cpiite a 
figure during the remainder of that reign. It 
was to this nobleman, so devoted to Scotland, 
that Mary, who hated him for his Protestant- 
ism and patriotism, said, when contrasting 
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patriot (both were in the royal presence), 
"You, my Lord of Lindsay, the smoother, 
though deeper, villain!" In the reign of 
Queen Elizabeth, James Lindsay, younger son 
of the Earl of Crawford, went to Ireland with 
his regiment, and there died. He was the 
founder of the Irish house of that name. He 
had several sons, one of whom, Thomas, was a 
large tenant farmer in County Fermanagh, 
Ireland, and whose grandson, Alexander Lind- 
say, was the grandfather of John A. Lindsay, 
the special subject of this sketch. 

Alexander Lindsay was born in County 
Fermanagh, Ireland, June 5, 17S1, and in 
1820 emigrated to America. For a few years 
he lived in Bath, Me., where he had the 
charge of loading ships. Coming from there 
to New Brunswick, he settled in that part of 
the parish of Wakefield that is called Lindsay 
in honor of his family, and there remained 
until his death in 1878, at the venerable age 
of ninety-seven years. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Elizabeth Hetherington, 
died, aged sixty-five years, in 1S59, leaving a 
large family of children. 

The Hon. William Lindsay was born Au- 
gust 3, 1S13, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. 
He served an apprenticeship at the trade of a 
saddler and harness-maker, and in 1835 began 
following his trade in Woodstock. In 1837 
he opened a saddler's shop, and to his stock of 
leather goods subsecjucntly added a line of 
hardware. In the course of a few years he 
closed out the harness department of liis store, 
but continued the hardware trade until 1892, 
when he retired from active pursuits. A man 



of ability, he was a leader in the Liberal Con- 
servative party. He sat in the first County 
Council of Carleton County, 1S52, and was for 
twenty-one years a member of the Provincial 
Parliament, 1 861-1882, serving during the 
time in both branches of the House. Fie was 
at one time Surveyor-general, and was likewise 
a member of the Town Council. He married 
Harriet N. , daughter of Stephen Parsons, of 
Woodstock, N. B. Of their twelve children 
four survive: Alexander G., of Highlands, 
Carleton County ; John A. ; Robert J. ; and 
Alice, wife of Henry Wilkinson, of Bloom- 
field, N.B. Both parents were members of 
the Methodist church, and the father was a 
member of the Quarterly Board. 

John A. Lindsay was reared and educated in 
Woodstock. When twenty-three years of age 
he went to the North-west Territories v'm 
Winnipeg, where he served six years on the 
North-west Mounted Police. Returning to 
Woodstock in 1879, he entered his father's 
store; and in 1892, when his father retired, he 
and his brother, Robert J. Lindsay, took the 
entire business, which has since been most 
successfully managed under the present firm 
name of J. A. & R. J. Lindsay. Mr. Lind- 
say is a Conservative in politics; and he takes 
an active interest in the welfare of the town, 
county, and province. He was a member of 
the Town Council in 1S93, and in 1897-98 
and 1895-97 served in the County Council. 
Fraternall)', he is a member of Woodstock 
Lodge, No. II, A. F. & A. M. ; of Woodstock 
Chapter, R. A. M. ; and of Court Regina, No. 
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secretary since 1890. He is also connected 
with the Orange Association, being a member 
of the Grand, County, Royal Scarlet and Pri- 
mary Lodges. He is a member of both the 
Methodist church and of the Quarterly Board. 

]\Ir. Lindsay married Cedelia A., daughter 
of Daniel Jones, of Hodgdon, Me. ; and they 
have one son, John H. Lindsay. 




NEIL BROTHERS, of the City 
Market, constitute one of the best 
known and most reliable business 
firms in St. John. The partners are John and 
Daniel J. O'Neil, sons of James and Johannah 
(O'Sullivan) O'Neil. John was born in Ire- 
land in 1846, and Daniel in St. John in 1854. 
James O'Neil and his wife were natives of 
County Cork, Ireland, and came to this coun- 
try in 1849. They reared six children, 
namely : Patrick, who died at the age of thirty- 
five years; Matthew, who is now retired from 
business and resides in St. John ; Mary, who 
is the wife of James Casey, of London, Eng- 
land ; Catherine, who is the wife of Peter 
Clark, of Boston, Mass. ; John; and Daniel J. 
The father was a stone-mason, and worked at 
his trade in St. John. In 1S54 he was at- 
tacked with cholera, which terminated fatally. 
The mother died in 1873, at the age of fifty- 
eight. 

John O'Neil was three years old when his 
parents settled in St. John. He was educated 
in the public schools, and after leaving school 
he entered the employ of James Driscoll as 



clerk in a grocery, and remained there until he 
became associated with his brothers. The 
business of O'Neil Brothers was established in 
1868 by Patrick O'Neil; and at his death, in 
1877, it came under the management of his 
three brothers, Matthew, John, and Daniel. 
In 1890 Matthew retired, and since then the 
present partners have carried it on. The 
house is one of the oldest of its kind in the 
vicinity, and through all the years since its 
organization it has borne an unimpeachable 
record for fair dealing and promptness. Mr. 
John O'Neil was married in 1876 to Mary 
Hayes, daughter of James Hayes, of this city. 
One child born of this union died in infancy. 
Mrs. Mary H. O'Neil died in 1877. Mr. 
O'Neil was again married in October, 1879, 
his bride being Catherine, daughter of Law- 
rence McGill, a native of St. John. Of this 
union eight children have been born; namely, 
Henry J., Arthur P., John F. , James H., 
Gerald, lirnest, Florence, and Catherine. 
Mr. John O'Neil is a member of the I. L. and 
B. Society. He has been for some time a 
Justice of the Peace. 

Daniel O'Neil graduated from the Catholic 
High School in St. John under Professor 
Anderson in 1870. Pie began his working 
life in his brother's store, and has since contin- 
ued in the business as above stated. He was 
married in 1878 to Ellen Clarke, daughter of 
Captain John Clarke. She was born in Green 
Castle, Newry, Ireland, and came to this coun- 
try when three years of age. Of this marriage 
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Clark, John Joseph, Daniel Roy, Matthew 
Louis, Margaret, Charles Patrick, Kate F., 
and Evelyn. Except Margaret, who died at 
the age of thirteen, all are living. Mr. Daniel 
J. O'Neil is a member of the L L. and B. So- 
ciety, and of the C. M. B. A. 



{^OHN McMillan, the well-known 
publisher and stationer of St. John, 
N.B., was born on November 9, 1833, 
son of James and Rachel Griscom (Murray) 
McMillan. He is a grandson of John Mc- 
Millan, first, who was born in Ballymena, 
near Belfast, Ireland, of Scotch parentage, 
and who came to St. John in 1822 and estab- 
lished the business which is still continued 
under the firm name of J. & A. McMillan. 
The first John McMillan, who died on Febru- 
ary 5, 1847, at the age of eighty-six, had by 
a second marriage four sons: David, who died 
in 1846; James, above named, who died Feb- 
ruary 17, 1886; Henry, who studied law and 
subsequently went to the East Indies, date of 
death not known; and Alexander, who died in 
1849. 

The business established by the original 
John McMillan was conducted by him until 
his retirement in 1841. His son David suc- 
ceeded to the business, and carried it on until 
1845, when it passed into the hands of James 
and Alexander, who conducted it under the 
style of J. & A. McMillan. George W. 
Whitney was admitted to partnership in 1852, 
the old firm name of J. & A. McMillan being 
retained. A few years after the business was 



started a bookbindery was added, and later, in 
1845, a printing office. John McMillan, the 
subject of this sketch, has been connected 
with the business since May, 1866. As pub- 
lishers, booksellers, and stationers, the firm 
of J. & A. McMillan have large trade, both 
wholesale and retail. 

Mr. McMillan was married on April 14, 
1862, to Dora Jack, the second daughter of 
the late Adam Jack. Of this union the fol- 
lowing-named eight children have been born: 
Dora, now deceased; Susan R. ; James; 
Florence Murray ; Rachael Grace; Alexander; 
Mary Lawrence; and Louisa Marjorie. Mr. 
McMillan is Registrar of Probate of St. John 
City and County, having been appointed De- 
cember 22, 1894. 




REDERIC C. COLWELL, a leading 
is confectioner of St. John, vice-president 
of the F. C. Colwell Candy Company, 
Limited, was born in Jemseg, Queens County, 
N.B., August 19, 1859, son of Joseph H. D. 
and Emma (Hatfield) Colwell. 

He is a great-grandson of Lieutenant John 
Colwell, a native of Scotland, who, going to 
Ireland, there joined the British army for ser- 
vice in America in the Revolutionary War. 
During the progress of that struggle Lieuten- 
ant Colwell was wounded in the forehead by a 
musket ball, which lodged in his head and 
could not be extracted. A silver tube or plate 
was inserted in the wound by the surgeons in 
such a manner that the wound was invisible, 
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came to New Brunswick with the Loyalists in 
1783 and settled on the west side of St. John 
River, at the locality now known as Cam- 
bridge, Queens County, or Lower Cambridge. 
Lieutenant Colwell was twice married. His 
first wife was in maidenhood Miss Hannah 
Brittian. For his second wife (great-grand- 
mother of the subject of this sketch) he mar- 
ried Mrs. Tamar Miller, a widow, whose 
maiden name was Hatfield. Their children 
were: John and James, twins; William, 
grandfather of Frederic C. Colwell ; Char- 
lotte; and Nellie. 

John Colwell, Jr., married a Miss Peters, 
by whom he had thirteen children; namely, 
Hannah, Charlotte, Tamar, William, John 
(third), George, Susan, Amelia, Julia, 
Charles, Frances, Albert, and Belle. James 
Colwell was never married. Charlotte mar- 
ried a Mr. Young, and Nellie a Mr. Oakly. 
William, the third son of Lieutenant Colwell 
by his wife Tamar, married first Nancy Dyke- 
man, who bore him ten children — Jacob, 
Charlotte, John, James, Joseph H. D., 
George, Charles, Moses, Enoch, Gilbert. 
William Colwell lived to the advanced age of 
ninety-four years. His brother John lived to 
be seventy-nine, and James to be eighty years 
of age. 

Joseph H. D. Colwell was born in Jemseg, 
Queens County, N.B., in 1818. After reach- 
ing manhood he followed farming there for 
some time. In 1841 he married Emma Hat- 
field, of Belle Isle Bay, Kings County, a 
daughter of Isaac Hatfield, who was a Justice 
of the Peace and an extensive farmer. About 



1862 Mr. Colwell removed with his family to 
St. John, where he purchased a piece of land 
on Exmouth Street and built a nice double 
house. He ran a line of 'buses from Market 
Square to Indian Town, so called at that time, 
but now the North End. This enterprise 
proved very successful, and he was doing well 
when, in 1865, he contracted typhoid fever 
and died within six weeks, leaving his wife 
with four helpless children, one an infant of 
nine months. 

Frederic C. Colwell was hardly si.x years 
old when thus deprived of his father. At the 
early age of nine, a period of life when the 
time of most boys is divided between the ac- 
quisition of knowledge and indulgence in the 
sports of childhood, he began to contribute 
toward his own support, obtaining employ- 
ment as parcel boy in a grocery house. His 
education was thus necessarily limited; but he 
made the best of his opportunities in that di- 
rection, attending night school and subse- 
quently advancing in learning by means of 
home study. After remaining for three years 
in the grocery house he entered the employ 
of C. & E. Everett, hatters and furriers, and 
was with them for thirteen years. In 18S6 he 
left them and engaged as travelling salesman 
for J. R. Woodburn & Co., confectioners. A 
few years later, in 1890 or 1891, he formed a 
partnership with T. F. White, with whom he 
carried on a successful business, under the 
firm name of White, Colwell & Co., for four 
years. At the end of that time the connec- 
tion was dissolved, Mr. White buying out 
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Company, limited, and Mr. Colwell establish- 
ing the business of F. C. Colwell & Co., 
which at first he conducted for four years 
alone. Subsequently the firm became a joint 
stock company, under the name of the F. C. 
Colwell Candy Company, Limited, with Mr. 
J. R. Woodburn — whose business (J. R. 
Woodburn & Co. ) had been purchased by them 
— as president, Mr. Colwell, vice-president, 
C. H. Smith, treasurer, and C. T. Bailey, sec- 
retary. Successful from the start, the firm 
has done an excellent business up to the pres- 
ent time, and is still growing. They have 
just put in a new steam plant consisting of 
the latest and best machinery. They give em- 
ployment to about sixty hands, including four 
travelling salesmen. 

In thus mounting by degrees and by means 
of his own unaided efforts from the position of 
a fatherless boy of nine toiling for his daily 
bread to that of a prosjDerous business man, 
representing an important industry of the 
leading city of the Province, Mr. Colwell has 
demonstrated that he possesses an ample share 
of the essential qualities of true manhood — 
energy, honesty, perseverance, self-reliance, 
and intelligence — without which success in 
any department of iiuman endeavor is scarcely 
to be gained. He is fraternally associated 
with the Knights of Pythias, and is Past 
Worthy Patriarch of Albion division. He is 
also a member of the grand division of the 
Sons of Temperance of New Brunswick. He 
belongs to the Germain-Street Baptist Church. 

Mr. Colwell was married in 1888 to Frances 
Marion Wheeler, a native of Fredericton, 



N.B., and a daughter of William and Sarah 
(Post) Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Colwell are 
the parents of si.K children — Harvey Hall, 
Kenneth Hatfield, Ada Marion, Frances 
Edna, Emma Hazel, and Ina Winifred. 



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(gTVLFRED A. MABEE, who died April 
f^A 22, 1899, was a well-known manufact- 
v.—- urer and builder of St. John, N. B. 
He was born in the parish of Kars, Kings 
County, N.B., April 14, 1846, son of Abra- 
ham D. and Rhoda A. (Humphrey) Mabee. 

Mr. Mabee's paternal grandfather, Jeremiah 
Mabee, son of Jeremiah, Sr. , and Judith 
(Chadyne) Mabee, born on Long Island, N. V., 
January i, 1780, came to New Brunswick with 
his parents and his brother William on May 
18, 1783. William Mabee subsequently set- 
tled in Kingston, Ont. He reared a large 
family. Jeremiah Mabee, the late Alfred A. 
Mabee's grandfather, was both a farmer and 
a mechanic. He constructed the first spinning- 
wheel made in Kingston, Kings County, N.B. , 
where he resided until his death, which oc- 
curred in liis eighty-fifth year. He was well 
known in that locality in his da}-, and for 
many years served as crier of the court. He 
married for his first wife Sousana Downey, 
who became the mother of seven sons and 
seven daughters. For his second wife he mar- 
ried a Mrs. Pickett. 

Abraham D. Mabee, father of Alfred A., 
learned the carpenter's trade, which he fol- 
lowed in Kings County during his active years, 
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section as a reliable building contractor. He 
married Rhoda A., daughter of Joseph Hum- 
phrey, of Belle Isle, and had a family of ten 
children; namely, Alfred A., Eliza J., Debo- 
rah, Jeremiah D. , Susanna, Charles O., An- 
netta, Arthur D. , Lemuel, and another child 
who died in infancy. Eliza J., who is no longer 
living, was the wife of B. French. Deborah is 
the wife of Whitfield Lamb, of Kings County. 
Susanna married James Rattle, of New York 
City. Charles O. was lost at sea, at the age 
of twenty-five years, while on a voyage from 
Norfolk to Australia. Annetta, now deceased, 
was the wife of Dr. John McGivern. Arthur 
D. resides in New York. Lemuel died some 
years since. Abraham D. Mabee died March 
24, 1880, and his wife died at the age of sixty- 
four years. They were members of the Baptist 
church. 

Alfred A. Mabee began to go to sea when 
fourteen years old, and led a seafaring life for 
several years, during which time he visited the 
West Indies, and for a while was pilot on the 
steamer "City of St. John " between St. John 
and Boston. Settling in St. John in 1868, he 
turned his attention to the building business, 
and during the ne.xt thirty years erected many 
dwelling-bouses, including some of the promi- 
nent residences in the north end of the city. 
In 1887 he engaged in the manufacture of 
lumber. 

On November 19, 1868, Mr. Mabee was 
united in marriage with Charlotte C. Oram, 
of St. John, daughter of John C. Oram and of 
English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Mabee have 
had four children, two of whom are living — 



Alfred O. and Iza Bell. Alfred O., who was 
in business with his father, married Hattie A. 
Lingley, of Westfield, N. B., and has one 
child, Alfred A. 

Mr. Mabee belonged to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, the Foresters, and other 
organizations. He attended the Free Will 
Baptist church. 




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HE JAMES ROBERTSON COM- 
PANY, Limited, St. John, N.B.— 
Business opened here in 1877 by Mr. James 
Robertson, Montreal, under the management 
of Mr. A. A. McMichael, the present vice- 
president of the company and manager of the 
firm's branch at Toronto. The business has 
steadily increased since its inception, and is 
to-day the largest manufacturing concern of 
its kind in the Maritime Provinces. 

Besides being manufacturers, this firm are 
among the largest importers in the country in 
metals of all kinds. The celebrated saws 
manufactured by the company are used in all 
the saw-mills of any importance in the coun- 
try. Extensive alterations have been made 
in the large lead and color works at the corner 
of Charlotte and Sheffiekl Streets, where the 
paints, oils, and varnishes, so extensively 
used in the Provinces, are manufactured. 
Other manufactures are lead-pipe solder, Bab- 
bitt metal, block tin pipe, shot, lead traps, 
putty, and so forth. 

In the warerooms, corner Mill and Union 
Streets, where a large stock of metals, plum- 
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are constantly kept, the firm are fitting up a 
large plumbing show-room, where these appli- 
ances will be under water pressure. All the 
latest sanitary specialties will be found 
here. 

Adjoining this sample-room and finished in 
quarter-cut oak are the firm's general offices, 
which are said to be the finest in the city. 
This branch is under the management of Mr. 
P. McMichael, formerly of Toronto. Other 
houses of the company are situated in Toronto, 
Ont, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Victoria, B.C., 
Montreal, Quebec, the last of which is the 
head office of the company, under the direct 
supervision of the president, Mr. James 
Robertson. 

Although the St. John house is the young- 
est, it bids fair to cope with any of the other 
branches in the near future, under the present 
enterprising and energetic management. The 
reliability of the firm, coupled with its long 
business experience, makes it at once safe 
and secure for all desiring to open business 
relations in the several lines under their 
control. 



EORGE WILLIAM KETCHUM, 




J^l hardware merchant, St. John, N. B., 
Canada, was born in Kings County, New 
Brunswick, on January i6, 1853, being the 
son of George Forrester Ketchum and Elida 
Ketchum. 

The family was founded in New Brunswick 
by his great-grandparents, Jonathan and 
Mannah (Ouintard) Ketchum, who came to 
this Province from Newark, N.J., with other 



Loyalists in 1783, and settled on a farm at 
Lower Norton, Kings County, known as 
Yankee Shore. Dying when well advanced 
in years, they were buried in the parish 
churchyard, Kingston, Kings County. Their 
children were: Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Will- 
iam, James, Charles, Deborah, and another 
daughter. Deborah was married to Thomas 
Fairweather before coming to this Province, 
and the other daughter was married to Captain 
Isaac Ketchum. Captain Isaac Ketchum died 
February 15, 1835, at the age of eighty-seven. 

William Ketchum, grandfather of George 
W. Ketchum, accompanied his parents from 
Newark, N.J., to this Province, and followed 
farming as his life occupation. He married 
Ann Forrester, by whom he had three sons 
and four daughters; namely, Hannah O. , 
Mary, Frances, Betsy, William H., Edward 
Le B., and George Forrester. William 
Ketchum died in 1844, twenty-seven years 
after the death of his wife, which occurred on 
January 25, 1817. The mortal remains of 
both rest in the Kingston Parish Churchyard. 

George Forrester Ketchum, the father of 
George W. Ketchum, was born on January 9, 
18 1 7. When old enough to work, he assisted 
his father at farming, but subsequently learned 
the trade of carpenter, which was his principal 
occupation. His last days were spent on a 
farm in Kings County, about two miles from 
the old homestead, where he died January 23, 
1882. On December 29, 1850, he married 
Elida Snider, who was born in Kings County 
on March 2, 1S31. They had eight children: 
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Hoyt; George William, the subject of this 
sketch; Mary Elizabeth, who was married to 
William Provan ; Edward Le Baron, who died 
July 19; 1874; Blanche Elida Melvina; 
Charles Henry, who resides at the homestead; 
Frank Forrester, of Greenwood, British Co- 
lumbia; and Edith Seely, of Boston, Mass. 
Mrs. Elida Snider Ketchum died on October 
14, 1889, and she and her husband were buried 
at Lower Norton Churchyard, Kings County, 
N.B. 

George W. Ketchum was brought up and 
educated in Kings County, New Brunswick. 
Leaving the home farm in iSjr, he came to 
St. John, worked in the store of Robert Fair 
at Fairville for about a month, and then was 
employed in Moore's Nail Factory for two 
years. In 1873 he entered the employ of 
I. & F. Burpee & Co., dealers in iron and 
heavy hardware, remaining with them and 
their successors, I. & E. R. Burpee, as a 
clerk until 1890, in which year he was ad- 
mitted a partner in the latter firm. 

On October i, 1879, he married Mary Eliz- 
abeth Fairweather, a native of St. John and 
daughter of Thomas Fairweather. Mr. and 
Mrs. Ketchum have had five children, namely: 
William Percy, who died August 8, 1880, 
aged one month and eight days; Harold 
Quintard, who died September 10, 1885, aged 
one year and five months; Mary Louise, born 
June 10, 1887; Jean Beatrice, born May 10, 
1889; and George Francis, who died May 15, 
1892, aged two months and ten days. 

George W. Ketchum is a member of the 
Church of England. 




DWARD BYRON WINSLOW, Q.C, 
a prominent lawyer of Fredericton, 
N. B., was born in Woodstock, N. B. , in April, 
1842, being the youngest son of John Francis 
Wentworth and Jane Caroline (Rainsford) 
Winslow. He is a direct descendant in the 
seventh generation of Edward Winslow, who 
came to America in 1620 as one of the Pil- 
grims, and was the third Governor of the 
Plymouth Colony. He has in his possession 
a silver tankard bearing the Winslow crest 
beautifully engraved thereon, which his immi- 
grant progenitor brought with him in the 
"Mayflower." 

The ancestral line, beginning with Governor 
Edward Winslow, is as follows: Edward,' 
Josiah,- Isaac, 3 h:dward,^ Edward, s John 
¥. \V.,^ Edward Byron. 7 (See Davis's "An- 
cient Landmarks of Plymouth.") 

Edward Winslow, born at Droitwich, ling- 
land, in 1595, married for his second wife, in 
162 1, Mrs. Susanna Fuller White, widow of 
William White. Their son Josiah, a native 
of Plymouth, was Governor of the colony from 
1673 till his decease in 1680. He married 
Penelope, daughter of Herbert Pelham, Esq., 
and resided at Marshfield, Mass. 

Isaac Winslow, born in 1670, son of Gov- 
ernor Josiah, was married on June 26, 1700, 
"by Mr. Cotton Mather," to Sarah Wensley, 
daughter of John Wensley, of Boston. Ed- 
ward, born in 17 14, son of Isaac and Sarah 
Winslow, married in 1741 Hannah Howland, 
daughter of Thomas Howland and widow of 
William Dyer. A Loyalist, he removed with 
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Edward, Jr., born in 1746, also a Loyalist, set- 
tled in New Brunswick. He was a Judge of 
the Supreme Court. He married Mary 
Symonds, and had a large family of children, 
among them Thomas A. C, an officer in the 
Tenth Foot, now the Lincolnshire Regiment; 
Mary, who married Edward W. Miller; Sarah, 
who married Lawrence B. Rainsford; and John 
F. W., father of Edward Byron Winslow. 

John Francis Wentworth was born in 1793, 
and died in 1859. He married Jane Caroline 
Rainsford, and they had the following -named 
children: Francis E. , now living at Chatham, 
N.B. , manager of the Bank of Montreal; John 
C. Winslow (deceased), lately Postmaster at 
Woodstock, N. B. ; Edward, who died in in- 
fancy; Mary, now of Woodstock, N.B. , un- 
married; Mrs. Elizabeth Rainsford Jacob, 
now deceased; Wentworth, of Woodstock, 
farmer; T. Bradshaw, of Fredericton, secre- 
tary in the Department of Public Works, New 
Brunswick; and E. Byron, of Fredericton, bar- 
rister-at-law, whose name heads this sketch 
and whose personal history is outlined below. 

Mr. Winslow obtained his education in the 
common schools at Woodstock, the Frederic- 
ton High School, and the high school at St. 
Johns, Quebec. Soon after he began the 
study of law in the office of the Hon. J. J. 
Fraser, afterward Judge of the Supreme Court 
of New Brunswick and later Governor of the 
Province. In 1865 Mr. Winslow was ad- 
mitted an attorney, and very soon he became 
a partner with Mr. Fraser, the association 
continuing until the latter was placed upon 
the Supreme Court bench. In politics Mr. 



Winslow has been a leading Conservative, 
and has frequently taken an active part in ad- 
vancing the interests of friends, although 
never seeking office himself. He is a mem- 
ber of the Church of England. 

Mr. E. Byron Winslow was married in 
1S71 to Emma B. Orr. They have eight 
children now living, namely: Wentworth 
Byron Winslow, manager of the Colonial 
Bank, Columbus Avenue, New York City; 
Jasper A. Winslow, a clerk in the Bank of 
British North Am.erica, Montreal; J. J. 
Fraser Winslow, Lieutenant in the Seventy- 
first York Infantry; Elizabeth Caroline Wins- 
low; Marguerite Winslow; F. E. Winslow, 
clerk in the Bank of Montreal; R. N. Wins- 
low and R. H. Winslow, both at school. 



^AMES D. DIXON, a highly respected 
citizen of Sackville, N.B., and for 
many years Collector of Customs at 
this port, was born in Sackville, N. B. , Octo- 
ber 5, 1 8 19, a son of Edward Di.xon. He 
comes of excellent E^nglish ancestry, his pa- 
ternal grandfather, Charles Dixon, having 
been born March 8, 1730 (old style), at Kir- 
leavington, near Yarm, East Riding of York- 
shire, old England. 

Charles Dixon learned the trade of a brick- 
layer from his father, with whom he worked 
until he was nineteen years old, and then fol- 
lowed his trade alone for ten years. He sub- 
sequently engaged in a paper-mill at Hatton 
Rudby, he conducted it successfully until 
1772, when he emigrated with his family to 




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New Brunswick. Locating in Sacl-cville, he 
invested a part of his money in land, buy- 
ing a tract of twenty-five hundred acres, on 
which he carried on farming and merchan- 
dise to some extent until his death on Au- 
gust 21, 1 8 17. He became prominent in pub- 
lic affairs, and in 1775 was appointed Jus- 
tice of the Peace, in 1778 was made Judge of 
Common Pleas, prior to 1793 was a member 
of the legislature, and was afterward Col- 
lector of Customs a number of years. On 
June 24, 1763, he married Susanna Coates, 
who died June 13, 1826. Both were mem- 
bers of the Methodist church. They had 
eight children, Edward being the second son. 

Edward Dixon was born September 20, 
1776, in Sackville, N.B., where, with the ex- 
ception of one year spent in ship-building, he 
was engaged in general farming throughout 
the active period of his long life of eighty-five 
years. His wife, Mary Smith, daughter of 
John Smith, of Parrsboro, N.S., died at the 
age of seventy-four years. They were the 
parents of ten children, of whom but two are 
now living: James D., the subject of this 
sketch; and William Coates. Both parents 
were active members of the Methodist church. 

James D. Dixon was educated in the Sack- 
ville schools, and has always been a resident 
of Sackville. He has followed farming more 
or less during his active life, and is now liv- 
ing retired on a portion of the homestead 
which his grandfather wrested from the wilder- 
ness. In 1855 he was appointed Collector of 
Customs for the port of Sackville, an ofifice 
which he filled with credit to himself and the 



government for twenty-six consecutive yeare, 
being retired on a pension in 1881. In poli- 
tics he is a Liberal. 

In 1844 Mr. Dixon married Eunice, daugh- 
ter of George Black, of Dorchester, N. B. 
Their union has been brightened by the birth 
of six children, five of whom are still living; 
namely, Mary E., Samuel E., Alfred B. , 
Frederick A., and Louisa C. Mary E. has 
been twice married, and is now the widow of 
the late Harmon Humphrey, of Sackville. 
Her first husband, Joseph Archibald, died 
leaving her with two sons, one of whom, Her- 
bert D. Archibald, is living. Samuel E. 
married Emma Carter, of Westmoreland, and 
has three children, namely: Walter I., who 
married Emma Truman; James L. ; and 
Clarence E. Alfred B. married Florence 
F'reeman, of Amherst, N.S., and has four 
children — Leonard, Ernest, Clementina, and 
Herbert. Frederick A. married Margaret 
Patterson. Louisa C. is the wife of the Rev. 
W. A. Black, and has two children — -Ella L. 
and Carrie A. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon are active 
and valued members of the Methodist church. 




EV. WILLIAM CLEOPHAS GAY- 
NOR. Born September 25, 1855, in 
Chatham, N. B., of Irish-American 
parentage. His family ancestors on both 
sides belonged to the early history of the 
Province. His father, Thomas Gaynor, a na- 
tive of Chatham, was educated in the grammar 
school of that town. His mother, a native of 
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Catherine Buckley, was educated in a young 
ladies' academy conducted at Newcastle by a 
Mrs. Merry. His first acquaintance with 
letters was made in a private school taught by 
John Hamilton, of Newcastle. Thence he 
was transferred to the mixed school conducted 
by the Sisters of Charity of Halifax at New- 
castle in the later sixties. At the age of 
fourteen he represented this school in the 
public competition of the schools of Northum- 
berland County, and carried off several prizes. 
He then attended the Classical School at 
Chatham known as St. Michael's Academy, 
where he pursued his classical and mathe- 
matical studies under teachers of exceptional 
ability. His philosophical and metaphysical 
studies there begun were subsequently com- 
pleted — a two years' course — in the Uni- 
versity of St. Joseph. Here also he com- 
pleted his theological studies, holding at the 
same time the chair of English literature and 
rhetoric and the professorship of the higher 
mathematics. 

Having completed his preparatory studies, 
he was ordained priest under a special dispen- 
sation from Rome, in his twenty-third year, 
on the 4th of August, 1878, by the Right 
Rev. John Sweeney, D. D., Bishop of St. 
John, in the cathedral of that city. The first 
three years of his ministry were spent in 
Carleton, .St. John, and at Woodstock, until 
in 1 881 he was appointed to a newly erected 
mission at Debec, Carleton County. It was 
during his residence at Debec that he wrote 
the pamphlet, "Papal Infallibility," in reply 
to the Rev. John M. Davenport, M.A. After 



a residence of some years at Debec, his health 
failing, he was obliged to seek a warmer 
climate; and in November, 1887, he left for 
California. During his absence in the 
United States he devoted himself principally 
to literary work, accepting in 1889 the pro- 
fessorship of English literature in the Ver- 
mont Institute at Burlington. In 1890 he re- 
turned to New Brunswick, and became pro- 
fessor of English rhetoric and literature in 
the University of St. Joseph. Here he re- 
mained until 1893, when he was again sent to 
missionary work, this time at Sussex. In 
1896 he was transferred to St. John to the 
Church of St. John the Baptist, Broad Street, 
where he now resides. He is a member of 
the New I^runswick Historical Society, a con- 
tributor to the current magazines, a lover of 
outdoor sports; in politics a Liberal Conser- 
vative, and in sentiment intensely Canadian. 




NRY CANFIELD PRESTON, 
M.D., for many years a leading med- 
ical practitioner of St. John, N. B., 
was born in New York on March 5, 1820. 
He was a son of Zephaniah Preston, a promi- 
nent merchant in Hartford, Conn., and vice- 
president of the Connecticut Mutual Life In- 
surance Company. The Preston family is of 
English origin, and has been prominent since 
early Colonial times. 

The Doctor took his degree of Bachelor of 
Arts from Trinity College of Hartford, Conn., 
and his medical degree from the University of 
New York in 1S44. Pie began the practice of 




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his profession in Hartford, Conn., in 1844, 
but subsequently removed to Providence, R. I. 
Early in his professional career he became in- 
terested in Iiomoeopathy, made a study of 
its principles, and gradually applied them to 
his own practice. For a time he was asso- 
ciate editor of the Nortli American Journal of 
HomcBopatliy, and while in that position he 
was called to St. John in consultation with 
Dr. Peterson. Subsequently, in 1858, he set- 
tled in St. John, and in a short time built up 
a large and lucrative practice among the lead- 
ing families of the city. He was prominent 
in Masonic circles and in the fraternity of 
Odd Fellows. He was one of the first physi- 
cians here to be appointed member of the New 
Brunswick Medical Council of Physicians and 
Surgeons. 

Dr. Preston was married on October i, 
1846, to Miss Louise Green, a native of New 
London, Conn., and a descendant of Samuel 
Green, of Cambridge, Mass., one of the first 
printers and publishers in New England. 
(See Eliot's Indian Bible, printed by Sam- 
uel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, first edi- 
tion, 1663.) Of this union seven children 
were born. One of these, George S. , died in 
infancy. The six living are: Henry G., a 
physician of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; William C, 
who is a photographer in Troy, N. Y.; Ed- 
ward A., the well-known physician of St. 
John; Albert L., who is an insurance agent of 
Westerly, R.L; Thomas S., who is a mer- 
chant of Cambridgeport, Mass. ; and Annie 
Louisa, who is principal of a kindergarten in 
Providence, R.I. Dr. Henry C. Preston died 



on July 13, 1893. His wife, who survives 
him, resides in Providence, R.I. 

Edward A. Preston, M.D. , was born in 
Providence, R.L, on September 7, 1854. He 
was only four years old when his parents re- 
moved from that city to St. John, where his 
boyhood days were passed. He acquired his 
elementary education in the jniblic schools of 
St. John, and afterward took a course of study 
at an academy in Hartford, Conn. His medi- 
cal studies were pursued for several years with 
his father and subsequently in Brooklyn, 
N.Y., at Long Island College, where on July 
I, 1879, ^^ received the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. For a year he practised his pro- 
fession in that city, and in 1880 came to 
St. John, where he has since resided. He 
is a member and Senior Deacon of St. John's 
Lodge of Masons, No. 2, and member of 
New Brunswick Chapter, R. A. M. ; also a 
member of Union De Molay Preceptory, 
Knights Templar; also District Deputy High 
Chief Ranger of C. O. F. and Chief Ranger 
of I. O. F". He is connected with several 
temperance organizations. 

Dr. Edward A. Preston was first married in 
1872, and of this union three children were 
born: Edward A., Jr., M. Louise, and Jennie. 
The first named, who was born in 1873, is in 
mercantile business in New York. M. 
Louise was born in 1877, and Jennie three 
years later. In 1890 Dr. Preston married 
Saidee M. Howard, of St. John. She has 
borne him one child, Florence, who was born 
in 1892. The Doctor is a member of the 
New Brunswick Medical Society, and of 



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the Homoeopathic Medical Societ)' of Kings 
County, New York. 




RTHUR LESLIE GOODWIN, for 

nearly twenty years a prominent busi- 
ness man of St. John, importer of 
and wholesale dealer in fruit and produce, was 
born at Bay Verte, N.B., February 21, 1858, 
son of John F. and Mary (Harper) Goodwin. 
He was a lineal descendant of Daniel Good- 
win, who was born in Plymouth, England, in 
1734, and emigrated to Newburyport, Mass., 
in 1754. 

Daniel Goodwin joined the New England 
troops that were sent under the command of 
Colonel John Winslow by Governor Shirley, 
of Massachusetts, to aid Colonel Moncton in 
his attack on Fort Beau Sejour in 1755. 
After the surrender of Beau Sejour, Fort 
Gaspereaux, near Bay Verte, also surrendered. 
Daniel Goodwin remained in the army twenty 
years. He settled in Bay Verte, where his 
death occurred in 1823 at the age of eighty- 
nine. He married Sarah Hunt, a native of 
Ireland, and had eleven sons and one daugh- 
ter. Ten of the sons were soldiers, and two 
of them fought in Waterloo. While Daniel 
Goodwin was with his regiment in Nova 
Scotia, his wife and children lived at Jolicure, 
about six miles from Fort Cumberland (for- 
merly Beau Sejour). During her husband's 
absence from home Mrs. Goodwin discovered 
a party of French and Intlians coming toward 
the house, and, taking her children, the young- 
est of whom was an infant, iled to tlic woods, 



where, crouched in a thicket, she saw the in- 
truders set fire to the house, which burned to 
the ground. She and her children afterward 
succeeded in reaching the fort in safety. 

The great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch was Jonathan Goodwin; and his grand- 
father was Isaac Goodwin, a native of Bay 
Verte, who married Ann Fawcett. Isaac 
Goodwin had a family of eleven children, 
among whom were Edward C, Cyrus, Mar- 
garet, Elizabeth, Charles, Caroline, Stephen, 
John F., and Eleanor. 

John F. Goodwin, the late Arthur Leslie 
Goodwin's father, was born in Bay Verte in 
1 83 I. He lived on a farm and followed agri- 
culture until 1 87 1, when he came to St. John 
and engaged in the commission business, 
which he carried on for some years. He is 
now in business with his son. His wife, 
Mary, whom he married in 1S54, was a daugh- 
ter of William Harper and a grand-daughter of 
Major Christopher Harper, who was one of 
the first settlers of Sackville, N.B. John F. 
Goodwin has had a family of nine children; 
namely, Helen, Arthur Leslie, Harriet 
Harper, Edward A., Alice Mary, Emily 
Maud, Joseph Harper, Annie Josephine, and 
Hattie Elizal^eth. Helen Goodwin married 
for her first husband John W. Leighton, by 
whom she had four children. For her second 
husband she married N. W. Smith, of Boston; 
and of this union there is one son. Harriet 
Harper Goodwin died at the age of fourteen, 
lulward Augustus is in business in St. John. 
Alice Mary is the wife of Robert D. Clark. 
Joseph Harper Goodwin died at the age of 




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four years. Annie Josephine married Edwin 
R. Seely. Hattie Elizabeth died at the age 
of two years. The mother died March 26, 
1896. 

Arthur Leslie Goodwin spent his boyhood 
and youth in his native town. Upon coming 
to St. John, he entered his father's store as a 
clerk, and later was in the employ of J. W. 
Potts for four years. In 1879 he established 
himself in the wholesale fruit and produce 
business, building up a large trade, and carry- 
ing it on successfully until his death, which 
occurred December 24, 1898. He possessed 
many excellent traits of character, and was 
highly esteemed by all who knew him. He 
was interested in all measures favorable to the 
business development of the city, and was a 
member of the Board of Trade. He belonged 
to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

On April 23, 1889, Mr. Goodwin was united 
in marriage with Mary Aland Policy, of 
Welsford, Queens County. Three children 
were born of this union; namely, Arthur 
Leslie, Horace Fowler, and Walter Germain. 

Edward A. Goodwin was born in Bay Verte 
in 1862, and was educated in the public 
schools of St. John. After finishing his 
studies, he entered tlie employ of the Singer 
Sewing Machine Company, with whom he re- 
mained for three years. In 1879 he became 
associated with his brother, Arthur L. , in the 
wholesale fruit and produce business, and 
upon the death of the latter took the manage- 
ment of the store. On November 23, 1892, 
he married Minnie Clark, daughter of Alex- 
ander K. Clark, of St. John, and formerly of 



Halifax, N. S. He has three children — 
Harold E., May Alice, and Wilhclmina Maud. 
Mr. Edward A. Goodwin is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias. 




ILLIAM WALLACE HAY, Mayor 
of Woodstock, Carleton County, 
N. B. , is a member of the well-known firm 
of Hugh Hay & Son. He was born at 
Woodstock, December 24, 1855, the eldest 
son of Hugh Hay. On the paternal side 
he is of Scotch ancestry. His great -grands 
father, James tlay, resided in Hawick, Rox- 
burghshire, Scotland; and his grandfather, 
John Hay, was born at Hawick, and was there 
trained as an architect and mason. While yet 
a young man John Hay came to New Bruns- 
wick. After living for a time at Cumberland 
Bay he removed to what is now the parish of 
Richmond, where he made farming his prin- 
cipal occupation for many years. He became 
greatly interested in local affairs, and at the 
time of the incorporation of the county of 
Carleton was appointed one of the first County 
Councillors. Before leaving Scotland he 
united with the Free Masons. He married in 
Queens County, New Brunswick, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Duncan McLean, of Scotland. 

Hugh Hay was born at Cumberland Bay, 
Queens County, N. B. , November 24, 182S. 
He was educated in the parish of Richmond, 
whither his parents removed when he was two 
years old. He worked there with his father at 
farming and lumbering until of age, when he 
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urer of lumber. In 1855 he began his mer- 
cantile career by establishing the firm of 
which he is still at the head; and he has since 
carried on a most satisfactory and prosperous 
business, being at the present time the longest 
established merchant in Woodstock. He car- 
ries a fine line of goods, importing directly 
from the manufacturers in the old country. 
He takes a deep interest in local matters, and 
for several years has been a member of the 
Town Council. His first wife, Melissa, 
daughter of Enoch DeBeck, of Keswick, N.B., 
died in early womanhood, leaving four of her 
seven children, namely: Louisa, wife of L. P. 
Farris, member of the Provincial Parliament 
from the parish of White Cove, Grand Lake, 
Queens County; William Wallace; Hugh B. , 
a physician in Chipman, N.B. ; and Clarence, 
of Butte, Montana, U.S. By his second wife, 
Christiana, daughter of Captain William Mc- 
Kenzie, of Richmond, N.B. , he has one son, 
Charles M., a physician in Philadeli^hia, Pa. 
He attends the Presbyterian church, of which 
he was one of the trustees for thirty years, and 
of which his wife is a member. 

William W. Hay received a practical com- 
mon-school education, and subsequently as- 
sisted in his father's store as a clerk until 
1895, when he was admitted into partnership, 
the firm name becoming Hugh Hay & Son. 
Mr. Hay is independent in politics. For a 
number of years he served as County Coun- 
cillor; and in January, 1897, he was elected 
Mayor of Woodstock by acclamation, an office 
which he has filled with credit to himself and 
to the ijeneral satisfaction of his fellow-citi- 



zens, who have sjoecially appreciated the 
marked improvement in the public highways 
during his term of office. Fraternally, he is a 
member of Carleton Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; of 

Meductic Encampment; and of Court , 

I. O. F., No. 652. He is a Ju.stice of the 
Peace, and is also a Coroner. 

Mr. Hay has been twice married. His first 
wife, Sophia, daughter of the late Judson 
Harris, of Cornwallis, N. S. , died April 9, 
1895. She was a most estimable woman and 
an active member of the Baptist church. She 
bore him five children, namely: Frederick 
Lauchlan, who was teller in the Bank of Nova 
Scotia at the time of his death, in Woodstock; 
Arthur H., who graduated in the class of 1S99 
in Acadia College, and won the Governor's 
gold medal ; William Carey; Burpee McLeod ; 
and Cassie L. On September 29, 1897, Mr. 
Hay married Mrs. Henrietta Elizabeth Marley, 
daughter of Zebulon Jones, Itsq. , of Green- 
wick, Kings County, N.B. Mr. Hay attends 
the Presbyterian church. 



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HOMAS WHITE, the veteran confec- 
q )\ tioner of St. John, president of the 
White Candy Company, 1S95-1899, was born 
near Glasgow, Scotland, May 22, 1832. His 
father was Leslie White, a broker, who emi- 
grated with his family to New Brunsvi'ick in 
1845, and in the following }'ear returned to 
Scotland. On his airiwil in this Province, 
young Thomas White went to Fredericton, 
where he was employed as a farm assistant for 
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worked for George E. Fenety on the Daily 
Neivs for about two years and a half. After 
spending twelve months in his native land, he 
went to the United States, and, locating in 
Maiden, Mass., resided there three and a half 
years. Returning to St. John in 1855, he en- 
tered the confectionery business as an employee 
of Alexander Martin, with whom he remained 
ten years; and in 1865 he established himself 
in the same line of trade on Chipman Hill. 
Four years later he removed to Germain Street, 
where he carried on business until his store, 
in common with all others in that locality, 
was swept away in the fire of 1S77, causing 
him a loss of five thousand dollars. During 
the year following the great condagration he 
carried on business in a temporary building 
which he erected on King Square; and, after 
subsequently occupying a store on Union 
Street for a few months, he secured quarters in 
the Prescott Building on Charlotte Street, 
where he remained five years, or until remov- 
ing to the present location of the business on 
King Street. For many years he was one of 
the leading confectionery dealers in New 
Brunswick. The manufactory, which was for- 
merly carried on under the firm name of 
White, Caldwell & Co., was incorporated in 
1896 as the White Candy Company, the capital 
stock being now owned by Thomas White & 
Sons. This concern, which is the second 
largest of its kind in the Maritime Provinces, 
is doing a profitable business, and its goods 
have acquired a high reputation. In 1899 Mr. 
Thomas White retired from the candy business, 
and the concern is now carried on by his two 



sons, Frank and Leslie White, who have added 
to their store a first-class restaurant. 

In 1857 Mr. White married Miss Charlotte 
E. Armstrong, daughter of the late John Arm- 
strong, who came from Ireland to St. John 
when she was an infant. Of this union there 
were nine sons, namely: Thomas F. , manager 
of the White Candy Company; Leslie, who is 
in the store with his father; William, suiDerin- 
tendent of the factory ; Frank, foreman of the 
above; Edwin Pinkerton, who died in 1877, 
aged seven years and six months ; Frederick 
Warren, who died a few weeks later, aged four 
years and eight months ; Harry Duffel ; Fred- 
erick E. ; and another who died in infancy. 

Mr. White has been a member of Hibernian 
Lodge, V. & A. M., for twenty-five years; has 
been vice-president of the St. Andrew's So- 
ciety, which he joined over twenty years ago, 
and also belongs to the Order of Clan Mc- 
Kenzie. He attends the Methodist church. 




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HOMAS F. WHITE, manager of the 
White Candy Company, St. John, was 
born in this city. May 9, 1857, son of Thomas 
and Charlotte PI. (Armstrong) White. The 
father is well known in St. John as formerly 
president of the above-named company. An 
account of his early business life will be found 
in a sketch under his name upon another page 
of the Review. 

After the completion of his education, which 
was acquired in the public schools of St. John, 
Thomas Y. White began to assist his father in 
business; and, having obtained a good knowl- 



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edge of the confectionery trade, he in 1887 
opened a store in Fredericton, where he re- 
mained two years. Selling out his business in 
that city, he returned to St. John, and, associ- 
ating himself with his brother William, opened 
a wholesale establishment. Some time later 
a partnership was formed with F. C. Caldwell; 
and, purchasing the confectionery factory for- 
merly carried on by J. K. Woodbury & Co., a 
successful business was inaugurated under the 
style of White, Caldwell & Co., with Thomas 
F. White as manager. This enterprise was 
soon afterward merged into the White Candy 
Company, with William Wheeler as president, 
Thomas F. White as manager, and William 
White as superintendent. Upon the retire- 
ment of Mr. Wheeler in 1895, Mr. Thomas 
White, the veteran confectioner, was elected 
president. The corporation is now employing 
from forty-five to fifty hands, and its goods are 
sold throughout the lower Provinces. 

In 1885 Mr. White was joined in marriage 
with Miss Sarah Cochran, of St. John. They 
have four children — Thomas Hamilton, Henry 
Wilson, Margaret Armstrong, and Jean Leslie. 

Mr. White was officially connected with St. 
Andrew's Lodge, I. O. O. F., now extinct, 
and has occupied the principal chairs of Pio- 
neer Lodge, which he joined in 1879. He 
also belongs to the Canadian Order of Fores- 
ters and the Order of Clan McKenzie. 




ILLIAM ALBERT LOCKHART, 
Collector of Customs for the port of 
St. John and c.\-Mayor of that city, was born 



in that city in 1835, son of George A. and 
Ann (Shaw) Lockhart. His paternal grand- 
father, Daniel Lockhart, who was of Scotch 
descent, was a native of Horton, N. S. He 
lived to be about eighty years old. He fol- 
lowed general farming during his active years, 
and served as Magistrate. 

George A. Lockhart was born in Horton in 
1797. He was reared upon a farm in Nova 
Scotia, and, coming to St. John in 1827, was 
engaged in mercantile pursuits for the rest of 
his life. He was Police Magistrate a number 
of years, and he represented Queen's Ward in 
the Board of Aldermen many terms. Ann 
Shaw Lockhart, his wife, was a daughter of 
Peter Shaw, of Falmouth, N. S. Her ances- 
tors were originally from Yorkshire, England, 
and they lived in Rhode Island before their 
removal to Nova Scotia. She became the 
mother of seven children, namely: two who 
died in infancy; Lydia Ann, who married 
Steplien Thome, of Bridgetown, N. S., and is 
no longer living; Jane C. , also deceased, who 
was the wife of Dewitt C. Cammeyer, of New 
York City; George A., who died single; 
William A., the subject of this sketch; Jessie 
A. S., who married first Ferdinand Cammeyer, 
and after his death married Herbert Vail. 
George A. Lockhart, the elder, was a member 
of the Masonic order and the Sons of Temper- 
ance. He died in 1872, and his wife died in 
187S. 

William Albert Lockhart pursued his early 
studies in the schools of St. John, and com- 
pleted his education at the Sackville Academy. 
He was for a time employed by Lockhart & 



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Co., dealers in hats, caps, and f nrs ; but a 
prospect of speedy business advancement in- 
duced him to acce^Dt a clerksliip in his father's 
store, and he was subsequently admitted to 
partnership, , the firm name becoming George 
A. Lockhart & Son. After his father's death 
he relinquished mercantile pursuits in order to 
engage in the general auction and brokerage 
business, which he has conducted with satis- 
factory financial results. He was a member 
of the Common Council for six years, and as 
Mayor during the years 1889-90 he adminis- 
tered the public affairs of the city in a judi- 
cious and business-like manner. Me has also 
attended to the issuing of marriage permits, 
liquor licenses, and so forth. J-iis appoint- 
ment as Collector of Customs bears the date of 
March 31, 1900. 

In 1864 Mr. Lockhart married for his iirst 
wife Mary E. Lawton, daughter of James Law- 
ton. She died in 1865, leaving one son, 
F. A. L. Lockhart, M. D., a member of the 
medical staff at Magill College, Montreal, and 
principal operator on the gynecological staff of 
the Montreal General Hospital. In 1868 he 
married for his second wife Harriett A. Gil- 
mcre, daughter of Samuel and Sarah C. 
Gilmore, of St. Stephen, N. B. , and a step- 
daughter of the Hon. 'William Elder, Provin- 
cial Secretary. The children of this union 
are: Edith Alberta, who died at the age of 
eighteen years; William Alexander; Edwin 
Byard, who is studying for the Methodist min- 
stry at University Park, Portland, Ore. ; 
Alice M. E. ; Beatrice Aileen; and George 
Albert Lockhart. 



Mr. Lockhart has advanced in Masonry to 
the Commandery, is a member of the Sons of 
Temperance, and formerly belonged to the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows. 




I^EDERICK MOORE, an extensive 
lumber manufacturer, farmer, and stock- 
raiser of Woodstock, N.B. , is a man of great 
business enterprise and sagacity. He was 
born February 11, 1S40, in Canterbury, York 
County, which was also the birthplace of his 
father, William Moore. John Moore, his pa- 
ternal grandfather, was born in the north of 
Ireland. 

Immigrating to America in early manhood, 
John Moore settled in New York; and during 
the Revolutionary War he was drafted into the 
American army, but was afterward exchanged 
for a British soldier. Removing then to New 
Brunswick, he became a pioneer settler in the 
vicinity of St. John. He finally went farther 
up the river; and, buying land in what is now 
the town of Canterbury, York County, he im- 
proved a farm, on which he spent his remain- 
ing days. 

William Moore, born March 12, 1797, son 
of John, succeeded to the occupation to which 
he was reared, and during his entire active 
life was employed in farming and lumbering. 
He married Eliza Latham, daughter of George 
Taylor Latham, of Halifa.v, N. S. She was 
born on September 28, 1818. Pier father was 
born in 1790 in Hamilton, Scotland. Eleven 
children were born to William and Eliza L. 
Moore, their names, with dates of birth, being 



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as follows: William, July 2, 1838; Frederick, 
February 11, 1840; John, January 26, 1842; 
Mary, April 11, 1844; Charlotte, June 27, 
1848; George, June 17, 1850; Robert, No- 
vembers, 1854; Bertha J., February 18, 1857; 
Henry, April 28, 1859; Edith, November 22, 
1862; Elizabeth, May 19, 1864. The sur- 
vivors are: Frederick, the subject of this 
sketch, familiarly known as Fred; Mary, the 
wife of George Van Wart ; Charlotte ; and 
Robert. Edith, one of the departed, was the 
wife of William Sipperell. 

Fred Moore, as he is commonly called, 
began working in the lumber woods for his 
father at the age of fourteen years, having 
charge of a team. He remained with his par- 
ents until 1862, when he commenced work on 
his own account in Canterbury as a farmer and 
lumberman. By dint of energetic and per- 
severing industry he has developed one of the 
best improved farms in York County, and has 
become one of the largest stock raisers and 
dealers in the county. He raises abundant 
crops of grain, and cuts from one hundred and 
twenty to two hundred tons of hay annually. 
His stock often included si.\ty-five head of 
horned cattle and ninety-six hogs. In 1882 he 
built at Canterbury the finest grist-mill in 
this part of the province, and two years later 
(1884) erected his first saw-mill in Wood- 
stock, where in i8g6 he also built his present 
well-equipped shingle-mill. He employs on 
an average one hundred and twenty-five men 
in manufacturing lumber, which sometimes 
amounts to eight million feet a year. For the 
past eight years Mr. Moore has driven all the 



logs from Grand Falls to the Fredericton boom 
limits, thus furnishing employment to two 
hundred men, exclusive of those engaged in 
farming and milling. In April, 1896, he 
formed a partnership with George H. Shea and 
Hubert Seely, under the firm name of the 
Houlton Foundry and Machine Company. 
This concern, whose plant is located in Houl- 
ton, Me., is still doing a substantial business 
under the same name, although the member- 
ship has been changed, Mr. Moore's sons, 
Charles M. and George B., having purchased 
Mr. Seely's interest. 

Mr. Moore married Lucy Ann Akerly, of 
Southampton, York County, N.B. , and they 
have four children, namely: Charles Miles; 
George Burns; Minnie, wife of Harold Grant, 
of Woodstock ; and Mary. Politically, Mr. 
Moore is a Liberal, loyal to his party, toward 
the funds of which he contributes, although he 
will not accept office. Fraternally, he is a 
member of Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M. 
Mrs. Moore attends the Baptist church. 




AMUEL KERR, senior proprietor 
//^ of St. John Business College and 
Shorthand Institute, was born in 
Cornwallis, N. S., January 10, 1843, son of 
Matthew and Eunice (Ells) Kerr. Matthew 
Kerr, who was born in the north of Ireland, 
was a son of Hugh Kerr, a farmer, who with 
his brothers, Matthew and John, came to Nova 
Scotia in 1818. Another brother, James, fol- 
lowed several years later. Hugh Kerr married 
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James, who died in Minnesota in 1886; 
Matthew, father of the subject of this sketch; 
Samuel G., of the Kerr Vegetable EvajDorating 
Company of Canning, N. S. ; Martha, who 
married George Best, of Aylesford, N. S. ; 
Jane, who became the wife of James Kerr, of 
Aylesford, N. S. ; and Sarah, who married Ben- 
jamin Newcomb, of Canning, N. S. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hugh Kerr were members of the Presby- 
terian church. The former died in 1854, at 
the age of sixty-four years. His wife survived 
him twenty years, dying in Canning at the age 
of eighty-two years. 

The Kerr family came originally from Rox- 
burghshire, in the south of Scotland, the head 
of the family being the Duke of Roxburgh. 
About the year 1690, King William granted 
lands in county Antrim, about forty miles 
north of Belfast, Ireland, as the reward of 
military services, to three brothers, George, 
Alexander, and Hugh Kerr, from Roxburgh- 
shire. The Hugh thus rewarded was the 
remote ancestor, in a direct line, each succeed- 
ing one being called Hugh, of the Hugh who 
came to Nova Scotia in 18 18. 

Matthew Kerr was trained in agricultural 
pursuits, which he followed in Cornwallis, 
N. S., during his lifetime. His wife, Eunice 
Ells Kerr, was a daughter of Benjamin and 
Mary (Eaton) Ells, both of whose parents were 
New England people who settled in Nova 
Scotia about 1760, and who were of the sixty 
original grantees of the township of Corn- 
wallis, granted by King George II. Matthew 
and Eunice Kerr were the parents of Samuel, 
of whom a separate account will be given; 



Martha, who married Rufus Huntley, of 
Stewiacke, N. S. ; Lydia, who became the wife 
of Robert Cox, of Stewiacke, N. S. ; and 
Bessie, who married Jedediah Loomer, of 
Kingsport, N.S. 

Mrs. Eunice Ells Kerr died in 1855, and 
Matthew Kerr married for his second wife 
Annie Bigelow, daughter of Ju.stus Bigelow, of 
Medford, N.S. By this union there were 
the following children: Erank, Frederick, 
Jessie, Olivia, and Grace. The father, 
Matthew Kerr, died in December, 1896, at 
the age of seventy-eight years. His second 
wife pre-deceased him five years, dying in 
1891. 

Samuel Kerr was educated in the public 
schools and high school at Canning, N.S. 
Subsequently, for four years, he was engaged 
as teacher (class one) in the public schools. 
Then he was successively employed as clerk 
and book-keeper in the offices of several mer- 
cantile and manufacturing establishments. 
Coming to St. John in 1869, he took a course 
of study in the St. John Commercial College 
under Mr. A. H. Eaton, who had founded two 
years previously what is now the oldest estab- 
lishment of the kind in the Maritime Prov- 
inces. Upon completing the course, he was 
invited by Mr. Eaton to become a teacher in 
his institution. This offer coinciding with 
Mr. Kerr's inclinations, he accejDted it, and 
held the position until the destruction of the 
college in the great fire of 1877. Subsequent 
to that event, Mr. Kerr continued the business 
as proprietor, and has been thus engaged up to 
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associated with him, having charge of the 
shorthand department. 

The plan of work outlined for the students 
in this institution is a most admirable one, and 
is worthy the attention of all those intending 
to enter upon a business or commercial career. 
It is fully described in a handbook issued annu- 
ally by the proprietors. Briefly, it includes 
both theoretical and practical training of a 
most thorough kind, adapted to the demands of 
any branch of business or commerce. Its lead- 
ing features are a thorough drilling in accounts 
and commercial calculations, daily practice in 
actual business transactions, the student being 
supplied for that purpose with a capital con- 
sisting of engraved college bank-notes, and 
merchandise, bank stocks, etc., in the shape 
of printed cards of various kinds, which he uses 
the same as if engaged in actual business; 
book-keeping in all its branches; instruction 
in banking, wholesale business methods, busi- 
ness customs, joint-stock accounts, commercial 
law, business penmanship, correspondence, 
practical grammar, spelling, shorthand, type- 
writing, etc. Altogether, the college is a 
model one of the kind, and a credit to the city 
in which it has accomplished a useful mission 
for so many years, as well as to its proprietors, 
Mr. Samuel Kerr & Son. 

Mr. Kerr was married to Miss Sarah 151enk- 
horn, a native of Canning, N. S., and daughter 
of James ]?lenkhorn, edge-tool manufacturer of 
that place. His children are: Eunice, the 
wife of D. A. McLeod, of St. John ; Sidney, 
who has been already mentioned; Kva, the 
wife of S. W. Milligan, of St. John; and 



Arthur, stenographer in the offices of the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway Company, St. John. 
Mrs. Kerr died in i88i. Mr. Kerr is a Pres- 
byterian, and a member of the session of St. 
David's Presbyterian Church 



'shames J. McGAFFIGAN, tea importer, 
St. John, was born June 17, 1849, in 
Brooklyn, N.Y. His father was con- 
nected with the wholesale tea business in New 
York City for many years, and he himself after 
completing his studies in the common schools 
of Brooklyn began the activities of life as an 
employee of a tea broker and repacker in New 
York City. He first came to New Brunswick 
in 1863, and was clerk in his uncle's store in 
Florenceville for a year, at the end of which 
time he went back to New York. Returning 
to New Brunswick in 1866, he entered the em- 
ploy of Thomas R. Jones, of St. John, in 1867; 
and in 1868 he became that merchant's travel- 
ling representative on the North Shore of New 
Brunswick, remaining in that capacity until 
May, 1876. During the next two years he was 
travelling salesman on commission for Everett 
& Butler, dry-goods dealers, and for Logan, 
Lindsay & Co., and J. H. Balfry, wholesale 
boot and shoe merchants. These firms, having 
curtailed their business on account of hea\'y 
losses by the great fire of 1877, he withdrew 
from their employ; and in 1878 he estaljlished 
himself in the wholesale tea business, which he 
has carried on successfully to the present time. 
He is an extensive importer and an expert 
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his personal acquaintance witli merchants 
throughout the Provinces has enabled him to 
build up a large trade. 

In September, 1873, Mr. McGaffigan was 
united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Davidson, 
daughter of William Davidson, of Tracadie, 
Gloucester County. Four children have been 
born of this union, namely: Ella; Minnie; 
Bessie; and Annie, who died August 28, 1898, 
aged fourteen years. 

Mr. McGaffigan is a member of the Catholic 
Mutual Benefit Association. He attends the 
Roman Catholic church. 




RTHUR WELLESLEY LOVETT, 
manager for Miller & Woodman, lum- 
ber manufacturers, St. John, was 
born in that city in 1849, son of George 
Leonard and Olivia S. Lovett. His first 
American ancestor on the paternal side came 
from Devonshire, England, early in the seven- 
teenth century, and settled in New England. 

Captain Daniel Lovett was born at Brent- 
wood, N.H., in 1753. He first came to the 
mouth of the St. John River in 1765, with his 
elder brother, Jonathan Lovett, and some years 
after they settled upon the site of the present 
city. Jonathan Lovett built the first vessel 
ever launched at St. John, and for a number of 
years he and his brother. Captain Daniel 
Lovett, commanded vessels sailing from St. 
John. On one occasion, during the war, CajD- 
tain Daniel Lovett, returning from the West 
Indies, was captured off Partridge Island, after 
a hard fight with two American privateers, and 



carried with his vessel to the States, where he 
was a prisoner of war for some time, but later 
returned to St. John. In 1783 he was Govern- 
ment Pilot for the Bay of Fundy, and in that 
capacity brought to St. John the first fleet 
which conveyed the Loyalists from their old 
homes to settle at St. John. Another brother 
was in the British army with General Wolf at 
the seige and capture of Quebec in 1759. 

In 1797 Captain Daniel Lovett retired from 
the sea, and, purchasing a property lying be- 
tween the present Canterbury Street and the 
water front, built a residence on Prince Will- 
iam Street and Lovett's Wharf on Water 
Street. He was for a number of years Harbor 
Master of St. John. He died in 1833. 

By his union with Sarah Ring, his first 
wife, there were three children: Daniel and 
Jacob, both of whom became ship-masters; and 
Sarah, who married Benjamin DeWolf, of 
Windsor, N. S. His second wife was Mary 
Torrey, of Plymouth, Mass. ; and she bore him 
one son, George Leonard, who was born in 
1807. 

George Leonard Lovett spent his life in St. 
John, was a merchant and ship-owner, and died 
in 1875. Pie married Olivia S. Prince, of 
Lawrencetown, N. S. Her father, Christopher 
Kimball Prince, was a son of Colonel Chris- 
topher Wentworth Prince of the British army. 
George Leonard Lovett was the father of 
seven children, three of whom are living, 
namely : George Frederick, who resides in 
Boston, Mass.; Louisa; and Arthur W., of 
St. John. 

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John Grammar School. For a number of years 
after the completion of his studies he was en- 
gaged in various occupations. In 1880 he 
entered the employ of Messrs. White & Wood- 
man as manager of their business in St. John, 
a position which he still fills. 




[DWAIID C. GOODEN (originally spelled 
Goodwin), of Bay Verte, Westmor- 
land County, N. B. , was born in Tidnish, 
about two miles from this town, May 7, 1828, 
a son of Isaac Gooden, and is of English 
stock. His great-grandfather Gooden, whose 
given name was Daniel, was one of four 
brothers, who emigrated from Devonshire, 
England, to Connecticut in 1751. Daniel 
Gooden served as a soldier under Colonel 
Winslow, and at one time he was sent as mes- 
senger from Fort Cumberland to Fort Monc- 
ton demanding the surrender of Colonel 
Villiers. He was with General Wolfe at the 
taking of Quebec. He was granted for his 
services large tracts of wilderness lands in 
Bay Verte and Tidnish, and he located as a 
farmer in Tidnish. He had eleven sons. 

Jonathan Gooden, one of the eleven sons of 
Daniel, settled in Tidnish. Trained to 
habits of industry and possessing an unlimited 
stock of energy, he labored faithfully during 
his long life, and met with deserved success 
in his efforts to improve a homestead. A 
man of fervent piety, he was an active mem- 
ber of the Methodist church, and frequently 
was leader in its religious services. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Chap- 



pell, was, like himself, of English descent. 
She bore him two sons and seven daughters, 
of whom the last to die was Priscilla, widow 
of the late John Phelan. 

Isaac Gooden, the eldest son of Jonathan, 
was born on the old homestead, part of which 
subsequently came into his possession, and 
there he spent his fifty-two years of earthly 
existence. He was very active in religious 
affairs and an enthusiastic worker in the 
Methodist church, of which both he and his 
wife were members. He married Annie, 
daughter of John Fawcett, of Sackville, N. B. 
Thirteen children were born of their union, 
and eleven grew to years of maturity. Of 
these si.x are now living, as follows: Eleanor, 
widow of Gustavus W. Hamilton, of Ireland; 
Edward C, the subject of this sketch; John 
F. , who married Mary Harper, of Sackville, 
N. B. ; Elizabeth, wife of Botsford Turner, of 
Port Elgin, N. B. ; Margaret, who married 
Wesley W. Fawcett, of Sackville; and Ara- 
bella, widow of the late Henry Carey. 

Edward C. Gooden in 1855 settled in Bay 
Verte, where he opened a store of general 
merchandise, which he has continued up to 
the present day. His trade having increased 
from time to time, he admitted into partner- 
ship a few years ago his son-in-law, Bedford 
Harper, the firm name becoming \l. C. 
Gooden & Co. He is a Methodist in religion, 
a Conservative in politics. For twenty-six 
years he has been Coroner of the county of 
Westmorland, and for three years he has been 
Commissioner and Secretary of the Pilotage 
Authority of Bay Verte and Port Elgin. 




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On September 12, 1850, Mr. Gooden mar- 
ried Margaret J. Carey, who was born Sep- 
tember 12, 1829, and died November 4, 1863. 
She bore him six children, of whom three are 
now living; namely, William L., Hester A., 
and Antoinette. 

William. L., who was a faithful student, 
won at Sackville College the Gilchrist 
scholarship; and in Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
at Heidelberg he won several other prizes. 
He became Doctor of Science, and for several 
years has been professor of science at Queen's 
University in Kingston, Ont. He married 
Christina, daughter of the Rev. William 
Murray, a Presbyterian minister, and has five 
children — William M., Edith C, Edward 
L., Dorothy, and Alice. Hester A. is the 
wife of Bedford Harper, and has five children 
— William B., Marion Elsie, Winifred Susan, 
Margaret, and Muriel. She is a member of 
the Methodist church and leader of the choir. 
Antoinette completed her education in Ger- 
many, and is now teacher of music in Kings- 
ton, Ont. 

Mr. Gooden and Clara Carey were married 
in 1864. They have two children living; 
namely, Ernest P. and Margaret H. Ernest 
P. is a civil engineer, married to Irene Irvine 
and having one child, Edward Maunsel, born 
May 8, 1894. Margaret is the wife of C. 
Stanley Sutherland, and has three children — 
Norman C, Wallace, and Marshall. 

The children of Edward C. Gooden, and 
also some other families in this town, have 
adopted the original spelling of the name, 
Goodwin. 



(^AMES H. PULLEN, for many years 
the leading painter and decorator of St. 
John, was born in Dover, England, in 
1837. Coming to St. John at the age of thir- 
teen years, he at once began to serve an ap- 
prenticeship at his trade. In i860 he went 
into business for himself, and by means of in- 
dustry backed by capability, soon succeeded 
in building up a lucrative trade, becoming the 
leading house painter, decorator, and sign 
painter in the city. Among the buildings 
that he worked on are the city hall, the post- 
office building, the railway station, the Parlia- 
ment building at Fredericton, besides nearly 
all of the better class of buildings in the mari- 
time provinces, as well as many in Port- 
land, Me. 

He was married in i860 to Miss Sarah A. 
James, a daughter of Humphrey James. Her 
father, now deceased, was formerly a shoe 
manufacturer of St. John, to which place he 
came from the north of Ireland. Eight chil- 
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pullen; 
namely, Clara S., Sadie A., Frederick J., Ida 
May, Jennie A., Elvira H., James H., and 
Walter C. Clara S. is the wife of J. Harry 
Pepper, of Philadelphia. Sadie A. is the 
wife of A. I", de Forest. Frederick J. died 
at the age of twenty-eight years. Ida May is 
the wife of Dr. A. A. Lewin, of Belle Isle. 
Elvira H. is now Mrs. A. P. Paterson, of St. 
John. Walter C. died at the age of three 
years and seven months. 

Politically, Mr. Pullen was a Liberal. He 
accepted the nomination as provincial candi- 
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was a member of Hibernian Lodge, A. F. & 
A. M. ; of the New Brunswick Chapter, 
R. A. M.; and of the St. John Encampment, 
K. T., of which he was Provincial Prior, 
being a thirty-second degree Mason. He also 
belonged to the I. O. O. F. and to the Union 
Club, and was president of St. George's So- 
ciety for two years. He was a vestryman of 
Trinity Church. An ardent sportsman, he 
was considered the best shot for woodcock in 
St. John. His death occurred September 25, 
1897, and was widely regretted. His wife 
died a few years previously. 

James H. Pullen, Jr., born January 3, 1876, 
was reared in St. John and educated at the 
Collegiate School, Windsor, N.S. At the 
age of fifteen years he began to learn the trade 
of painter and decorator under his father, and 
in 1S96 was admitted to partnership with 
him. On his father's death, in 1897, he suc- 
ceeded to the business, which he now carries 
on successfully. He was married November 
8, 1898, to Miss Lalage L. Bunn, a daughter 
of Charles H. Bunn, a contractor and mason 
of New York, in which city Mrs. Pullen was 
born. 

Mr. Pullen is a member of the A. F. & 
A. M., Albion Lodge; of the I. O. O. P^or- 
esters, Court La Tour, No. 125; and of St. 
George's Society. 



ANH'X FERGUSON, Collector of 
Customs at the port of Chatham, 
N.B, was born near Campbellton, 
Restigouche, N.B., April 30, 1826. He was 



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educated at Perth and Aberdeen, Scotland ; 
and, returning to his native Province, he 
studied law in the offices of Chipman Bots- 
ford, Esq., Campbellton, and George Botsford, 
Esq., Fredericton. Being admitted an attor- 
ney in 1848 and called to the bar in 1850, he 
engaged in the practice of his profession in 
Campbellton and afterward in Chatham, N. B. 
Li July, i860, he received the appointment of 
Registrar of Probates for the county of North- 
umberland. 

On March 27, 1865, he was appointed by 
the New Brunswick government Deputy 
Treasurer and Controller of Customs at the 
port of Chatham, which office he has contin- 
ued to fill till the present time under the style 
(since confederation) of Collector of Customs. 

Mr. Ferguson took a deep interest in the 
volunteer militia movement, his first commis- 
sion being as Lieutenant with rank from Feb- 
ruary 24, i860. On September 21, 1870, he 
was gazetted first Lieutenant Colonel of the 
Seventy-third Battalion, which he largely as- 
sisted in organizing; and on July 10, 1874, 
he was permitted to retire, retaining rank. 
Since 1855 he has been an active member of 
the Highland Society of New Brunswick at 
Miramichi, of which he was for a number of 
years the treasurer and afterward president. 

A warm adherent of the Presbyterian 
church, he has always taken a deep interest in 
everything affecting that denomination; and 
on the l^oard of Trustees of St. Andrew's 
Church, with which he was connected, he fre- 
quently sat as chairman. 

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Armstrong, of Sorel, C.E., daughter of the 
late Captain J. D. Armstrong, harbor master 
of Quebec. She died in 1867, leaving three 
daughters, three sons having died in child- 
hood. 

Mr. Ferguson's father, the late Robert Fer- 
guson, of Athol House, Restigouche, a na- 
tive of Logierait in Scotland, was one of the 
pioneer British settlers on the Restigouche 
River, where he began business in 1796. 
Robert Ferguson was a man of great energy 
and perseverance, and was soon carrying on a 
large business with the New England States. 
On the breaking out of the war in 18 12 his 
vessel, with a valuable cargo of fish and furs, 
was taken by an American privateer, and he 
was taken a prisoner to Salem, Mass., but re- 
leased shortly afterward. In the summer of 
1 8 14, a rumor having reached Restigouche 
that peace was restored, he started with 
another cargo for Boston, unfortunately only 
to fall into the hands of another privateer. 
This time, however, he escaped with the los3 
of only a few barrels of fish. After a life of 
hardship and adventure he died in 185 1, at 
the ripe age of eighty-three years, leaving a 
large family. Flis wife, whose maiden name 
was Mary Adams, was the first child born of 
British parents in Restigouche. 



SThe 



HE McAVITY FAMILY, of St. John, 

q j\ N.B., dates from the arrival in that 

city, in 181S, of James McAvity, his wife, 

and their four sons. He was a descendant of 

an old Scotch family, which, coming from 



Dumbartonshire, had been for several genera- 
tions settled in the north of Ireland. 

James McAvity was born in the county of 
Donegal on the 20th of May, a. d. 1766, and 
was, as his father also had been, a Magistrate 
of that county. Being a man of some distinc- 
tion, his character and popularity were such 
that during the most troublous times in his 
native land he could travel through it with- 
out fear of molestation. In 1798 he married 
Catherine Brooke, a member of that promi- 
nent and distinguished family whose ancestor 
had come from England in Queen Elizabeth's 
time, and was Governor of Donegal Town and 
Castle about the year 1641. 

Mrs. McAvity was a lady of fine attributes, 
and it was owing to her desire and influence 
that the removal to America was made. See- 
ing that the allurements of the Western world 
were then drawing many young away from 
Ireland, and thus dividing families, and be- 
lieving that her own sons, or some of them, 
would probably follow among others, she de- 
termined to avoid a separation of her children, 
and prevailed upon her husband to remove 
with their family to America. The choice of 
.St. John as their future home was probably 
m.ade as much on account of former friends 
having settled there as that the place was 
gaining a reputation for prosperity. 

On their arrival at St. John, being people 
of means and social qualifications, they 
quickly took a position among the promi- 
nent and most esteemed citizens. James Mc- 
Avity lived but little more than seven years 
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on the 13th of April, 1826, respected and re- 
gretted. His widow, whose death occurred in 
1 861, survived him for thirty-five years. 
Their four sons were: John, born in 1807; 
Thomas, born in 18 10; Alexander, born in 
1 8 14; and William, born in 18 16. 

John, the eldest son, after some years of 
mercantile life, removed to a farm in the 
vicinity of the city, and was quite successful 
in his agricultural pursuits. He married 
Miss Eliza Dickson, of Kings County, New 
Brunswick, and had four children — James, 
Charles, Joseph, and Katherine. James mar- 
ried Miss Amelia Blanche Fairweather, of 
St. John, and died January 4, 1867, leaving a 
widow and two children — Elizabeth and 
Christinia, who now reside in San Francisco. 
Charles married a daughter of James G. 
Melick, of Norton, Kings County, by whom 
he has a family living in that place; namely, 
William D., George, Herbert, Maud, and 
Catherine. Joseph is now resident in St. 
John. Katherine married Fulton Beverly, of 
Fredericton, and had a son, George Francis 
Beverly, merchant, of St. John, and a daugh- 
ter, Minnie, wife of Dr. H. Nase, dentist, 
resident in the same place. 

Alexander, the third son of James McAvity, 
was a lumber mercliant. He married Isa- 
bella, a daughter of William Dunham, who 
was a son of one of the Loyalists, original 
grantees of the city of St. John. At the age 
of thirty-three years he died in 1847. His 
wife survived until 1894. Their children liv- 
ing are: Annie, wife of David H. Waterbury, 
of St. John; Emily, wife of Robert B. Gil- 



mour, of St. John; and a son Thomas, who 
went to California, and has not been heard 
from for several years. Mrs. Waterbury has 
three sons — Harold, David H., and A. L. 
Palmer Waterbury. Mrs. Gilmour has four 
children — Emily Reed, Ednah W. , Robert 
C, and John B. Gilmour. 

William McAvity, the fourth son of James, 
was a merchant, and was a partner with his 
brother Thomas for several years. He mar- 
ried Annie, daughter of Captain Joseph 
Hamm, and died in 1859 a widower, leaving 
no children. 

Thomas, the second son, whose descendants 
are the most numerous of those who bear the 
family name in New Brunswick, or of all who 
are sprung from the common ancestor, James 
McAvity, was born on the 17th of March, 
A.u. 18 10. He was the member of the family 
who attained the most distinction in the busi- 
ness world and as a public officer in the 
affairs of the city of St. John. After having 
received the best education the schools of that 
city afforded, he began his business life, when 
quite a young man, in the hardware establish- 
ment of James Hendricks, who was a promi- 
nent citizen and business man in the early 
days of the rising town. As successor to Mr.. 
Hendricks, Mr. Thomas McAvity established 
the now widely-known house of T. McAvity 
& Sons, hardware merchants, brass founders, 
etc. , one of the largest and most successful 
firms in Canada, having an international repu- 
tation. 

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during his day, was a member of and identi- 
fied with several of the public societies and 
institutions of the city, and was for many 
years a vestryman of Trinity Church. For 
some years he sat as a member of the Com- 
mon Council, and from 1859 '^o 1863 was 
Mayor of the city. Not only his course at the 
Council Board, but all his acts as a citizen 
gave evidence that he ever had at heart the 
welfare of the whole people. The general 
recognition of this fact was probably the 
prime reason of his popularity, for he was 
reserved and undemonstrative in manner, and 
few besides his intimate friends would be 
aware that, notwithstanding his practical 
nature and occasionally somewhat austere 
bearing, he possessed great depth of feeling 
and tender sentiment. 

As an illustration of his watchful interest 
in civic affairs may be mentioned his inde- 
pendent action when, in 1850, an attempt 
was made by some persons in the community 
to have the historic "Old Burial-ground " par- 
celled out in building lots, on which occasion 
he stood out alone against all the other mem- 
bers of the Council. At one time an attempt 
was made to run a street through the grave- 
yard ; at another, to give a part of it to the 
temperance societies of the city as a site for 
a hall. The Common Council actually voted 
in support of that proposal, with but one dis- 
senting voice, that of Thomas McAvity. 
While he desired the advancement of the 
cause of temperance, he yet had to say that 
other suitable lots for the proposed hall were 
obtainable, without desecrating the old God's- 



acre, and he for one would not consent to such 
desecration. The vote was passed, however, 
but the disapproval and resentment of the 
people were so quickly and unmistakably 
shown that the Common Council had to 
rescind the resolution forthwith; and so the 
now beautiful little park was saved to the citi- 
zens. Thus Mr. McAvity had always a keen 
perception and appreciation of the ideas and 
real desires of the community. In , public 
office he was free from ostentation and moder- 
ate in manner, but firm of purpose; and his 
term of occupancy of the chief magistrate's 
chair was creditable to himself and beneficial 
to the city. He was a sincere friend, a good 
man, and a truly worthy citizen. 

His death in December, 1887, evoked an 
expression of real regret in all classes of the 
community. He had married on July 16, 
1835, Isabella Sandall, who was of Loyalist 
descent, and a lady whose qualities of mind 
and heart endeared her to every one who had 
the pleasure of her acquaintance. Her death 
occurred on the loth of January, 1886. Their 
children were eleven in number, six sons and 
five daughters. The daughters were: Mar- 
garet Sandall, wife of W. O. Stewart, of 
Hampton, Kings County; Catherine Annie, 
who died unmarried in 1882; Isabel, wife of 
Edwin N. S. Stewart, of St. John; Hannah 
Amelia, wife of F. G. Blizzard, of St. John; 
and Ella P^liza, wife of G. Herbert Flood, of 
St. John. The sons are: James Hendricks, 
Thomas, William, John Alexander, George, 
and Stephen Sinnott, all of whom are resi- 
dents of St. John, and are connected with or 



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employed in the business of T. McAvity & 
Sons. 

James Hendricks McAvity, tlie eldest son 
of Thomas McAvity, was born on the iif- 
teenth day of September, 1838. He has been 
twice married: first, on June 22, 1865, to 
Elizabeth Jane Stevenson, of Savannah, Ga., 
U.S., who was born on January 8, 1841, and 
died on April 8, 1874. By her he had three 
children: Ada Isabel Stevenson, born Au- 
gust 21, 1866, who was married September 30, 
1896, at Trinity Church, St. John, to Frank 
Eldon Came, formerly of Maiden, Mass., now 
of Montreal; James Lupton McAvity, born Oc- 
tober 8, 1867; and Thomas, born November 
2, 1868, died December 7, 1869. For his 
second wife he married at Lincoln, Me., U.S., 
on June 12, 1877, Ella Elizabeth Ayer. By her 
he had four children, namely: Alice Rebecca, 
born on May 12, 1878; Emily May, born 
March 5, 1880; Norah Clifford, born Decem- 
ber 7, 1881, died September 24, 1882; and 
Margaret Francis, born March 20, 1887. 

Mr. James H. McAvity, the oldest member 
of the present firm above mentioned, was the 
founder of its business in the manufacture of 
brass and other metal work, and lias always 
taken an active interest in that particular de- 
partment. He has been interested in the pro- 
duction of wood chemical fibre, wood pulp, 
and paper in the State of Maine. He is a 
Justice of the Peace for the city and county of 
St. John, a warden of Trinit)' Church in the 
parish of .St. Joiin, and a member of the 
Madras School Board. 

Thomas, second son of Thomas McAvity, 



was born on September, 21, 1843, and is the 
head of the existing firm of T. McAvity & 
Sons and a first-class man of business. On 
July 12, 1866, he married Elizabeth Annie, 
only child of the late Captain James Haddon, 
of St. John, and has three children, namely: 
a son, Harry H.; and two daughters, Ella 
Louise and Ethel. Mr. Thomas McAvity is 
a warden of St. John's Church, in the parish 
of St. Mark, is a director of William Parks 
& Son, Limited, and is one of the leading 
citizens of St. John. 

William, third son of Thomas McAvity, 
was born on April 29, 1846. He married on 
December 28, 1889, Annie Selwyn Collins, of 
Boston, Mass., but has no children. 

John Alexander, fourth son of Thomas Mc- 
Avity, was born on November 10, 1851. On 
November 5, 1879, he married Mary E. , daugh- 
ter of William H. Humphrey, of Yarmouth, 
Me., U.S., and has five children, namely: 
Eleanor Louise, born in 1881 ; Allan Getchell, 
born in 1882; Mabel Eldridge, born in 18S5; 
Thomas Malcolm, born in 1S89; and Emma 
Catherine, born in 1892. 

George, fifth son of Thomas McAvity, was 
born on July 21, 1S53. lie married on Feb- 
ruary I, 1887, Ida Marguerite Mills, and has 
three children; namely, Ronald Armstrong, 
George Clifford, and Rosamond Bertiia. 

Stephen Sinnott, sixth son of Thomas Mc- 
Avity, was born on June 20, 1857. He mar- 
ried on September 15, 1S89, Janet Rankine, 
of the city of St. John, and has two sons — 
Percy Douglas and Thomas Alexander, both of 
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The descendants of Thomas McAvity 
through his daughters are the following: 
children of Margaret S. , wife of W. O. 
Stewart — namely, Frances Isabel Stewart, 
Maria Louise, William Odbur (deceased), 
Margaret Amelia, Thomas McAvity, J. Percy 
Lee, and J. Westra Barnes; children of 
Isabel, wife of E. N. S. Stewart — ■ namely, 
Fred Stanley Stewart, Emma L. (who is the 
wife of F. J. G. Knowlton, of St. John, and 
has two children), Edith Stevenson, Nora 
Isabel, and George Harold Stewart; chil- 
dren of H. Amelia, wife of F. G. Blizzard 
— -Agnes Isabel Blizzard, Mary Humphrey, 
George McAvity, Winifred, and Dorothy 
Stewart; child of Ella Eliza, wife of G. Her- 
bert Flood — Carson Flood. 

There are thus now living (a.d. 1899) about 
fifty descendants of James McAvity and Cath- 
erine, his wife, who came from Ireland to St. 
John, N.B., A.D. 1818. 




ILLIAM DONALD RANKIN, 
B.A., M.D., CM., of Woodstock, 
N. B., was born there, December 8, 1864, a son 
of Francis Rankin. 

James Rankin, his paternal grandfather, 
was born September 2, 1787, in Mearns, Lan- 
cashire, Scotland, and died December 26, 
1870, in New Brunswick. In 1829, soon after 
his marriage with Marian Ferguson, of Dun- 
lop, Scotland, James Rankin came to America. 
He had nine children : James, of Seattle, 
Wash. ; Agnes, who is the widow of James 
Jarvis, and resides in Torquay, Scotland; 



Robert, of Liverpool, England, a member of 
the firm of Rankin & Gilmore, one of the old- 
est and most extensive mercantile firms of that 
city; Alexander, of London, England; Helen, 
deceased; Marian, deceased; Arthur; Francis; 
and John, also a member of the firm of Rankin 
& Gilmore in Liverpool. 

Francis Rankin was born May 17, 1841, in 
the parish of Northampton, N.B. Locating in 
the town of Grafton, he purchased his present 
estate. He married Catherine J., daughter of 
the Rev. William Donald, D.D., a Presby- 
terian clergyman of St. John, and they became 
the parents of four children, of whom three are 
.still living; namely, William Donald, Annie 
Marian, and Catherine M. The Rev. William 
Donald was born in Banffshire, Scotland, in 
1806. He was educated at Marischal College 
in Aberdeen, from which he graduated with 
the degree of Master of Arts, and in which he 
subsequently studied theology. He came to 
America to take charge of St. Andrew's Church 
in St. John, N. B. PVjr twenty-two years, or 
until his death, in 1871, he retained this pas- 
torate, and was recognized as one of the most 
prominent and able clergymen of the Pi evince. 
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him in 1S49 by Queen's College, Kings- 
ton, Ont. He married Ann Milne, of Hunt- 
ley, Scotland. 

William Donald Rankin received his prelim- 
inary education in the Woodstock Grammar 
School, and afterward entered the University 
of New Brunswick, from which he graduated 
in the class of 1886 with the degree of Bach- 
elor of Arts. He then attended medical lectr 



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ures at the Edinburgh University, Scotland, 
and in 1S90 graduated from that noted institu- 
tion with the degrees of Doctor of Medicine 
add Master' in Surgery. The following year 
Dr. Rankin returned to Woodstock. He be- 
longs to the Halifax branch of the British 
Medical Association, and is a member of 
Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M. 

Dr. Rankin married Jennie, daughter of 
Francis P. Sharpe, of this city; and they have 
two children — ^ Franclin Sharpe and Marjorie. 
The Doctor attends and supports the Anglican 
Church. 



OHN O'BRIEN, M.P.P., of Nelson, 
N.B., a general merchant and dealer in 
lumber, was born in Nelson in 1847, 
son of John and Mary (Alward) O'Brien. 
His father, a native of Waterford, Ireland, 
emigrating to New Brunswick, became one of 
the early settlers of Nelson, building one of 
the first houses in that place. He was a 
farmer by occupation. He was first married 
in this country to a Miss O'Brien, by whom 
he had four children. Subsequently he mar- 
ried for his second wife Mary Alward, a na- 
tive of Kilkenny, Ireland, who also bore him 
four children, the eldest being the subject of 
this sketch. The father died at the age of 
eighty-five years, his wife passing away at the 
age of seventy-eight. 

John O'Brien, second, in his youth ac- 
quired a knowledge of mercantile business, 
working eight years as clerk for Mr. George 
Burchell. In 1870 he established his general 
store in Nelson, where he has since done an 



excellent business. He also deals largely in 
lumber, having a crown license to cut his 
lumber. He owns the old family homestead, 
and he has enlarged the estate by purchasing 
the adjacent farm of the late Richard Sutton, 
at one time Surveyor-general of the province. 

Mr. O'Brien has been largely engaged in 
public life. He was County Councillor for 
many years, and has also served as Warden of 
the county. At the general election in iSgo 
he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, 
and was re-elected to the same office in 1892, 
1895, and again in 1899. He is a member of 
the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association, 
and is president of the Northumberland Agri- 
cultural Society, in which he takes a lively 
interest. 

Mr. O'Brien married Miss Lillian Mc- 
Peake, of Fredericton, a daughter of the late 
Patrick McPeake, a merchant and at one time 
Postmaster of that city. Mr. and Mrs. 
O'Brien have two children — John McPeake 
and Joseph Leonard. 




ILLARD O. WRIGHT, Secretary 
and Treasurer of the county of Al- 
bert, New Brunswick, son of the late Rufus 
Wright, is a well-known citizen of Hopewell 
Cape, where he was born November 19, 1S52. 
His paternal grandfather, William Wright, 
removed when a young man from Nova Scotia 
to Hopewell, N. B., and from that time until 
his decease was there employed in tilling the 
soil. William Wright's first wife, Lucy 
Stevens, bore him but one child. By his sub- 




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sequent marriage with Sarah, daiig-hter of 
James Clark, of Nova Scotia, he had eight 
children, two of whom are living; namely, 
Elizabeth and Mary Ann. Elizabeth, widow 
of the late Winkworth Brewster, of Hopewell 
Hill, has one child, William, who married 
Florence Moore, and has two children — Julia 
and Herbert. Mary Ann, widow of Captain 
David Stiles, has five children — Mary, Lucy, 
Henrietta, Sarah, and Isabel. Hugh, who is 
now deceased, served for forty-three years as 
Collector of Rates for the parish of Hope- 
well. He married Rebecca Fearbury, and 
five children born of their union are living, 
namely: Eliza, wife of Leander Elliott, who 
has one child, Mabel E. ; Wilmot; Lucy, wife 
of Hueston Stewart, who has one child, Robert 
IL ; Alice; and Rufus, Jr. 

Rufus \Vright was born in Hopewell, and 
for many years was an important factor in the 
development of its industrial interests. A 
shoemaker by trade, he built up an extensive 
business, which necessitated the employment 
of a large force of hands; and until his death, 
when but forty years old, he was one of the 
leading shoe manufacturers of this locality, 
and was likewise prominently itlentified with 
its shipping trade. A man of true Christian 
zeal, he was an active member of the Baptist 
church, and for a number of years served as 
Deacon. He married Mary M. Calkins, 
daughter of James Calkins, Jr. ; and she is 
still living, making her home with her only 
child, Willard O. Her paternal grandfather, 
James Calkins, Sr. , was born in Horton, 
N.S. , but in early life became a resident of 



Hopewell, wiiere he engaged in general farm- 
ing until his death, at an advanced age. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
Wickwan, lived to the age of ninety years. 
Of their seven children James, Jr., was the 
third son. 

James Calkins, Jr., succeeded to the occu- 
pation to which he was trained, and spent his 
seventy-si.x years of active life on a farm in 
Lower Hopewell. Of his union with Ann 
Wells six children were born, three of whom 
survive, namely: Eliza, widow of Joseph 
Calhoun; Asenath A., widow of the Rev. 
E. F. Foshay; and Mary M. Mrs. Calhoun 
has two children — Annie H. and Whitney E. 
Annie H. Calhoun married Benjamin Bray, 
and has two children living: Arthur B. ; and 
Ivah J., wife of Willis C. Newcomb. Whit- 
ney E. Calhoun married Carrie McNichols, 
and has three children — William C, W., 
and Joseph. Mrs. Foshay also has three chil- 
dren; namely, the Rev. Herbert J., the Rev. 
Milford, and Mary Olive. 

Willard O. Weight was a pupil in the pub- 
lic schools of Hopewell Cape until he was 
twelve years old, when he went to Carieton, 
city of St. John, where he pursued his studies 
for a while. On his return home he shipped 
before the mast as a sailor, and during his life 
on the ocean made many voyages to foreign 
countries, going the latter part of the time as 
mate of the vessel. Twice he suffered ship- 
wreck, once off the coast of the West Indies 
and once on the American coast. After these 
hard experiences Mr. Wright decided that 
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better prepare himself for his future career he 
entered the college at Wolfville, N.S. , from 
which he graduated in 1878. He subse- 
quently taught school one term in Hillsboro 
and a year in Hopewell, when he resigned to 
accept in 1879 his present position as Secre- 
tary and Treasurer of the county, with his 
office at Hopewell Cape, the shire town. 
His long term of service in this capacity is 
speaking evidence of the ability and faithful- 
ness with which he has discharged his various 
ofificial duties. He is also Deputy Registrar 
of Deeds, a Justice of the Peace, and Parish 
Courts Commissioner. Fraternally, he is a 
member and the financial secretary of 
Demoiselle Court, I. O. F. , No. 1546, of 
Plopewell. 

On October i, 1883, Mr. Wright married 
Sadie Burgess, of Nova Scotia. They have 
had six children, of whom five are living; 
namely, Mary E. , Maggie C. , Rufus S. , 
Willard W. , and Leopold. 



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ANHiL JORDAN, O.C, was born 
^ . in the city of St. John, N. B. , on 
July 31, 1845, 'i"cl was a son of 
Daniel and Isabella (VVilmot) Jordan. His 
ancestors on his father's side were natives of 
Edinburgh, Scotland, who came out and set- 
tled in America, and subsequently came to 
New Brunswick with the Loyalists in 17S3; 
and on his mother's side one branch of his an- 
cestors were of direct descent from the " men of 
the 'Mayflower.'" Mr. Jordan's father was 
born in the city of St. John in 1798. After 



obtaining a common-school education, he en- 
tered into mercantile life, at which he re- 
mained until the Provincial Savings Bank was 
established in St. John, when he was ap- 
pointed the cashier in that institution, and 
continued as such until such bank became a 
Dominion institution and placed into the con- 
trol of the Dominion government. He was 
appointed assistant receiver-general under the 
new management, and remained in such office 
until his retirement in 1870. He died May 
I, 1872. His wife, Isabella, was a native of 
Fredericton, in said Province, and was a 
daughter of William Wilmot and a sister of 
the Hon. Lemuel Allan Wilm.ot, at one time 
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the 
Province and subsequently the first Provincial 
Governor of the Province under confederation. 
An ancestor, Lemuel Wilmot, was a British 
officer in the Revolutionary War. Isabella 
Wilmot Jordan died on January 3, 1874. She 
left her surviving son, Daniel, the subject of 
this sketch, and one daughter, Mrs. Thomas 
\Vilder Daniel, widow of the late T. \\'. 
Daniel, of St. John. 

Having completed liis course in the gram- 
mar school of St. John under the late Janies 
Patterson, Ph.D., Mr. Jordan, at the age of 
seventeen years, began the study of the law in 
the office of Bayard & Thomson, was admitted 
an attorney in February, 1867, and a barrister 
in the following year. In 1868 (Mr. Bayard 
having died) he became a partner of Mr. S. R. 
Thomson, O.C, his former principal, and 
continued as such for several years. After 
the great fire in St. John in 1877, Mr. Jordan 



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removed to Fredericton, and after success- 
fully practising there for seventeen years re- 
turned to St. John, and is now residing in 
Sackville, N. B. , where he is transacting a 
large and lucrative business. In iSgi Mr. 
Jordan was appointed by the Dominion gov- 
ernment a Queen's Counsel, and in iSgg he 
was appointed to the same position by the 
Provincial government. He is president of 
the Barristers' Society of his native Province, 
and has been one of its examiners for a num- 
ber of years. 

In December, 1892, Mr. Jordan was mar- 
ried to Janet I. Gumming, of Fredericton, a 
daughter of the late Alexander Gumming, a 
native of Scotland. 

Mr. Jordan was made a Mason in Albion 
Lodge, and is now Past Master of Hiram 
Lodge, a member of Carleton Chapter, Royal 
Arch Masons., and of the St. John Command- 
ery of Knights Templar. He also belongs to 
Graham Lodge of Orangemen, and is a mem- 
ber of the Scarlet Chapter; and is Past Chief 
Ranger of Court Milicete, Independent Order 
of Foresters. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian church. 



61 HE TAPLEY FAMILY, of which sev- 
e]J_ eral members are prominently identified 
with the business interests of St. John, 
is descended from James Robert Tapley, a 
sturdy mariner and Loyalist, who was a native 
of Providence, R.I. When a young man he 
was taken ill in the city of Cork, Ireland, 
where he was sojourning; and prior to his de- 



parture he married a Miss O'Brien, of that 
place. Coming to New Brunswick with his 
bride, he settled upon a tract of land in Sun- 
bury County, where he was engaged in farming 
for the rest of his life. James Robert Tapley 
died at the age of forty-five years, and his wife 
lived to an advanced age. He was the father 
of six children, namely: William, who went 
to sea when a young man, and was never heard 
from ; John, who died in Sunbury County at 
the age of over eighty years ; David ; Ann, 
who married John S. Brown, a Loyalist, who 
came to New Brunswick when thirty-seven 
years old, and lived to be ninety-four ; Mary, 
who married Joseph Buswell, of Bangor, Me. ; 
and James, who was a farmer of Sheffield, 
N. B. , and died in November, 1864. 

David Tapley was born in Sunbury County 
in 1791. He was in early life a farmer; and, 
moving to St. John in 1S47, he was engaged in 
the lumber business until his death, which oc- 
curred November 30, iS6g. In 1820 he mar- 
ried Hannah Fletcher, a native of Nova Scotia. 
She became the mother of ten children, 
namely: David, who died July 18, 1895; 
John, a lumberman, who died in this city Feb- 
ruary 16, 1893; Jeru.sha, who married Thomas 
Bagnell, and died July 23, 1886; Mary, who 
died at the age of fifteen years; Robert, who 
went to Australia in 1853, and is now living 
in New Zealand; Archibald Coombs Lowell, a 
prominent business man of St. John; Daniel 
F. , who is in company with the last named; 
Hannah, widow of Shadrach Holly; Ann, 
widow of George F. Brown, who died August 
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The mother died in i866. David Tapley, 
the younger, was a member of the legisla- 
ture; and he also served as a Magistrate in 
Portland, N. B. A sketch of his life appears 
in this volume. 

Archibald Coombs Lowell Tapley married 
Eunice Brown, of St. John, N.B., a daughter 
of John and Nancy (Tapley) Brown. Of this 
union were born the following-named children : 
George, Gaspard, Helen, Charles H., Mari- 
etta, Arthur, Louise, Katharine, and Margery. 

David Tapley, the elder, was deeply inter- 
ested in the temperance cause and a firm be- 
liever in total abstinence. Archibald and 
Daniel F. Tapley, who now compose the firm 
of Tapley Brothers, carry on an extensive lum- 
ber business in St. John, and also own a line 
of tug-boats. 




EORGE O. DICKSON OTTY, 



■^ I barrister-at-law of St. John, was 
born January i6, 1855, son of William 
Arando Dickson and Theresa Zobieski Dick- 
son. In 1873 he assumed the additional sur- 
name of Otty under decree of the Supreme 
Court in Equity, having been adopted in in- 
fancy by his uncle, George Otty, for whom he 
was named. 

He is a descendant of Joseph Dickson, a na- 
tive of New York State, born April 11, 
1750, who came to New Brunswick with the 
Loyalists in 1783. Joseph Dickson was a 
descendant of a Scotch border family from 
Ro.xborough, Scotland. His commission as 
Second Lieutenant, signed by Sir Guy Carle- 



ton (afterward Lord Dorchester), is now 
(1899) in the possession of his descendant, 
George O. Dickson Otty. He served 
throughout the American Revolution. After 
coming to New Brunswick he settled in 
Hampton Parish. He died in 1840, and was 
buried in Kingston. His wife, Susannah, was 
born January 13, 1752. They had six chil- 
dren, namely: Esther, who married Captain 
John Oldham, of the Royal Navy; Joseph, 
who married Sarah Fairweather; Samuel 
Lockwood, who married Deborah Smith; 
William Augustus, born December 12, 1789, 
who married January 24, 181 5, Margaret 
Davis Fowler, a daughter of Captain D. and 
Johanna (Wolsey) Fowler; Richard S., who 
married Elizabeth Darling; and Maria S. , 
who became the wife of Thomas Trenholm. 

William Augustus Dickson succeeded to the 
homestead. He married Margaret D. Prowler, 
as above stated. His eldest son, Charles 
Theodore, married first Mary Snyder, by whom 
he had two daughters: Charlotte, who married 
J. B. Hammond; and Eliza, who became the 
wife of Mr. Justice E. L. Wetmore of the 
Supreme Court of the North-west Territories, 
Canada. Charles Theodore Dickson married 
second Nancy, daughter of Adino Paddock, 
M.D. 

Richard Sylvester, second son of William 
Augustus Dickson, married liUen A. Brittain, 
and their chilch-en were: Le Baron, who served 
as a Lieutenant in the artillery in the Federal 
army during the American Civil War; Walter 
L. ; Julia; Ernest; Frank; and Arnold. 

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William Augustus Dickson, born May 9, 
1819, married August i r, 1842, Theresa 
Zobieski Earle, daughter of Sylvester Zobieski 
Earle, M.D. Their children were: Sylvester 
Zobieski, of Dunellen, N.J. ; William Howard; 
Jessie E. ; George Otty; John Edward Earle; 
Margaret Louise; and Anne Lawrence. 

Theresa Z. Dickson, the wife of William 
Arando Dickson, was a daughter, as has been 
said, of Dr. Sylvester Z. Earle. The latter 
was a descendant of Edward Earle, who set- 
tled in New Jersey in 1676, in which year 
he purchased Senacus Island, N.J., from a 
Dutch patentee. This island is about seven 
miles long and from a mile to a half-mile 
wide. It was then said to be "one of the 
bravest plantations in New Jersey. " The ser- 
vants included "Christians and Negroes." 
In the thirty-sixth year of Charles II., Mr. 
Edward Earle, Colonel Lewis Morris, Cap- 
tain Thomas Codington, and others, were ap- 
pointed Justices of Peace for Bergen County. 
In the commissions they were desired to in- 
quire concerning "all Murthers, Fellonies, In- 
chant""% Sorceryes, Magicks, trespasses, and 
extortions whatsoever." In 1694 Edward 
Earle was a member of the House of Dele- 
gates of New Jersey, and in 1698 was speaker 
pro tern. 

His son Edward married February 13, 1688, 
Alice V'reelandt. He was appointed High 
Sheriff of Bergen County, New Jersey, Octo- 
ber, 1692. His children were: Edward, 
Marmaduke, John, Hannah, William, Alice, 
Thomasia, Philip, Theodosia, Sylvester, and 
Nathaniel. 



Sylvester Earle, above mentioned, married 
Mathilda, grand-daughter of Alberdt Saborow- 
ski, who emigrated from Poland in 1662. 
Their children were: Christina, Elsie, Sophia, 
John, Hannah, Justus, Elizabeth, and Ed- 
ward. 

Justus Earle, son of the above-named Syl- 
vester, was born August 19, 1749. He was 
commissioned as Lieutenant of Third Battal- 
ion, Skinner's Brigade, during the Revolu- 
tionary War. His commission (signed by Sir 
Henry Clinton) is now, 1899, in possession of 
George O. Dickson Otty. He came to Grand 
Point, Queens County, N.B. , with the Loyal- 
ists in 1783. Justus Earle married Septem- 
ber 6, 1778, Anne Lawrence, daughter of 
Colonel Richard Lawrence, of Richmond 
County, Staten Island, N. Y. Colonel Law- 
rence, who was an officer in the Loyalist 
army, after the Revolutionary War went to 
England, where he died at Mottingham, Kent, 
May 25, 1789, and was buried at Eltham. 
The children of Justus and Anne Earle were 
as follows: Richard Lawrence; Sylvester 
Zobieski; John, who was a member of the 
Legislative Council of New Brunswick; Mary; 
and Sophia Matilda. 

Sylvester Zobieski Earle, son of the above- 
named Justus, was born March 16, 1791, and 
studied medicine in New York City. While 
there the War of 18 12 broke out, and all 
British subjects were temporarily ordered to 
go sixty miles from headquarters. Mr. Earle 
thereupon went to Poughkeepsie, and there 
met Maria Hughson, whom he married De- 
cember 9, 1813. After his graduation he 



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settled in Kings County, New Brunswick, 
and there practised liis profession. He rep- 
resented Kings County in tlie Legislature for 
many years. His children were: William 
Hughson, now of Rutherford, N.J.; Justus; 
John; Frederick; Theresa Zobieski ; and 
Eliza. Theresa married William Arando 
Dickson, as above stated; and Eliza married 
George Otty, son of Captain Allen Otty, 
R.N. 

Captain Allen Otty, R. N., was a son of 
William and Sarah (Allen) Otty. He saw 
much service in the Napoleonic wars, and 
also served against the United .States in the 
War of 1812. He married Elizabeth Crook- 
shank, and their children were: Andrew, who 
was Colonel and Brigade Major of the eighth 
military district, Canada; George, who mar- 
ried Eliza Earle; Allen C, who married 
Phoebe Palmer; Thomas, who was a Lieuten- 
ant in the Royal Navy, and was lost in the 
wreck of "H. M. S. Avenger" in the Medi- 
terranean Sea; Catherine, who married Syl- 
vester Earle, Jr., M.D. ; Henry P., who mar- 
ried Henrietta Howe; Robert, who was Major 
and Adjutant in the PZighth Princess Louise 
Hussars, and who married Hannah Hallett; 
John McGill; and William, who married Sarah 
Ingledew. 



(^AMES FLEMING, late proprietor of 
the Phceni.x Foundry, St. John, was 
born in this city, December 31, 1841, 

and died on October 10, 1899. He was a son 

of George and Barbara (Massie) Fleming. 

His father, who was born in Dysart, Fife- 



shire, Scotland, in the year 1800, learned the 
machinist's trade in the old country, and, 
emigrating to New Brunswick when a young 
man, was for a short time employed at the old 
Albion coal mine. 

The Phceni.x Foundry was established in 
1835 by George Fleming in company with 
Thomas Barlow and John Stewart. The orig- 
inal firm was later succeeded by that of Flem- 
ing & Humbert, and in 1869 George Fleming 
purchased his partner's interest. He ad- 
mitted his sons, James and William, to part- 
nership the following year; and he was ac- 
tively connected with the business until his 
death, which occurred in 1886. He was one 
of the organizers of the Mechanics' Institute. 
In his religious belief he was a Presbyterian, 
and was a Deacon of St. David's Church. He 
married Barbara Massie, a native of Glasgow, 
Scotland. She came to this Province with 
her brother, Alexander Massie, who was for 
many years a well-known hatter in St. John. 
George Fleming was the father of eight chil- 
dren, five of whom lived to maturity, namely: 
William, who died in 1894; James, the sub- 
ject of this sketch; Helen J., wife of Nixon 
Moore, of Lyim, Mass. ; Captain Robert IL, 
who was in the Bay service on the steamer 
"Monticello" for many years; and Charles, 
who died in 1877. The mother died in 1889. 

James Fleming at the age of fifteen years 
entered his father's foundry as an apprentice, 
and after completing the customary initiatory 
term of service he was employed for the suc- 
ceeding ten years as a journeyman. As above 
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admitted to partnership by tlieir father in 
1S70. After his father's death James Flem- 
ing purchased the interests of the other heirs, 
and carried on under its present name of the 
Phcenix Foundry what is now the oldest indus- 
try of its kind in the city, by his ability and 
progressive tendency maintaining its high 
reputation as an iron-working establishment. 
The plant still occupies its original site on 
Pond Street. 

In 1866 Mr. Fleming married Miss Eliza- 
beth Louisa Smith, daughter of W. Y. Smith, 
a native of New Brunswick and a resident of 
St. John. Mr. Fleming is survived by his 
wife and four children : George Warren ; Her- 
bert James; Mary Massie, wife of William H. 
Nase, of Indiantown ; and Walter MacRae 
Fleming. The sons have succeeded to the 
business in which they were -engaged with 
their father. 

Mr. Fleming was a member of the St. An- 
drew's Society. In religion a Presbyterian, 
he attended St. Stephen's Church, and served 
as a trustee. 



(cjYOHN NIVEN, harbor master and ship- 
ping master for the port of Newcastle, 
N. B., is a native of Scotland. He 
was born on August 6, 1828, in the parish of 
Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, where his father, 
Colin Niven, was a prominent farmer. 

Colin Niven and his wife, Mary Rankin, 
with six children, three boys and three girls, 
emigrated in 1839 ^^'^ settled at North Esk, 
Miramichi, Northumberland County, N.B. A 



few years later the family removed to New- 
castle, where the father died in 1869. John 
was the third-born child. His brothers and 
sisters who came to America with their 
parents were: James, Grace, Elizabeth, Ann, 
and Colin. Three other sisters, Elice, 
Agnes, and Mary — older than the subject of 
this sketch — died in Scotland and were 
buried there. 

Colin Niven was sent to America by the 
Duchess of Leeds, who was an American lady 
from Baltimore, a member of the Carroll 
family, from which came Charles Carroll, one 
of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. The duchess had furnished Mr. Niven 
with letters of introduction to prominent 
people in the State of Illinois, expecting him 
to settle there; but he allowed himself to be 
persuaded by others to come to Canada 
instead. 

John Niven learned the trade of tanning 
and currying in Newcastle, and in 1851 went 
to Scotland and worked in Edinburgh, ac- 
quainting himself more thoroughly with the 
various processes of the art of converting 
skins into leather. Returning to Newcastle, 
he began business for himself as a tanner 
and currier, and carried it on for thirty 
years. In 1862 he was appointed a Justice of 
the Peace, and in 1872 he went to Scotland 
as emigration agent for the Dominion of Can- 
ada. He was appointed harbor master for the 
port of Newcastle in 1873, police magistrate 
for the town of Newcastle in 1877, and ship- 
ping master in 1893. All these offices he 
holds at the present time (September, 1899). 



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He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
St. James' Presbyterian Church, and is presi- 
dent of the Highland Society of New Bruns- 
wick at Miramichi. 

Mr. Niven married in 1865 Jean Harris, 
daughter of George Harris, Esq., who came to 
New Brunswick from Pictou, N. S. , in 1824. 
Mrs. Niven was born in Quebec, and is of 
Scotch descent. Her ancestors removed from 
Pennsylvania, their original home in Amer- 
ica, to Nova Scotia in 1775, at the outbreak 
of the Revolutionary War, and were amcng 
the earlier settlers of Pictou. Her paternal 
grandfather, Thomas Harris, was Sheriff of 
Pictou Coimty for twenty years, and the office 
has been held by members of the family ever 
since the county was organized. Mrs. 
Niven's mother, whose name in maidenhood 
was Catherine Hay, was the daughter of An- 
drew Hay and a native of Miramichi. Andrew 
Hay was born in Scotland, and his wife, whose 
maiden name was Laing, was also of a Scotch 
family. His mother was a Stuart. Mr. and 
and Mrs. Niven have no children. 



(SHAMES F. HAMH^TON, proprietor of 
Hamilton's Mills, an extensive lumber 
manufacturer, St. John, was born in 
Portland, Me., in October, 1839. He is the 
son of Charles Hamilton, the veteran lumber 
manufacturer, who also is a native of Port- 
land, and was born in January, 18 13. 

At the age of fourteen Charles Hamilton 
entered the lumber business on the Saco 
River, and later became a prominent saw-mill 



owner. He afterward operated mills on the 
Androscoggin and St. Croix Rivers, and in 
1870 he purchased the Petrie Mills in St. 
John. He carried on a large business for a 
period of twenty-five years, the greater part of 
the time being in partnership with his son; 
and after the mills were burned, in 1892, he 
relinquished the cares of business. Charles 
Hamilton retired from the lumber manufactur- 
ing industry after having followed it continu- 
ously for sixty-eight years, and well deserves 
the title of veteran, which has been applied 
to him. He is still vigorous and active, both 
physically and mentally, and bids fair to 
mingle with his numerous friends and ac- 
quaintances for many years to come. He 
married Miss Adeline Dunn, of Portland, 
Me., daughter of Moses Dunn. Her father 
was the representative of a highly reputable 
New England family. He lived to be ninety- 
four years old. Mrs. Hamilton died in 1878, 
leaving one son, her only child, James F., the 
subject of this sketch. 

James F. Hamilton entered the flour and 
grain business in Portland when he was a 
young man, and followed it until 1S61. 
Being then appointed Paymaster in the United 
States Navy, he served upon the Mississippi 
River for three years during the Civil War, 
and was afterward stationed on the Pacific 
coast, where he remained about ten years. 
Resigning his commission in 1S74, he joined 
his father in St. John, and continued with 
him as a partner until the destruction of the 
plant in 1892, as mentioned above. He has 
rebuilt the mills since that time, and for the 




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past four years he has conducted business 
alone. 

In 1S72 Mr. Hamilton was united in mar- 
riage with Abbie Russell, of Portland. They 
have one son, Charles Russell Hamilton. 

Mr. Hamilton possesses the confidence and 
good will of his business associates in his 
adopted city, and is highly esteemed by a 
large circle of friends in the United States. 
He is a member of the Masonic, order, and be- 
longs to Albion Lodge, No. i, St. John. 



(^OHN MENZIES, of Newcastle, in- 
spector under the Canadian Temper- 
ance Act, was born in Miramichi, 
Northumberland County, N.B., in 1835, son 
of John and Mary Ann (Forsythe) Menzies. 
His father, a native of Dumfriesshire, Scot- 
land, came to New Brunswick in 1823, and 
settled on the north-west branch of the Mi- 
ramichi River. 

For some years he, the elder John Menzies, 
was engaged in the ship-building industry. 
Later he gave his attention to agriculture and 
to lumbering during the winter season, which 
occupations he followed the remainder of his 
life. He also had a mail contract when the 
mail was first established between Redbank 
and Newcastle. He married Mary Ann For- 
sythe, daughter of Robert Forsythe, a Loyal- 
ist, who went to New Brunswick from the 
English colonies in the South in 1783, at the 
close of the American Revolution, and set- 
tled on the St. John River. They were the 
parents of eight sons and four daughters, 



namely : Jane, now deceased, who was the 
wife of Charles Summers; Elizabeth, who 
married Charles Summers after the death of 
her sister; John, whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch; Robert, a resident of the 
State of New York; Catherine, now deceased, 
who was the wife of John Forsythe; Annie, 
wife of Edward Carleton, of Boston; Peter, 
who is deceased; Archibald, who resides on 
the old homestead; Charles, who is deceased; 
David, Albert, and William, all three of 
whom are residing in California. John Men- 
zies, Sr., the father, died in 1878, at the age 
of sixty-seven years. His wife, who survived 
him nine years, died at the age of sixty-eight, 
in 1887. 

John Menzies, second, was reared on his 
father's farm, and educated in the district 
school. When a young man he went to the 
United States, where for two years he was en- 
gaged in lumbering, spending at this occupa- 
tion one year in Maine and one in Pennsyl- 
vania. Subsequently returning home, he 
engaged in farming in his native province, 
and also for several years he shipped fish from 
Newcastle to the United States, doing a large 
business in this line. Then, in company with 
A. Adams, he engaged in railroad contract 
work for the local and Dominion government. 
Subsequently he carried on a lumber business 
until 1892, when he was appointed inspector 
under the Canadian Temperance Act, which 
position he has since filled most capably. 

Mr. Menzies was married in July, 1855, to 
Miss Barbara McKay, a daughter of Robert 
McKay, who was a descendant of one of the 



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early Loyalist settlers of the province. Mr. 
and Mrs. Menzies are the parents of four chil- 
dren, namely: Mary Jane, the widow of 
George Rogers; Allen, a resident of the State 
of Nebraska; Edward, who resides at the 
homestead; and Barbara, who is the wife of 
Watson Sheppard, of the State of Nebraska. 
Mr. Menzies belongs to the Order of Orange- 
men, Lodge No. 47, of Newcastle. Politi- 
cally, he is a Liberal. 




ILLIAM KILBY REYNOLDS. 

The St. John suspension bridge is 
unique among great public structures in hav- 
ing been originated by one man, primarily as 
a matter of personal convenience and at his 
own financial risk. That man was the late 
William Kilby Reynolds, who was also the 
originator of the St. John Street Railway and 
the Shore Line Railway, that connects St. 
John with St. Stephen, on the borders of 
Maine, and is likely to be the short route 
between the Maritime Provinces and Boston. 
Mr. Reynolds was a native of Pembroke, 
Me. He was descended from Robert Reynolds, 
one of the early Pilgrims who sought a home 
in New England, who was an inhabitant of 
Boston in 1632, was a freeman in the year 
1634, and died in Boston in April, 1659. 
Robert Reynolds owned the lot on Milk Street 
now marked as the "]5irthplace of Franklin " ; 
and it was in the Reynolds house, while Josiah 
Franklin was the tenant of Robert's son Na- 
thaniel, that Benjamin P^ranklin was born in 
1706. The names of descendants of Robert 



Reynolds are found as active participants in 
King Philip's War, the Revolutionary War, 
the War of 18 12, and the great Civil War. 

Nathaniel Reynolds, the grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, was living at Fort Cum- 
berland, N. S., when the Revolutionary War 
began; but, sympathizing with the revolted 
colonies, he espoused their cause, removing 
his family to Maine, where they settled at 
Pembroke. His son Jonathan married Persis 
Wilder; and one of the sons by this marriage 
was William Kilby, who was born at Pem- 
broke, July 5, 1 8 10. Owing to the condition 
of that part of the country in those times, the 
boy received a very ordinary education; but 
he early showed himself to be possessed of 
great natural ability. He was a born me- 
chanic, with remarkable inventive and con- 
structive talents; and he was prompt with new 
ideas in whatever he undertook. When a mere 
youth he carried out the largest building con- 
tracts in that part of Maine, including some 
large churches and the stone dam at the Pem- 
broke Iron Works. Of regular habits, he soon 
acquired the means to enable him to engage in 
more extensive operations; and in the year 
1844 he purchased the large mill property at 
Lepreau, N. B., removing with his wife and 
family to the city of St. John. He had then 
been eleven years married to Caroline M. De- 
laney, of Londonderry, N. S., a grand-daughter 
of James Woodman, one of the well-known pre- 
Loyalist settlers of the township of Conwaj', 
St. John, whose lands were in the vicinity of 
what is now the village of Fairville. 

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Mr. Reynolds to spend Sunday with his family, 
driving to Leprcau, a distance of twenty-five 
miles, early in the week, and returning to the 
city on Saturday night. As his return was 
frequently at an hour too late to cross the har- 
bor by the ferry, he would be compelled to 
leave his horse in Carleton and make the pas- 
sage in a small boat. The necessity for a 
bridge across the river had long been felt; but 
two attempts that had been made in this direc- 
tion had been unsuccessful, and in 1849 '^'"'s 
problem was still to be solved. 

One stormy Saturday night in the early part 
of the year last named, Mr. Reynolds was 
crossing the harbor in a row-boat when the 
thought of a bridge came to his mind with 
special force, and refused to be driven away. 
"Is it not possible to have a bridge.''" he 
continued to ask himself many times that night 
and the next day. Early Monday morning he 
made a visit to the shores and hills around the 
mouth of the river St. John. When he reached 
Split Rock, at the Falls, he studied the situa- 
tion for a few moments, and exclaimed, "This 
is the place for a bridge; and, with the help of 
God, I will build one!" 

This was the beginning of a daring enter- 
prise. A comparative stranger in the country, 
a man of very moderate means, but armed with 
a most resolute nature and a wonderful faith, 
he undertook to build what was to be one of 
the largest suspension bridges in the world, 
taking the whole risk and responsibility upon 
himself. Procuring a charter from the Legis- 
lature, he opened a stock list. In the agree- 
ment with the stockholders he undertook to 



build a suspension bridge at a cost of eighty 
thousand dollars; but not one dollar of the 
money was to be paid in to him imtil the 
bridge was completed, tested, and passed by 
the government engineer. Then one-half was 
to be paid, and the remainder in three, six, 
nine, and twelve months. If he failed to carry 
out his contract, the stockholders could lose 
nothing. Even under these extraordinary con- 
ditions, it was hard to get people to give the 
sanction of their names; and, when the first 
stock list was closed, the amount not taken up, 
and therefore assumed by Mr. Reynolds, was 
thirty-three thousand five hundred and eighty 
dollars, or considerably more than one-third of 
the total capital. Then the work was pushed 
forward, with Edward W. Serrell, of New 
York, as the engineer. The bridge was opened 
on the first day of January, 1853, and paid a 
dividend of six per cent, from the start. It is 
now owned by the Provincial government, and 
it has been well termed the monument of the 
man by whom it was undertaken and com- 
pleted. 

In the year 1854 Mr. Reynolds built on his 
property at Lepreau a water-power saw-mill, 
which proved to be the finest and fastest in 
New Brunswick. Several mechanical ideas 
first used in it have since become common to 
all mills. This mill was leased by King & 
Gibson and later by Alexander Gibson alone; 
and it was there he laid the foundation of the 
great fortune the results of which are seen 
at Marysville, opposite Fredericton. In the 
meanwhile, Mr. Reynolds invested largely in 
other enterprises, one of which was the pur- 



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chase of several thousand acres of Nova Scotia 
gold fields, including the spot at Tangier 
where the first discovery of gold was made in 
that province. At Lepreau, among other works, 
he had a brickyard, a spool-wood factory, a 
shingle mill, and an axe and axle factory. 
He also built a vessel. By some of these en- 
terprises, however, he was a loser to a large 
amount. 

In 1S57 Mr. Reynolds undertook to build a 
bridge across St. John Harbor by way of Navy 
Island. A survey was made, the plans were 
drawn, and a bill for the incorporation of 
a company passed the House of Assembly. 
It was, however, defeated in the Legislative 
Council by the influence of one member, a St. 
John property owner, who thought it would 
injure his interests. A few years later he 
begged Mr. Reynolds to revive the project, but 
it was then too late. Had Mr. Reynolds been 
allowed to proceed, he would have built, forty 
years ago, the bridge for which the people of 
St. John are clamoring in vain at the present 
time. 

In 1,872 Mr. Reynolds obtained a charter for 
the Grand Southern Railway from St. John to 
St. Stephen by the shore or direct route to the 
United States. This, he believed, must in 
time be the great through route to the United 
States. In the following year he handed over 
the charter to a company that had been organ- 
ized, remarking tliat it had been the dream of 
his life to see this line through to Boston and 
Montreal, and that he looked for the day when 
St. John would be the winter port of the Do- 
minion. The Grand Southern was completed 



in 1880, and is now operated as the Shore 
Line Railway. In the year igoo legislation 
was obtained for the construction of an inter- 
national bridge over the river St. Croix, to 
connect the Shore Line with the Washington 
County and Maine Central railways, thus giv- 
ing a realization to the dream of Mr. Reynolds 
more than a quarter of a century ago. 

The first street railway in St. John was 
originated, built, and at the outset operated by 
Mr. Reynolds in the year 1870. It was a 
horse railway, but it appears to have been 
ahead of its time; for the stock, of which Mr. 
Reynolds retained a large amount, paid no 
dividends. The road was operated only a few 
years; but it was under its charter that the 
later street railway was built, the evolution of 
which is the electric service of to-day. 

Mr. Reynolds obtained patents on a number 
of inventions, one of which was a one-rail 
railway in 1872, the principle of which has 
been adopted by later inventors in this line. 
In his own manufacturing operations the labor- 
saving and other devices that he was continu- 
ally inventing would make a lengthy list. He 
was, as has been said, a natural mechanic, with 
a quick eye for a fault in any kind of construc- 
tion. When the first sod of what is now the 
Intercolonial Railway was turned at St. John 
in 1853, there was a grand ball in honor of the 
event, a building being fitted up for the occa- 
sion. During the afternoon of that day Mr. 
Reynolds chanced to visit the building; and, 
on looking at, the orchestra gallery, he saw 
that it was built on a wrong mechanical prin- 
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in charge, and urged that further supports be 
adtled; but the gallery was allowed to remain 
as it had been designed. In the midst of the 
festivities that night the gallery fell with a 
crash, killing" one man, crippling a young lady 
for life, and badly injuring others. The ad- 
vice of Mr. Reynolds was remembered too late. 

Mr. Reynolds took little interest in party 
politics, though he was one of the candidates 
for Charlotte County on the Confederation 
ticket in 1865, when New Brunswick rejected 
the union scheme. As a citizen he took an 
active interest in a number of institutions in 
St. John, and was on the executive boards of 
the Mechanics' Institute, Orphan Aslyum, 
Bible Society, Total Abstinence Society, and 
others. Of the old New England stock, he 
was a Congregationalist in religious belief, 
and was for many years a Deacon in the Union 
Street Church. 

During the last ten years of his life Mr. 
Reynolds resided at Lepreau, where he died 
on March 9, 1882, at the age of seventy-two. 
He had lived to see the completion of the rail- 
way which he had projected between St. John 
and St. Stephen, and his body was the first to 
be carried over it for burial, the family tomb 
being at Fernhill, St. John. His widow sur- 
vives him at an advanced age. 



%\)/Tllia 



ILLIAM KILBY REYNOLDS, sec- 
son of the late William Kilby 
Reynolds, is a native of St. John, and was 
educated at the grammar school and private 
educational institutions of that city. He stud- 



ied law in the office of the then leading firm 
of Gray & Kaye, composed of Colonel the Hon. 
John Hamilton Gray, M.P. , subsequently one 
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of British 
Columbia, and James J. Kaye, one of the 
foremost solicitors, conveyancers, and equity 
lawyers of the period. Mr. Reynolds had 
little love for the law, however, and subse- 
quently abandoned it for journalism, in which, 
with other literary occupations, he has been 
engaged since 1872. His first experience was 
as a contributor to the Nciif Dominion, and he 
entered regularly into newspaper work as one 
of the staff of the St. John Daily News. He 
was later connected with the St. John Tribune 
and the Daily Telegraph, leaving the latter in 
1876 to edit the Sackville Borderer. During 
1S82 he was engaged in special editorial ser- 
vice for the Moncton Daily Times. In 1883 
he went to Boston, and during the year 1884 
was a descriptive writer and staff correspondent 
of the Boston Globe. During a portion of 1885 
he was editor of the Troy (N.Y. ) Daily and 
Sunday Neivs ; and in the autumn of that year 
he returned to Boston, where he became con- 
nected with the Boston Post, of which paper 
he was night editor until his return to New 
l^runswick in 1886. In 1889, in company 
with J. S. Knowles, he established the Grip- 
sack, a monthly publication devoted to travel; 
and during 1890 he was the editor of St. John 
Progress, then in its early years. At a later 
date he contributed a number of historical and 
other sketches to its columns. Since his re- 
turn from Itoston he has had no connection 
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writer for the Daily Telegraph during the Do- 
minion election campaigns of 1S91 and i8g6 
and as a writer of local historical sketches for 
some months after the close of the latter cam- 
paign. 

In July, 1898, Mr. Reynolds began the pub- 
lication of the New Bninsivick Magazine, a 
monthly devoted to the history of the Maritime 
Provinces, of which publication he continued 
to be the editor and proprietor until his ap- 
pointment to the public service and removal 
from St. John made it necessary to relinquish 
to other hands what had been a labor of love 
to him. 

While Mr. Reynolds had taken an active 
part as a writer in the general elections of re- 
cent years, he had no personal political ambi- 
tions; but in the Provincial election of Feb- 
ruary, 1899, he was selected as one of the 
candidates on the government ticket for the 
city of St. John. The result of his candidature 
was the consolidation of the Catholic vote for 
the ticket and the election of his three col- 
leagues in what had been for years an opposi- 
tion stronghold. His colleagues, however, 
could not bring to him a support such as he 
brought to them ; and he was defeated by the 
strongest candidate of the opposition by a nar- 
row margin of twenty-three votes in a total of 
thirty-six hundred. 

Mr. Reynolds had for many years prepared 
the guide books and tourist literature of Cana- 
dian govenmient railways; and in April, iSgg, 
he was appointed press and advertising agent 
of the Intercolonial Railway, with headquarters 
at the general offices in Moncton, in the duties 



of which position he was engaged until the 
close of the year, when he resigned in the 
interests of the constituents who supported him 
in the Provincial election. Returning to St. 
John, he established Tlie Freeman, a non-parti- 
zan paper in the interests of the Catholic people, 
and in May, 1900, transferred it to the Free- 
man Publishing Company, he continuing as 
editor until his return to the government rail- 
way service later in the same year. Among 
much other literary work which he has done in 
the past, he has dealt extensively with the re- 
sources of his native province in various pub- 
lications. Among those of recent date are a 
guide to the big game resorts of New Bruns- 
wick, issued by the I^-ovincial government, 
and the official description of New Brunswick 
in "Canada from Ocean to Ocean" (Toronto, 
1899). In addition to a number of campaign 
pamphlets, he has written and published "Old- 
time Tragedies" (1895) and a sketch of the 
life of the Rev. William Donald, D.D. (1898), 
published by the family of that clergyman for 
private circulation. He has now ready for the 
press a book entitled "True Pirate Stories," 
and is gathering material for a history of St. 
John and a "History of the Catholic Church 
in New Brunswick." 

Mr. Reynolds was formerly very active in 
Masonic work, having taken a large number 
of degrees and having held office in most of the 
bodies. lie retired honorably from the frater- 
nity in 1S94, when he was received into the 
Catholic Church. He is a member of the New 
Brunswick Historical Society, has held official 
positions in the A. O. H., and is past president 




Captain THOMAS R. ANDERSON. 



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of the Hibernian Kniglits. He is unmarried, 
and liis address is St. John or Moncton. N. B. 



—♦-•-•♦-»— 



ZTAAPTAIN THOMAS RHEESE AN- 



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DERSON, of Sackville, N.R, is a 
^ — ^ typical representative of those hardy 
and courageous men who have assisted in de- 
veloping the commercial resources of the Prov- 
inces, and made possible a close intercourse 
and a large interchange of goods between home 
and foreign ports. He was born in Sackville, 
P^ebruary 3, 1840, son of Titus and Jane O. 
(Bulmer) Anderson, and is of the fourth gen- 
eration in descent from Thomas Anderson, Sr. , 
the founder of the family in New Brunswick, 
who was one of the pioneers of Sackville. 

Thomas Anderson, Sr. , was born in England 
about the middle of the eighteenth century, 
and there grew to manhood, a resident of York- 
shire. Early in 1772, in the town of York, 
England, he married Mary Redburn, and shortly 
after this young couple came to this country 
in company with Charles Dixon, of whom 
further mention is made below. They lived 
with Mr. Dixon and his family at Sackville 
for a while; and then Mr. Anderson bought 
land on Cole's Island, where he engaged 
in general farming the remainder of his 
active career. His life covered a period of 
more than ninety years. tlis wife also at- 
tained a good old age. It is not known how 
many daughters they reared ; but they had 
three sons, of whom Thomas, Jr., the Captain's 
grandfather, was the second in order of birth. 
Thomas Anderson, Jr., was born in Sack- 



ville, and there spent his eighty-seven years 
of earthly life, industriously and successfully 
employed the greater part of the time in agri- 
cultural pursuits. Of his marriage with Lucy 
Stone five sons and an equal number of daugh- 
ters were born. One of his sons, Charles, is 
still living. Both Thomas Anderson, Jr., and 
his wife were Baptists. 

Titus Anderson, their third son, the father 
of Captain Anderson, was born on Cole's 
Island, Sackville, N. B. , July 5, 1805. Fol- 
lowing the sea from his early manhood, he 
soon became master and owner of a coasting- 
vessel, and was always afterward connected with 
sailing-vessels, either as an owner or master, 
or both, having had several new ves,sels built 
for him. He was shipwrecked, and lost his 
life on the 8th of July, 1870, being then about 
sixty-five years of age. He married March 
24, 1830, Jane Oulton Bulmer, daughter of 
Charles D. and Elizabeth (Oulton) Bulmer, 
and the eldest of a family of five sons and four 
daughters. Her father, Charles Bulmer, was 
the eldest son of George Bulmer and his wife, 
Susanna Dixon Bulmer, the latter being the 
eldest daughter of Charles Di.xon, one of the 
first of the English immigrants who settled at 
Sackville. 

Charles Dixon, aswe learn from the Dixon 
genealogy compiled by James D. Dixon, was 
born at Kirkleavington, in the East Riding of 
Yorkshire, England, in 1730. On June 24, 
1763, he married Susanna Coates. On March 
16, 1772, with his wife and four children, he 
sailed from Liverpool in the ship "Duke of 
York," bound for Nova Scotia. Among his 



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fellow-passengers were Thomas Anderson, Sr. , 
and his bride, as mentioned above, and George 
Bulaier, then a lad of twelve years. Reaching 
Fort Cumberland on May 21, Mr. Dixon there 
found a temporary resting-place for his family, 
and in June removed with them to Sackville, 
where he had bought a tract of land — twenty- 
five hundred acres — for two hundred and sixty 
pounds. 

Better educated than many of his neighbors 
and experienced in business, he became an ac- 
tive, useful, and influential citizen, holding 
the offices of Justice of the Peace and Judge of 
the Common Pleas. He was a devoted Meth- 
odist in religion, and his house was a home for 
the early Methodist preacfiers. Pie died in 
1817 in his eighty-eighth year, and Mrs. 
Dixon in 1826, at the same age. Their de- 
scendants, the posterity of their eight children, 
are numerous and are widely scattered. 

Susanna, their third child, born in England 
in 1767, married George Bulmer in 1784. 
Charles Dixon Bulmer, eldest son of George 
and Susanna, married in 1809 Elizabeth 
Oulton, of Westmoreland, and settled at Sack- 
ville on land given him by his grandfather 
Dixon. Industrious and enterprising, he suc- 
cessfully engaged in farming, also to some ex 
tent in lumbering and milling. lie died in 
1864, aged seventy-seven years ; and his wife, 
Elizabeth, died in 1870, aged eighty-three. 

Mrs. Jane O. Anderson was born May 20, 
1810, and died October 8, 1895. She was 
a woman of fine character and a member of the 
Baptist church. She bore her husband six 
children, namely: George; Ammi C. ; Eliza- 



beth, who died of whooping-cough at the age 
of eighteen months; Charles M. ; Thomas R. ; 
and Gaius. Of these only the two younger are 
now living. 

Gaius Anderson married Emma A. Keillor 
and has four children : Emma Ruth and Lucy 
Jane, twins, born March 31, 1866; Robert G., 
born August 15, 1870; and Minnie Alice, born 
January i, 1873. 

Captain George Anderson, the eldest of the 
family of Titus Anderson, was a ship-builder 
and master mariner. He died at his home in 
1873, at the early age of forty-two years, leav- 
ing his wife (Arabel Ayer), three sons, and 
a daughter. The mother, who was the young- 
est child of Jesse Ayer, su)"vived her husband 
only seven years. Captain Rupert Titus An- 
derson, the eldest of their family, has followed 
the sea since his boyhood, and is at present 
master of the steamship "Condor," of W. R. 
Grace's line, running between New York and 
Valparaiso. Pie is unmarried. The second 
in this family is Captain Ernest Lawrence 
Anderson, at present master of ship ''Ar- 
menia," belonging to Messrs. Taylor Brothers, 
of St. John, N. B., the same firm with which 
his uncle has been so long connected. Cap- 
tain Ernest married in 1890 Jessie Ford, 
daughter of Alexander P'ord, Esq., of Moncton, 
N.B. They have two children. Captain 
George's third son has, like his brothers, al- 
ways followed the sea. He has an English 
ship-master's certificate of competence, and has 
occasionally been in command, but at the 
present writing is chief officer of the steamship 
"Madiana, " of the Quebec Steamship Com- 




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pan}-, sailing out of New York. He is unmar- 
ried. The fourth and youngest surviving child 
of Captain George is Carrie B. R. Anderson 
Peters, the wife of George Peters, Esq., of St. 
John, N. B. , and mother of two boys, one born 
on February 22, 1897, and the other February 
22, 1899. 

Ammi C. Anderson, second son of Titus, 
was a stone-mason and bricklayer, being the 
only one of the family who chose an occupation 
that kept him on land. An excellent mechanic 
and highly respected by all who knew him, he 
became the owner of a good property. He 
died in 1885, aged fifty-two years; and his 
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of C. Dixon Bulmer, 
died in 1891. They had two daughters, both 
of whom died in girlhood. 

Captain Charles M. Anderson, the fourth 
child of Titus Anderson, became master of 
a sailing-ship when quite a }-oung man. He 
was a successful shipmaster, having had com- 
mand of several new ships, the last of which 
was named after his wife, "Bertha Anderson." 
He died in New Zealand, at the age of fifty-eight 
years. He was twice married. His first wife, 
Mary Wry, second daughter of the late Isaac 
Wry, bore him two children, the first of whom 
died in childhood, and the second, Mary, is 
married and living in New Zealand. He mar- 
ried for his second wife Bertha Dixon, young- 
est daughter of the late John Dixon, of Dor- 
chester, N.B. Of this union were born five 
children, four of whom are living. 

Thomas Rheese Anderson, the fifth child of 
Titus and the special subject of the present 
sketch, completed his education at Mount Alli- 



son Academy when seventeen years old, and 
then, yielding to the fascinations of seafaring- 
pursuits, embarked as a sailor. Proving him- 
self a skilful mariner, he was made master of 
a vessel in 1862; and from that time forward 
he was engaged principally in foreign trade, 
in his voyages frequently visiting ports in 
China, Japan, the Philippines, and on the west 
coast of America. From 1866 until his re- 
tirement from the sea in 1S92 Captain Ander- 
son continued in the employ of the firm of 
Taylor Brothers, with whom he is still associ- 
ated, having- large interests in various sailing- 
vessels. 

His record as a successful shipmaster it 
would be hard to excel. He never made a 
voyage without it resulting- in a dividend for 
the ship-owners, never stranded a vessel or 
had it touch the ground, nor varied from the 
voyage for repairs or stores — in short, never 
went into a port in distress. And his integ- 
rity, no less than his seamanship and business 
ability, has been always recognized by his 
employers. 

Captain Anderson married Ruth E. B. Cole, 
daughter of Rufus Cole, of Rockport, N. B. , 
formerly for several years Dejouty Collector of 
Customs. Mrs. Anderson accompanied her 
husband on a voyage shortly after their mar- 
riage, and in a few months died at sea. 



fsfTULIUS LeGENDRE INCHES, of 
Fredericton, N.B., ex -Secretary of 
Agriculture, is a native of Dunkeld, 
Perthshire, Scotland, and was born in 1824. 



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Records which have unfortunately been lost 
contained the family genealogy for two hundred 
and fifty years, and revealed the fact that the 
Inches are a branch of the Robertson family of 
Scotland. The origin of the family name of 
Inches is somewhat in doubt, but it is gener- 
ally believed by its members that, as their an- 
cestors lived upon the river Tay and inhabited 
the intervales or narrow stretches of alluvial 
soil along its banks, called in Scotland inches, 
the name was derived from that peculiar local 
idiom. On his mother's side Mr. Inches is a 
descendant of the Smalls, who were large 
landed proprietors. He derived his middle 
name from A. LeGendre, an officer of Napo- 
leon's army, who, while a prisoner in Scot- 
land, fell in love with his paternal aunt, and 
married her. 

Mr. Inches's father was a business man of 
Perthshire, who emigrated w^ith his family in 
1834, and settled in St. John. He engaged in 
commerce, but died soon after his arrival, a 
comparatively young man. 

Julius LeGendre Inches came to New Bruns- 
wick with his parents at the age of ten years; 
and, when old enough, he succeeded to the 
business established by his elder brother, and 
conducted it until the loss of a limb and fail- 
ing health compelled him to retire. His busi- 
ness caused him to make several trips to 
England, and he frequently visited the United 
States, where he formed many personal friend- 
ships, which he continues to cherish. After 
relinquishing commerce he turned his attention 
to agriculture, which was always an attractive 
employment to him. Subsequently, being 



tendered the office of Secretary of Agriculture, 
then newly established, he accepted it and 
filled it with ability until October i, 1890, 
when he retired. One of Mr. Inches's brothers 
was Deputy Surveyor General of New Bruns- 
wick, and another is a physician of high stand- 
ing in St. John. 



7TAHARLES ODELL, late a retired civil 
I J| engineer of Fredericton, was born in 






August, 1S26, in the house which 



was his lifelong home, and which has been 
the family residence for many years. His 
parents were William Franklin and Elizabeth 
(Newell) Odell. The house was built by his 
grandfather, a clergyman of the Church of 
England, who came to New Brunswick in 
1783 with the New England Loyalists, and 
for many years was government Secretary of 
the Province. The Rev. Mr. Odell was edu- 
cated in England. He had a family of several 
children, of whom the youngest was William 
P'ranklin. 

William Franklin Odell was born in the 
United States. He studied law, but instead 
of following the profession he became Pro- 
vincial Secretary, and after holding that posi- 
tion for some time he entered the crown land 
office, beginning as assistant. He died at 
seventy years of age. Ten children were born 
to William Franklin and Elizabeth (Newell) 
Odell. 

Charles Odell, tlie youngest child, received 
his education in the public schools, including 
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Fredericton, and graduated from the latter in 
1S47. He then went to England and studied 
engineering with Mr. Roberts, a clerk of the 
English Board of Works in Ireland, and was 
afterward employed on the board for two or 
three years. Returning home, he assisted in 
making the preliminary surveys for the Great 
Western Railway, the Grand Trunk Railway, 
the Intercolonial Railway, and a line of rail- 
road in Ohio. His death occurred on May 27, 
189S, in the seventy-second year of his age. 

Mr. Odell's first marriage was with May- 
nard Grange, by whom he had two children : 
Florence Mary, wife of William G. King, of 
England, now residing in Maine; and George 
Grange, who is a civil engineer in South 
America. In 1867 Mr. Odell married Sarah 
Kinnear, daughter of the late John D. 
Kinnear, Judge of Probate for Cumberland 
County, Nova Scotia. They had five chil- 
dren. Those living are: Georgiena Edythe, 
wife of Charles Heath Gwilt, of Montreal; and 
Mabel Newell. 

Mr. Odell was independent in politics. He 
was a member of the Provincial Society of 
Christian Endeavor and of the Church of 
England. 



HREDERICK P. RIED, one of the 
leading merchants of Moncton, N.B., 
is carrying on a flourishing business as the 
head of the enterprising firm of F. P. Ried & 
Co., wholesale grocers. A son of the late 
William T. and Catherine (Stiles) Ried, he 
was born April 26, 1861, in Hopewell, Albert 
County, N.B. 



William Ried, his paternal grandfather, 
rounded out a full fourscore years of earthly 
life. He was a farmer and also a mill owner 
and operator. He married a Miss Easter- 
brook, who also lived to a ripe old age. Both 
were people of eminent Christian character 
and faithful members of the Baptist church. 
They reared ten children, of whom Dri.xy, wife 
of George Barnes, is the sole survivor. 

William T. , son of William Ried, learned 
the trade of a carpenter in .Sackville, N.B., 
the town of his birth, and was subsequently 
engaged as a builder and contractor in Boston, 
Mass., for a number of years. Returning to 
New Brunswick, he located in St. John, 
where he died while in the prime of life, at 
the age of forty-four years. An honest, in- 
dustrious man, he met with a good share of 
success in his business, and was everywhere 
respected for his sterling qualities. He was 
connected by membership with the Baptist 
church, while his widow, who is now a resi- 
dent of St. John, is a Presbyterian. Of her 
three children but two survive, namely: Fred- 
erick P., the special subject of this biography; 
and Henry G. The latter married Mary 
Titus, of St. John, and they have three 
children — Donald R., P'rederick R., and 
Clark. 

Frederick P. Ried obtained a practical edu- 
cation in the schools of St. John, and was 
afterward employed for four years in an archi- 
tect's office in that city. Then entering a 
general mercantile establishment, he remained 
with the firm as book-keeper for a while, and 
subsequently travelled as a commercial sales- 



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man for a few years. In 1891, forming a co- 
partnership witl: Mr. John W. Y. Smith (of 
whom a brief sketch may be found on another 
page of this work), he established the firm of 
which he is the senior member, and embarked 
in business as an importer and a wholesale 
dealer in staple and fancy groceries. Fortune 
has evidently smiled upon him, as in the few 
years that have since elapsed he has built up 
a substantial trade. Politically, Mr. Ried is 
a Conservative. Fraternally, he is a Mason, 
belonging to Keith Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
Moncton ; and in 1893 he served as an Alder- 
man. 

On February 14, 1893, Mr. Ried married 
Mary L., daughter of William Fisher, of 
Fredericton, N.B. They have two children, 
namely: Catherine S., born June i, 1895; and 
Frederick A., born Novembei- 17, 1896. Mr. 
Ried attends and liberally assists in support- 
ing St. George's Anglican Church, of which 
Mrs. Ried is a communicant. 




,<;,|RIAH RUBERT HANSON, ex-Mayor 
of Woodstock, N.B., is actively iden- 
tified with the business interests 
of the place as a leading meat and provision 
dealer. He was born April 16, 1850, in the 
parish of St. Patrick, in the vicinity of St. 
Andrews, N. B., which was also the place of 
birth of his father, Elisha Hanson. He is of 
English ancestry, his paternal grandfather, 
John Hanson, having been born in England. 
John Hanson emigrated to this country when 
a comparatively young man, and settled in St. 



Andrews, N. B. , where he was engaged as a 
farmer until his demise. 

Elisha Hanson during his entire active life 
carried on general farming and stock-raising 
on a somewhat e.xtensive scale. He married 
Margaret Ann, daughter of Richard Carlow, 
of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, and 
they had a family of nine children, as follows: 
Samuel, of Houlton, Me. ; Frederick, de- 
ceased ; Arthur, of Woodstock; Caroline, wife 
of William McAllney, of St. Stephen, N.B. ; 
Nevin, deceased; Elizabeth, who died in 
childhood; Uriah Rubert ; Edward, of St. 
Stephen; and Minerva, now Mrs. Kierstead, 
of St. Stephen. Both parents were members 
of the Baptist church. 

Uriah R. Hanson grew to manhood in St. 
Andrews, and while a boy became as familiar 
with the various duties of the farm as he did 
with the contents of his school books. In 
1868, before attaining his majority, he opened 
a store of general merchandise in Richmond, 
N.B. , where he continued five years. Dispos- 
ing then of his business in that locality, he 
became clerk in a general store at Houlton, 
Me. On leaving Houlton he came to Wood- 
stock, where for four years he was engaged in 
the wholesale produce trade. In 1882, at the 
time he was left a widower, he closed out his 
business, and lived retired from active pur- 
suits for a year. Being then elected Town 
Marshal, he served four years, and was subse- 
quently County Inspector under the Scott Act 
for three years. In 1891 Mr. Hanson estab- 
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In the spring of 1897 he again resumed busi- 
ness by opening his present meat marlvet, 
which is one of the largest and best equipped 
of any in town, and has since won an excellent 
trade. 

Politically, Mr. Hanson is a Liberal and an 
influential member of his party. He served 
three years in the Town Council, and in 1893 
was elected Mayor of Woodstock, a position 
which he filled with commendable ability. 
Fraternally, he is a member of Court Regina, 
I. O. F. 

Mr. Hanson married for his first wife Esther 
Jenkins, of Houlton, Me. She died in 1882. 
He then married for his second wife Isa- 
bella, daughter of Francis Johnson, of Wood- 
stock. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hanson are mem- 
bers of the Baptist church. They have three 
children — Ethel, Marguerite, and Frank. 



^AMES HANNAY, D.C.L., editor of 
the Daily Teleg7-apli, St. John, is known 
to present-day Canada as one of the 
best among her historians and journalists. 
He is first and foremost a Canadian, and all 
his thought and study has been given to his 
native land. 

He was born April 22, 1842, at Richibucto, 
Kent County, N.B., where his father, the 
Rev. James Hannay, was the Presbyterian 
minister. His mother was in maidenhood 
Jane Salter, of Hants County, Nova Scotia. 
His father was of an old Scottish family, be- 
longing to Sorbie, in Wigtownshire, in which 
county he was born. James Hannay, the 



critic and author, and friend of Thackeray, 
was of the same family. 

The subject of this sketch was educated at 
New Kilpatrick Parish School in Scotland 
and at the St, John (N.B. ) Grammar School. 
He took up the study of law, and in October, 

1866, he was admitted attorney of the Su- 
preme Court of New Brunswick. In October, 

1867, he was admitted barrister, and in March 
of the same year he was appointed official re- 
porter of the Supreme Court of the Province, 
an office that he held until 1873. He pub- 
lished two large volumes of reports covering 
the decisions of the court during this period. 

Not finding the practice of law congenial 
to his tastes, he early abandoned it for the pro- 
fession of journalism. From 1872 to 1883 he 
was associated with the late Hon. William 
Elder in the editorial management of the St. 
John Telegraph. In the latter year he went 
to Montreal, where he occupied an editorial 
chair on the Montreal Herald for a year and a 
half. Then for a short time he made the 
United States his home, and was employed in 
various capacities on the Brooklyn Eagle, 
passing through the stages of general writer, 
literary editor, and associate editor. In 1888 
he returned to St. John to assume the editorial 
chair on the staff of the St. John Gazette, and 
in 1893 accepted the chief editorship of the 
St. John Telegraph. 

He has thus had a continuous connection 
with newspaper work covering a quarter of 
a century. In the discharge of his editorial 
duties he has combined a wide knowledge of 
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quick in perception and rapid in composition. 
Optimistic by nature, he believes in support- 
ing first that which is best for his native 
country and in fostering with his pen every- 
thing which is in her interests. Mr. Hannay 
has successfully entered various fields of liter- 
ary endeavor, writing now an easy, flowing, and 
spirited ballad, now an exhaustive historical 
work, now a bright and racy magazine article 
or story. When quite a young man he wrote 
poems over the nom de plmne of "Saladin" 
for the St. John Courier and other papers. 
Later he wrote a number of ballads relating to 
Acadia, describing picturesque incidents in 
its history. When Stewart's Quarterly was 
established in St. John by George Stewart, 
he became one of its best contributors, supply- 
ing sketches and stories in a lighter vein. 

His first effort historically was a series of 
sketches of the early forts in New Brunswick. 
This was followed by "The Captivity of John 
Cyles among the Milicetes from 1689 to 
1698," which he published in 1875, with an 
introduction and annotations by himself. The 
same year he wrote a history of the city of 
St. John, N.B. 

All this time he has been preparing the 
work which afterward made his reputation as 
an historian. No good history of Acadia 
under the French regime had yet appeared. 
Murdock's work was more in the nature of a 
record of events than a history, and Camp- 
bell's and Haliburton's were the product of 
insufficient research. He had therefore been 
for some years busy in the libraries upon a 
history of Acadia, and in 1879 i^^ appeared 



from the publishing houses of J. & A. Mc- 
William, St. John, and Sampson Low & Co., 
London. The work was favorably received by 
the public, and obtained the high commenda- 
tion of the reviewers; and well it might, for 
it possessed the qualities essential to both an 
historical and literary work. It is an elabo- 
rate and scholarly production, its pages show- 
ing the research of the historian, the judicial 
cast of the thinker, and the grace of the litte- 
rateur. An incident in connection with this 
work shows the value of perseverance. It 
was to have appeared in 1877, but the great 
fire came to St. John while it was in the hands 
of the publishers. The sheets already printed, 
the manuscript, and the author's valuable 
library were destroyed. All that remained 
were a few proof sheets, and the work had to 
be almost entirely rewritten. 

His ne.xt historical work, his "History of 
the Queen's Rangers," appeared in the St. 
John Sim in 1883. Then his historical labors 
ceased for a time, but were renewed in the 
projection of three or four more important 
works. These are: the "History of the 
Loyalists," whicli ran through the Telegrapli 
during 1894; "The Township of Mauger- 
ville," lately published in the first volume of 
the New Brunswick Historical Society; the 
"History of the War of 1812 " and the "Life 
and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley, " the latter 
published in 1897. These works form a 
library of great value, especially with respect 
to the history of New Brunswick. They give 
a consecutive story of that Province from the 
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they do with the periods of French occupa- 
tion, early English occupation, arrival of the 
Loyalists, the War of 1812, and the later 
days of political life during the fifty years in 
which Sir Leonard Tilley was a principal 
factor. 

Mr. Hannay was married in 1864 to Mar- 
garet, daughter of Mr. Elias T. Ross, of St. 
Johns. In 1899 the degree of Doctor of Civil 
Law was conferred upon him by Acadia Uni- 
versity. 



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(sTfOSEPH ROWAN, for many years a 
well-known ship-builder of St. John, 
was born in this city, December 21, 
1834, son of Alexander and Jane (Maxwell) 
Rowan. His parents were natives of County 
Monaghan, Ireland, and his mother was a sis- 
ter of the venerable Henry Maxwell, of St. 
John. 

Alexander Rowan and his wife emigrated 
in 1821, and settling in Portland, N.B., lived 
to an advanced age. He engaged in the busi- 
ness of a whip-sawyer, an industry long since 
extinguished by the advent of modern machin- 
ery. He was a highly respected citizen of his 
day, and belonged to the Order of Orangemen. 
His children were: Stephen, Henry, Joseph, 
Mary, and Elizabeth. 

Joseph Rowan learned the ship-carpenter's 
trade when a young man, and for four years 
was a member of the firm of Rowan Brothers. 
Withdrawing from that concern, he engaged 
in business alone at Marble Point, where for 
many years he carried on a thriving enter- 
prise, and became prominently identified with 



the ship-building industry of New ]?runswick. 
In 1892 he retired from business, and, having 
accumulated a competency, is now enjoying a 
well-earned rest. 

Mr. Rowan was married in Boston to Cath- 
erine Manning, who was born in Cork, Ire- 
land, and came to St. John when seven years 
old. They have had six children, one of 
whom died in infancy, and a son, Alfred, died 
in August, 1898, at the age of twenty-seven 
years. The living are: Jackson, P'rederick, 
Alexander M., and Alice. Mr. and Mrs. 
Rowan are communicants of St. Luke's (An- 
glican) Church. 

Alexander M. Rowan was born in St. John 
in 1866, and acquired his education in the 
public schools. Entering a hardware store as 
a clerk, he in 1888 engaged in that business 
for himself on Main Street, and is carrying on 
a large trade. 

In 1 89 1 he married Lillian Baxter, daugh- 
ter of George Baxter, of this city. She died 
in 1893, leaving one daughter, Alice Arm- 
strong. Alexander M. Rowan is a member of 
Hibernian Lodge, F. & A. M. He attends 
St. Luke's Church, and has served as a vestry- 
man. In i8g8 Mr. Rowan erected a three- 
story and basement brick block, the lower part 
being used for his business, the upper rooms 
being let to tenants. 



LIVER EARL BURDEN, an es- 
teemed merchant of P'redericton, en- 
gaged in selling farm implements and 
machinery, was born in Miramichi, N.B. , 




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December 2, 1830, son of Oliver Earl, Sr., 
and Eliza (McCloud) Burden. 

His grandfather Burden came to New 
Brunswick in 1783 with the Loyalists, land- 
ing at St. John. The government tendered 
him a grant of one hundred acres of land, but 
he refused it and took up a farm at Seven 
Oaks Creek. Later he removed to Oueens- 
boro, where he died. His wife, Ruth, lived 
to be over one hundred years of age. They 
had four sons and two daughters, the sons 
being Thomas, William, Oliver Earl, and 
George. 

Oliver Earl Burden, Sr. , was born on the 
St. John River. He was a shoemaker by 
trade, and he also followed lumbering quite 
extensively for a number of years at Mira- 
michi, where he was engaged at the time of 
the fire. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had 
four boys and three girls. 

Oliver Earl Burden, the second child, was 
educated in the schools of Kingsclear. He 
then went into the woods with his father, tak- 
ing a hand at whatever was needed. Later he 
carried on a farm, engaged in the lumber 
business on his own account, and did teaming. 
In April, 1869, he came to Fredericton. He 
has continued to engage in lumbering and 
teaming, and in the spring of 1895 he started 
in the business of selling farm implements, 
machinery, fertilizers, harnesses, carriages, 
and so forth. He is doing a thriving busi- 
ness. He buys in carload lots from (Ontario, 
and has a wareroom on Phoeni.x Square. In 
politics he is a Conservative. On March 14, 
i8gg, he was elected Alderman by the largest 



majority ever received in Fredericton. He is 
a member of the Free Baptist church, in 
which he has been Senior Deacon a number of 
years. He is an earnest temperance worker. 
On October 19, 1854, Mr. Burden was 
joined in marriage with Hannah Augusta, 
daughter of John Sanburn. Eleven children, 
eight sons and three daughters, have been 
born of their union. A son, Oliver Miles, a 
wood-worker, and two daughters — Emily and 
Adeline — have passed away. James E., the 
first-born, is in Worcester, Mass., in an in- 
ventor's shop. Isaac C, a merchant tailor, 
is in business in Marysville. J. W. B., a 
carriage-maker by trade, is employed in Fred- 
ericton. Wilfred is a barber in Fredericton. 
Archilaus C. is an express agent at Woodstock. 
Weldon is a druggist, but for three years has 
been in business with his father. Ida E. 
lives at home. Harry Lowell drives a team 
for his father. 



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M 



AVID WILLIAM JACK was born 
^ m on the 25th of February, 1785, at 
Cupar, Fife, Scotland. When about 
fourteen years of age he remox'ed to the West 
Indies, where a wealthy uncle resided, and at 
which place it had been his intention to per- 
manently settle. Some time after his arrival, 
he was taken seriously ill with a fever, and for 
a time his life was despaired of. Thanks, 
however, to his vigorous constitution, and the 
careful nursing which he received, he com- 
pletely recovered. 

While at the West Indies he saw much that 



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was antagonistic to his sense of propriety and 
moral rectitude, and soon began to look about 
for an opportunity to remove to some more 
desirable locality. The Sabbath was not ob- 
served, the only noticeable distinction between 
Sunday and a week day being the sight of the 
British ensign hoisted at the fort near where 
he resided. 

Finally, he met with a sea captain who was 
master of one of the vessels owned by Robert 
Pagan, of St. Andrews, and who gave such an 
enthusiastic account of the business outlook, 
and of the many desirable openings in that 
town for a young man, that he decided to take 
passage with him. St. Andrews was then, on 
account of the lumber trade and the shipping 
and other attendant businesses, quite an impor- 
tant port, as many as eighty square-rigged ves- 
sels having been known to leave there at one 
tide. This was, of course, during the Ameri- 
can Revolutionary War, when vessels could 
only leave under convoy of a British man-of- 
war. 

On the arrival of the vessel at St. Andrews, 
he had no money left but a "cut quarter," 
which was made from a silver dollar cut into 
four pieces. Carrying his valise up to Mr. 
Pagan's office, he made application to that 
gentleman for employment. Mr. Pagan was 
much taken with his manner and appearance 
and immediately engaged him as a clerk. He 
remained for some years in Mr. Pagan's em- 
ploy, being finally taken into partnership. 
The silver piece above mentioned he retained 
as a memento all his life. 

Mrs. J. T. Nevill, his daughter, informed 



the writer that her father told her that the 
family of Jack was of I'rench origin, that sev- 
eral members fought in the wars of the Cru- 
sades, and that the family name was originally 
spelled "Jacques" 

David William Jack was a man of polished 
and courtly manners, very much of the French 
style and type, tall and erect in his bearing, 
and of fine physique. 

Plis brother, Alexander, who was surgeon 
of the "Shannon " at the time of the cele- 
brated battle between the "Shannon " and the 
"Chesapeake," outside of Boston Harbor in 
181 3, went into Halifax with his vessel when 
she put into that port after the battle, with the 
prize and prisoners, in order that the wounded 
might receive proper attention. Owing to the 
number of wounded which Alexander Jack had 
upon his hands, he was unable to leave the 
"Shannon" to pay a visit to St. Andrews, as 
he desired. Accordingly, David William Jack 
made a visit to Halifax, then a very arduous 
undertaking, and visited his brother on board 
the "Shannon." 

A cannon-ball of small calibre, picked up 
during the battle by Alexander Jack, is now 
in the possession of Isaac Allen Jack; while 
his gold watch-chain, some of his college ex- 
amination papers, and a small pin-cushion 
made of a fragment of the wedding dress of 
Alexander's Grandmother Jack, are now in the 
possession of the writer. 

David William Jack was twice married, his 
first wife, to whom he was married December 
10, 1810, being Rebecca Russell Wyer, who 
was born July 22, 17S8, and died at St. An- 



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drews, January 20, 1828. She was a daughter 
of Colonel Thomas Wyer, a native of Charles- 
town, Mass., and of Mary Hunt, his second 
wife. 

By this wife he had nine children, as fol- 
lows: William, born September 27, 181 1, died 
October i, 1886; Thomas, born May 19, 18 13, 



Jack married Mary Wyer, his first wife's sis- 
ter, by whom he had seven children, as fol- 
lows: Mary Rebecca, born November, 21, 1830, 
died December 9, 1830; Maria and Jane, 
twins, born March 15, 1832, one of whom, 
Jane, died March 25, and Maria is still 
living; Laura, born February 7, 1S34, died 



m. 1658- 
Edward Wyer, of Scotland = Elizabeth Johnson. 

I 

I m. 1701. 

William Wyer = Eleanor Jenner. 
A sea captain I 



I m. 173S. I 

David Wyer = Rebecca Russell, b. May ii, 1721. 

j 

I 
Thomas Wyer = Mary Hunt. 
b. June 15, 1744. I 

I 
David William Jack = Rebecca Russell Wyer. 
b. Feb. 25, 1785, at I b. July 22, 17S8. 
Cupar, Fife, Scotland. | 

^1 



Paul Russell, of Hereford, Eng. 

^1 

I 
Hon. Richard Russell = Maud Pitt. 
b. 161 1 ; d. May, 14, 
1676. 



I m. 1684. 

Hon. James Russell = Abigal Hathorne, 4th wife, 
b. Oct. I, 1640. I 



I m. 1710. 

Hon. Daniel Russell = Rebecca Chambers. 

I 



Henry Jack = Annie Carmichael Johnston. 



b. May 11, 1824. 
d. Oct. 28, 1884. 



b. Dec. 17, 1840. 
d. Nov. 20, 



I 



DAVID RUSSELL JACK. 



died September 5, 1833; Margaret, born April 
20, 1815, died January 2, 1869; Alexander, 
born April 29, 1817, died January 28, 1833; 
Charles St.. Stephen, born January 31, 1819, 
died September 9, 18 19; Mary, born August 
17, 1820, died September 7, 1820; Elizabeth, 
born October 13, 1821 ; Henry, born May 11, 
1824, died October 28, 1884; Edward, born 
April 8, 1826, died December 31, 1895. 

On September 21, 1829, David William 



September i, 1895; George Cecil, born Sep- 
tember 15, 1835, <^l'ed December 30, 1S35; 
Robert Melville, born May 5, 1837, is still 
living; David, born March 5, 1840, died 
March 9, 1S40. 

From a file of old New Brunswick almanacs, 
it is learned that David William Jack occupied 
for a long period the following offices : Ganger 
of Dutiable Articles and Tide Surveyor at the 
Port of St. Andrews; Deputy Provincial Treas- 



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urer; County Treasurer; Director of the Pub- 
lic Grammar School; Commissioner of the 
Marine Plospital ; and Quartermaster, F"irst 
Battalion, Charlotte County Militia, to which 
last position he was appointed October 25, 

1833- 

He was connected by marriage with several 
families whose names were prominent in early 
Colonial history; notably, the Russells, Wyers, 
Pagans, Parkers, and Potes. His father-in- 
law. Colonel Thomas Wyer, a U. E. Loyalist, 
was born June 15, 1744, at Charlestown, Mass., 
and died at St. Andrews, N.B. , February 24, 
1824. Colonel Wyer, by his first wife, Joanna 
Pote, daughter of Jeremiah Pote, of Falmouth, 
Me., had two children, namely: Thomas, who 
married Sally Tompkins, and had four children 
— Thomas, Joanna, Elizabeth Margaret Shid- 
don, and Susan; and Robert Pote. By his 
second wife, Mary Hunt, he had nine children, 
as follows: Robert Pagan; Joanna; Rebecca 
Russell ; James Bartholomew, who died in 
Jamaica; William, who died young; David; 
Myra; Eliza; Mary. 

Thomas Weyman says, in his "Genealogies 
and Estates of Charlestown, Mass.," that "The 
line of the' Russells was eminent in social sta- 
tion, and distinguished in multifarious public 
services for nearly two centuries." 
; The connection of the writer with the Wyer 
and Russell genealogies is described on the 
preceding page. 

The tombstones of many of the Wyers, 
Pagan.s, and Potes will be found in the old 
graveyard at St. Andrews, N.B. 

An "Historical Sketch of Charlestown" 



(Mass.), by Josiah Bartlett, M.D., published 
in Boston, 18 14, contains many interesting 
notes of the Wyers and Russells. Several of 
them were graduates of Harvard University. 

"There are," says Dr. Bartlett, "many an- 
cient epitaphs on the burying-hill, most of 
which are not legible. The following, among 
others, has been copied with difficulty, and 
may serve as a specimen of the taste of our 
forefathers : — 

' Here lies interred the body of Richard Russell, 
Esq., who served his country as treasurer, more than a 
treble 'prentiship, and as a magistrate sixteen years, who 
departed this life the 14th of May 1676, being the sixty- 
fifth year of his age. 

' A saint, a husband and a faithful brother, 
A friend scarce equalled by any other, 
A saint that walked high in either way. 
In godliness and honesty all say. 
A husband rare to both his darling wives, 
To her deceased, to her who him survives. 
A father politick, and husband kind, 
Into our state of treasurership we find. 
Of fathers good, as best to own to those, 
On him a fathership law did impose. 
A Moses brother kind, good Aaron lov'd, 
On whom love showers, full of strength improve, 
A friend to needy poor, whom he refreshed. 
The poor may well lament their friend suppressed 
In time of war he was removed in peace 
From sin and woes to glory, by his decease.' 

"I copied the above from the original stone 
in 1787; and it was replaced by the descend- 
ants at that time on a tablet of soft freestone, 
which is not proper for such uses, as the in- 
scription is now almost effaced." 

Henry Jack, son of David William Jack, 



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was born at St. Andrews, N. B., May ii, 1824. 
From the Rev. John Cassell, who taught the 
public grammar school in St. Andrews, he re- 
ceived a thorough education. Mr. Cassell is 
highly spoken of, by those who remember him, 
as a scholarly man of good attainments, a good 
disciplinarian, and one well versed in the art 
of imparting knowledge. 

Henry's mother died January 20, 1828, 
while he was still less than four years old. 
On the 2 1 St of September, 1829, David Will- 
iam Jack married his deceased wife's sister, 
Mary Wyer, for which reason he and his wife 
were excommunicated from the Church of Eng- 
land by the then Rector of St. Andrews, the 
Rev. Jerome Alley; and a notice to that effect 
was duly posted upon the door of the Parish 
Church. His second marriage appears to have 
resulted happily, for no less than seven chil- 
dren were born to them. Henry was wont to 
state in after years that he had never felt the 
loss of a mother, as the stepmother was kinder 
to the children of her sister, if that were pos- 
sible, even than to her own. She survived 
her husband by many years, and died beloved 
by all who knew her. 

At a comparatively early age Henry Jack, 
being one of a family of sixteen children, com- 
menced life on his own account, but at what 
occupation the writer is unable to ascertain. 
There being but little opportunity for advance- 
ment at .St. Andrews, he removed to St. John 
about 1844, and entered as a student the law 
office of his eldest brother, William Jack, who 
was then in the enjoyment of a lucrative prac- 
tice in St. John. Henry Jack was never ad- 



mitted to the bar; but, after devoting about 
two years to the study of law, he took advan- 
tage of a favorable opportunity, and entered 
the service of the Bank of British North 
America, in which emjDloy he remained for 
nineteen years. He was rapidly promoted un- 
til he reached the position of accountant. 
While in the bank's employ he lived for five 
years in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he 
became acquainted with J. T. Nevill, an Eng- 
lishman by birth and an architect by profes- 
sion. The acquaintance soon matured to the 
most intimate friendship; and, both being 
active men, fond of out-of-door life, of walk- 
ing, driving, fishing, and hunting, for which 
the island of Newfoundland offered ample 
opportunity, they became almost as brothers. 
During this life in Newfoundland his sister 
Elizabeth came to the island on a visit to him. 
Mr. Nevill was so much taken with the sister 
of his friend that their subsequent engagement 
and marriage followed almost as a matter of 
course. Elizabeth and her husband are still 
alive at the date of the writing of this memoir, 
September, 1899. 

In the earlier Colonial days, the plums of 
office — particularly appointments within the 
control of wealthy corporations having their 
governing board in the mother country — fell 
largely, and in fact almost entirely, to rela- 
tives or friends of members of such board. 
The result of this policy, in so far as the 
future of Henry Jack was concerned, was most 
discouraging; and, after a long and faithful 
service to the bank, during which there were 
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ager, to which he considered that he was by 
right of priority entitled, he determined to cut 
adrift from that connection and try his for- 
tunes in some other wallc of life. 

The death of Alexander Balloch rendering 
vacant the position of General Agent of the 
North British and Mercantile Insurance Com- 
pany for New Brunswick, he applied for and 
received that position. Soon afterward he wa.s 
appointed Vice-Consul of Spain for New Bruns- 
wick, both of which positions he continued to 
hold until his death in 1884. The Spanish 
Consulate, up to the year 1877, was a particu- 
larly lucrative office. The Consul being paid 
by a proportion of the fees collected, over two 
thousand dollars were received by him during 
the year 1876, when two hundred and eighty 
vessels were cleared for Cuba alone. Soon 
afterward the substitution of bags for boxes 
caused a decline in the demand for sugar-box 
shooks, much to the disadvantage of the ship- 
ping and lumber industry of New l^runswick 
and of the Spanish Consul. For many years 
he was an active member of the St. Andrews 
Society of New Brunswick, being elected vice- 
president in 1863 and president in 1S67. 

In June, 1862, Henry Jack was married to 
Annie Carmichael Johnston, who was born De- 
cember 17, 1840, the youngest daughter of the 
late Hon. Hugh Johnston, and died November 
20, 1882. By her he had a family of six 
children. Of these, three died in childhood, 
namely : Henry VVyer Jack, at Roseneath, near 
Gagetown, Queens County, N.B. (the countr\' 
residence of his late Grandfather Johnston) 
August 14, 1873, aged two years and ten 



months; Malcolm Millidge Jack, at his father's 
residence at Queen Square, of spinal menin- 
gitis, April 17, 1876, aged three years and 
nine months; and Helena Mary Jack, at Queen 
Square, December 17, 1875, aged eight weeks. 
The remainder of the family, Marion Elizabeth 
Jack, Louisa Millidge Jack, and the writer, 
David Russell Jack, still survive. 

By the burning of their home at Queen 
Square, June 20, 1S77, Henry Jack and his 
wife lost much valuable property, including 
many family portraits. The family and ser- 
vants were at Gagetown when the fire occurred, 
and of the immediate family only Henry Jack 
and the writer were in the city. Much time 
was lost in a vain endeavor to save the build- 
ing; but, owing to the scarcity of water and 
the high wind which prevailed, this was found 
to be impracticable, and consequently very 
little was removed from the house to the square 
adjoining. Of what was actually removed a 
part was carried off by thieves who came up 
from the lower parts of the city, and nearly 
all the rest was burned where it lay. Two 
valuable family heirlooms — a silver epergne 
formerly owned by the Johnstons, and a silver 
tankard formerly the property of the Wyers at 
St. Andrews — lay upon the square all the 
night of the fire, and were recovered by the 
owner on the following day, they being so 
much tarnished that they were considered by 
the thieves not of solid silver, and therefore of 
not sufficient value to carry away. Some other 
property, including miniature portraits of 
David William Jack and his wife, painted in 
oils by Robert Parker, son of the Hon. Neville 



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Parker, of St. Andrews, who in later years be- 
came quite famous as a portrait painter, were 
recovered in a liouse in Pond Street. All of 
these articles are still in the possession of the 
writer. The house at Queen Square was re- 
built in 1877, and reoccupied by Henry Jack 
and his family in April, 1878. It is now 
owned by Mr. John Morris Robinson, a first 
cousin of Mrs. Jack. 

Up to the time of his marriage Henry Jack 
had attended the Presbyterian Church ; but after 
that event he attended Trinity Church, and 
later St. James Church in the same city. 
About 1876 a branch of tl)e Reformed Episco- 
pal Church was established in St. John, Henry 
Jack and his wife, Williarn S. Marven, and 
others being among the strongest supporters. 
P'rom various causes, however, the movement 
was not a success ; and after the death of 
Henry Jack in 1884 the building which had 
'been erected on Charlotte Street, largely by 
the munificence of Henry Jack and his wife, 
was sold, and is now owned and occupied by 
the Salvation Army. 

Henry Jack was ever a kind and generous 
host, his home being always open to his 
acquaintances and friends, and more particu- 
larly to such persons as from their means or 
position were unable to offer any earthly 
reward for the many kindnesses which they 
received. 

Plis wife, never very robust in health, be- 
came during her later years a confirmed in- 
valid. A woman of great fortitude and deep 
Christian character, she bore her sufferings 
with a calm resignation, cheered by the con- 



stant companionship of a devoted husband. 
On November 20, 1882, she passed away. 

Strong and vigorous as he was, a man of 
active habits and fine physique, the loss of his 
wife told greatly upon his health and spirits. 
In the spring of 1884 he built a summer cot- 
tage upon a property which he owned at Duck 
Cove. Here he lived for a few months; but 
in July of the same year his health began 
rapidly to fail, and on October 28, 1884, he 
died of paralysis of the brain, after but a com- 
paratively short illness. 

The present sketch would be incomplete 
without at least a brief reference to the Par- 
kers. Robert Parker was a Massachusetts Loy- 
alist. On the peace he was appointed Comp- 
troller of Customs and Ordnance Storekeeper 
at St. John, holding both offices until his death 
in 1823, at the age of seventy-four years. 
Mrs. Parker died at the age of eighty-four, 
October, 1852. The Hon. Chief Justice 
Parker, who died at St. John, November, 1865, 
aged si.\ty-nine years, was his son, as was also 
the Hon. Neville Parker, Master of the Rolls, 
and later one of the Judges of the Supreme 
Court, who died at St. Andrews, August, 1869, 
aged seventy-one years, leaving a widow, 
Elizabeth Margaret Sheddon, fourth daughter 
of Colonel Thomas Wyer. 

Robert and Ne\'ille Parker each ever bore 
a name that for justice, honor, virtue, and 
integrity was above reproach. In the early 
history of their countr)- they filled many high 
offices with credit to themselves and to the 
satisfaction of the people of the countr}- which 
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importance in the times of the so-called 
"family compact" and of irresponsible gov- 
ernment, it wonld be safely s^id of them that 
they never violated the trust which was placed 
in them, and that, in passing away, they left 
behind them a record such as any man might 
proudly claim. 

The gravestones of many of the Jacks, 
Wyers, Pagans, Parkers, and Potes are in the 
old Church of England Burying-ground at St. 
Andrews. 

Hugh Johnston, Sr. , was the second son of 
William Johnston, who resided, first in Or- 
dignhill, then at Mains of Balvonie in Mort- 
lock, and lastly in Burnerooks Rothes, where 
he died August 12, 1789, aged seventy-four 
years.' He married Isobel Hepburn. He 
was the great-grandfather of the writer and was 
a native of Murrayshire, Scotland, from which 
place he came to St. John about the year 1784, 
in a vessel owned by himself, and laden with 
the merchandise with which he commenced 
business here. 

Among the Free Masons he was one of the 
founders of St. John's Lodge, formerly a member 
of St. George's Lodge, No. 19, Maugerville, 
and one of the original members of Carleton 
Royal Arch Chapter. In the latter body he 
was first Scribe, or Principal J. 

He represented the city and county of St. 
John in the Provincial Legislature for the 
long term of seventeen years; was one of the 
founders of Saint Andrews Church, a member 
of the Building Committee, and one of the 
first Elders thereof; an incorporator and one 
of the first directors of the Bank of New Bruns- 



wick ; a member of the old Friendly Fire Club ; 
a Port 'Warden of the city from 18 16 to 1829; 
an Alderman of the city for 180S and many 
succeeding years. Johnston's wharf and slip, 
west side of Water Street, received their names 
from him as the owner. 

He carried on a large mercantile and im- 
porting business, in which he was very suc- 
cessful. W. F. Bunting, in his "History of 
P'ree Masonry in New Brunswick," from which 
the foregoing information respecting Hugh 
Johnston, Sr., is largely taken, speaks of him 
as "always sustaining a high character for in- 
tegrity and strict business principles," and as 
"a faithful friend and an enterprising and useful 
member of the community." 

On December 11, 1S15, a public meeting 
was held at the City Hall, Market Square, on 
behalf of the families killed and wounded in 
the Battle of Waterloo, the Hon. Ward Chip- 
man in the chair. Committees were appointed, 
and fourteen hundred and seventy-two pounds, 
fifteen shillings, six pence collected. Among 
the principal subscribers were : William Pagan, 
fifty pounds; Hugh Johnston, Sr. , fifty pounds; 
Henry Gilbert, fifty pounds; Thomas Millidge, 
twenty-five pounds; Robert Parker, Sr. , twenty 
pounds; David Jack, ten pounds ("Foot- 
prints," J. W. Lawrence). 

Hugh Johnston, Sr. , was one of the owners 
of the first steamboat built in New Brunswick. 
She was named the "General Smythe, " and 
was launched from the yard of John Lawton, 
Portland, April, 1S16. This boat ran between 
St. John and Fredericton, making one weekly 
trip each way. He is also stated by Isaiah W. 



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Wilson, in an interesting article on early com- 
merce between Digby and St. John, published 
in the August number of the Nc%v Bnuiswick 
Magazine for the present year, 1899, to have 
been one of the owners of the steamer "St. 
John," which was the earliest steam craft to 
cross the Bay of Fundy. She was schooner- 
rigged, having foresail, mainsail, and jib, and 
made her first trip on Wednesday, July 4, 
1827. 

In a second article published in the same 
number of this magazine, an account of the 
celebrated "Fishery Quarrel " is given by the 
Rev. W. O. Raymond, in which Hugh John- 
ston, Sr., together with George Younghusband, 
endeavored to mediate bet'v^een Messrs. Hazen, 
Simonds & White, but without success. He 
addressed a communication to the three parties 
named, dated June 9, 1803, the substance of 
which, together with that of a second commu- 
nication, is published. The extracts given are 
quoted from the St. John Gazette and General 
Advertiser oi June 25, 1S03. 

Hugh Johnston, Sr. , was born January 4, 
1756, and was twice married, his first wife 
being Ann Gilzean (.'), of Thornhill, Parish of 
Elgin, Scotland, who was born December 
17, 1 761, and died February 4, 1S05. His 
remains, together with those of his first wife 
and his tenth son, who died in infancy, are 
buried at Fernhill Cemetery, St. John, to 
which they were removed from the "Old Ikiry- 
ing Ground," Sydney Street, St. John, in 
1S83, the writer having been present at the 
disinterment and removal of the remains. 

The following were his children by his first 



wife: John, born November 9, 1779, died in 
Kingston, Jamaica, in the twentieth year of 
his age; William, born July 3, 1781, died in 
his nineteenth year at Grenada Bay; Charles, 
born April 8, 1783, died April 27, 1S08, at 
Kingston, Jamaica; James, born September 8, 
1786, died February 5, 1815, at Maugerville, 
N.B. ; Hugh, born April 3, 1790, died at St. 
John April 13, 1850, married, first, Miss Bliss, 
of Fredericton, N. B. , and, secondly, Harriet 
Maria Millidge; Alexander, born Septembers, 
1792, died February 2, 1824, married a Miss 
Bailey and was father of James Johnston, who 
resided at Fredericton, N.B. ; William Robert, 
born February 17, 1795, drowned January 15, 
1 819; Ann, born August 11, 1800, married 
Captain Humphrey Henry Carmichael, and died 
at Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1881. 

In 1806 Hugh Johnston, Sr. , married Mar- 
garet Thurburn, who was born July 21, 1782, 
and was a daughter of James Thurburn, of 
Banffshire, Scotland, son of Rev. John Thur- 
burn, M.A. , Edinburgh graduate 1693, and 
was a lineal descendant of James Thurbrand, 
who about 1475 held lands in Lassudden from 
the monks of Melrose Abbey. 

The genealogy of Margaret Thurburn is given 
in extenso in a pamphlet on the Thurburns, pub- 
lished by Lieutenant Colonel F. A. Thurburn, 
in London, England, in 1864. 

By this second wife Hugh Johnston, Sr. , 
had six children, as follows : Barbara, born Sep- 
tember 12, 1807, married Colonel Sir Charles 
Levinge, at one time Governor of Edinburgh 
Castle, younger son of Sir Richard Levinge, 
Bart., of Nock Drim Castle, County of West 



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Meath, Ireland; John, born March 9, 1809, 
married Eliza Anderson, died April 29, 1858; 
Charles, born October 2, 181 1, married Sarah 
Mendricks, of St. John, and was appointed 
High Sheriff, 1847, died May 4, 1858, without 
issue; Isabella Thurburn, born January 19, 
181 5, married April 21, 1836, to Robert 
Young, solicitor, of Elgin, Scotland; Mar- 
garet, born June 21, 1818, married Robert 
Wilson, of Durnhouse, Banffshire, Scotland, 
and is still living (October, 1899) ; James, 
born February 20, 1822, died April 9, 1823. 

The Hon. Hugh Johnston, fifth son of Hugh 
Johnston, Sr. , father of Annie Carmichael 
Jack, was born April 3, 1790, and was a man of 
strict integrit}', keen business intellect, great 
legislative ability, and of generous and benev- 
olent disposition. He was, as Dr. William 
Bayard recently remarked to the writer, by far 
the leading man of his day commercially and 
socially in the city of St. John. He was at an 
early age admitted a partner to the firm of 
Hugh Johnston & Co., of which his father and 
uncle were the senior partners, and was able 
to retire from active commercial life at the age 
of thirty-eight, with a fortune of twenty thou- 
sand pounds. This he invested largely in real 
estate, a considerable portion of which is now 
held by his descendants. On January i, 1828, 
he joined St. John's Lodge of Free Masons. 

He was a member of the E.xecutive Council 
of New Brunswick, under the amended consti- 
tution, from August 15, 1837, to February 16, 
1842, from March 21, 1843, to January 31, 
1845, and from February 5, 1846, to May 22, 
1848. He was also a member of the House of 



Assembly for Queens County in 1839, and of 
the Legislative Council; a Justice of the 
Peace; a trustee and vice-president of the City 
of St. John Savings Bank; a director of the 
Bank of New Brunswick; a director of the St. 
John Water Company; a Trustee of Schools, 
Portland ; a director of the New Brunswick 
Mining Company; a director of the St. John 
Public Grammar School ; and was in many 
other ways intimately connected with the 
earlier history and commercial progress of the 
city of St. John. 

In I S3 5 an act was passed to incorporate the 
St. John Bridge Company, with a capital stock 
of twenty thousand pounds. The site chosen 
was about a quarter of a mile below the present 
suspension bridge, and Colonel Thomas Wyer 
and the Hon. Hugh Johnston were among the 
incorporators named in the act. This bridge 
was not a success, and before its completion 
fell into the river. 

The Hon. Hugh Johnston was twice mar- 
ried. His first wife was a daughter of the 
late Judge Bliss of New Brunswick. His 
second wife was Harriet Maria Millidge, second 
daughter of Thomas Millidge, Jr., and grand- 
daughter of Thomas Millidge, who was Sur- 
veyor General of New Jersey. She was born 
April 30, 1804, and died September i, 1881. 

The children by this marriage were: Hugh 
B. , born August 12, 1829, niarried Jane Reid 
(lice McQueen), widow, and died August 15, 
186S; Louisa, married Robertson Bayard, died 
September 5, 1881 ; Thomas Millidge, married 
Annie Townsend Gilbert, died July 10, 1859; 
Isabel, married Alexander Luders Light, C. E., 



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died June 20, 1858, aged twenty-two years, 
without issue; Harriet, still living (May, 
1900), married Robert Newton Light, C.E., a 
brother of Alexander L. Light, and is without 
issue; Sophia Mary, born September 27, 1837, 
married James Rhodes Ruel, Collector of 
Customs at St. John, N.B. , died May 14, 
1894; Annie Carmichael, born December 17, 
1840, married Henry Jack, June, 1862, died 
November 20, 1882. Three children survive 
them ; as before set forth. 

In 1786 Thomas Millidge was elected the 
representative of Digby in the First Provincial 
Assembly, and during the twenty years follow- 
ing he filled a conspicuous place in the Legis- 
lature of the country. He was afterward 
appointed a Justice of the Inferior Court of 
Common Pleas, and for many years he contin- 
ued to hold that honorable position. He was 
a Colonel in the Annapolis Militia in the 
Eastern District, as well as of the Acadian 
Militia of the Western District, now Digby. 
In 1744 he and Captain Howe were appointed 
a committee to wait upon his Royal Highness, 
the Duke of Kent, who had just arrived in 
Halifa.x, to inquire when the prince would be 
pleased to receive the loyal address of the 
House of Assembly. 

He was "Custos Rotulorum," or president 
of the Bench of Magistrates of Digby County, 
for nearly twenty years, as well as a leading 
and efficient Justice of the Peace. "In both 
capacities," says Savary, "he proved a faithful 
and upright officer. In all matters touching 
the Bench of Magistrates his advice was sought 
by successive Lieutenant Governors in those 



old days of irresponsible government; but to 
the honor of Thomas Millidge be it said he 
was careful to recommend those only to fill 
public offices who were worthy and capable, 
and who therefore adorned the positions to 
which through his recommendation they had 
been appointed. 

Thomas Millidge, Sr. , before mentioned as 
having been the Surveyor-general of New Jer- 
sey, was a native of the old Colony of New 
Jersey, born in 1735. He was a Major in 
Skinner's Volunteers. The following anecdote 
is related of him in A. W. Savary's edition of 
W. A. Calnek's "History of the County of 
Annapolis" : — ■ 

"Oh the approach of the rebel forces under 
Washington toward the English army, whose 
headquarters were then at or in the vicinity of 
New York, the British commander, being de- 
sirous of obtaining a correct knowledge of the 
position and force of the enemy, with a view 
to an attack, called for the services of a suffi- 
ciently daring, yet prudent and competent, 
person to secure the information sought. It 
was well understood that any one taken in the 
American lines without a pass would be liable 
to forfeit his life as a spy. Cool and deter- 
mined, Thomas Millidge assumed the task, 
and executed it with entire success, as the 
sequel will show. 

"Having dressed himself as a farmer of the 
district and removed the pocket-linings from 
the capacious skirts of his coat, he placed in 
its thus widened recesses a small package of 
cardboards cut into squares, and numbered and 
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quired piece when wanted, witliout the aid of 
the eye; and, having also placed therein a pen- 
cil and all the materials necessary to his pur- 
pose, he set out boldly toward the headquarters 
of the rebel commander, and soon contrived to 
have himself arrested and taken into his pres- 
ence. On being questioned by Washington, 
who informed him that he had been seized as 
a spy, he naivelj inquired of his interrogator 
if he were not the people's friend, adroitly 
adding that, if he were not, he had been cruelly 
deceived and imposed upon by the man who 
had told him if he wanted to see an army he 
could do so in safety by coming here; and he 
had done so to see the people's army, and per- 
haps a battle. But, as it seemed he had been 
betrayed into going into the wrong place, he 
hoped his excellency would let him go back 
to his family and farm, in which case he prom- 
ised he would never leave them again while he 
lived. 

"All this was said with such rustic sim- 
plicity, earnestness, and apparent truthfulness, 
that Washington, who was entirely thrown off 
his guard, gave the countryman a pass, to en- 
able him to satisfy his supposed desire to see 
what might become a battlefield (and which 
did in fact become one a few weeks later), and 
to put it in his power to report to his sympa- 
thizing neighbors the strength of the Conti- 
nental Army and its almost certain prospects 
of success when the time should come to strike 
a blow against its enemy. Thus, armed with 
permission, he entered the lines and com- 
menced his work. With his hands plunged 
into his capacious coat-skirts and with a pencil 



in one of them and the package of cardboards 
so arranged that number one was turned in 
a proper manner to be used, he sauntered 
through the camp, sketching, unseen and se- 
cretly, the position of streams, hills, ravines, 
villages, and other features of the place and of 
the surrounding country, with the sites and 
strength of batteries and other required partic- 
ulars. Immediately after his departure the 
rough notes which were thus taken were re- 
duced into order, and a plan made from them 
of sufficient accuracy to enable the English 
commander to e.xecute a successful attack upon 
the rebel position. As a reward for these ser- 
vices, he received a military appointment in 
connection with which he continued to serve 
with energy, skill, and faithfulness until the 
close of the war. " 

In 1783 he removed with his family to 
Digb)', N. S., where he resided for a number 
of years. His losses by the war were heavy, 
including some large tracts of land of which 
he was the owner, and which in later years 
became extremely valuable. Several years 
prior to his removal to Digby he married Sarah 
Botsford, daughter of Amos Botsford, of New- 
town, Conn., who also was a Loyalist exile. 

Mr. Millidge's family was as follows: The 
Rev. John Millidge, D. C. L., long rector of 
Granville and Annapolis; Stephen Millidge, 
who married Sarah Botsford, by whom he had 
seven children; Thomas Millidge, Jr., born 
August 12, 1776; Phineas Millidge, who mar- 
ried Catherine, daughter of the late Ebenezer 
Cutler. 

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N. B. He was an eminent merchant, a magis- 
trate, and a member of the House of Assembly. 
He married Sarah Simonds, who was born Oc- 
tober 2, 1777, and was the second daughter of 
James Simonds. Children: Mercy Hannah, 
born May 17, 1802, married George Duncan 
Robinson, died March 3, 1867; Harriet Maria, 
born April 30, 1804, died September i, 1881, 
married the Hon. Hugh Johnston, who died 
April 13, 1850, having had seven children — 
Hugh Bliss, Louisa, Thomas Millidge, Isabel, 
Harriet, Sophia Mary, and Annie Carmichael; 
Isabella Ann, born January 6, 1806, died De- 
cember, 14, 1875, married Beverley Robinson; 
Louisa, born October i, 1807, died in 1874, mar- 
ried Major William Henry Robinson; Sophia, 
born May 23, i8og, died August 22, 181 5; 
Sarah, born October i, 18 10, married John 
Kinnear; Celia, born October 29, 181 1, died 
August 30, 1874, married John Morris Robin- 
son; Emma, born October 29, 181 1, died May 
22, 1869; Thomas Edward, born December 
18, 1814, married Sarah White, died August, 
1894; James Simonds, born January 14, 1817, 
died August 31, 1817; Henry George, born 
February 5, 18 19, died August 18, 18 19; 
James Simonds, born September 8, 1822, died 
December 3, 1845. 

Of the family of Thomas Millidge, Jr., it 
will be observed that four daughters married 
four iM-others, all sons of the Hon. John Rob- 
inson, of New York, and grandsons of Colonel 
Beverley Robinson, of that city. 

Harriet Maria, who married the Hon. Hugh 
Johnston, was maternal giandmothcr of the 
writer. 



In bringing to a close what must of neces- 
sity be a very brief and much condensed sketch 
of the lives of many men, all in a greater or 
lesser degree connected with himself by ties of 
heredity and consanguinity, the writer feels 
that a brief notice should be given of James 
Simonds, born at Haverhill, Mass., December 
10, 173s, died February 20, 1831, at St. John, 
N. B. , from whom he is one of many de- 
scendants. 

Mr. Simonds was a great-grandson of Will- 
iam Simonds, who settled at Woburn, Mass., 
in 1644, having come to America in the ship 
"Planter," which sailed from London April 2, 
1635. It is related that Judith Phippen, who 
afterward married William Simonds, was a 
fellow passenger with him in the "Planter," 
and that, as the ship was nearing the American 
coast, land was first descried by her which 
proved to he the now well-known headland 
called Point Judith. 

James Simonds was a pre-Loyalist. He 
settled at the mouth of the St. John River 
about the year 1760, a young man, unmarried, 
full of the strength and vigor of life, of robust 
constitution and of good education. 

On the 9th of November, 1767, he married 
Hannah Peabody, daughter of Captain John 
Peabody. He had eight children — James, 
William, Frank, George, Henry, Sarah, Han- 
nah, and Ann Eliza. He, together with James 
White, carried on a very large business at 
Portland Point; and with them were afterward 
associated William H. Hazen and others. 

The story of their lives, of their difficulties 
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of the American Revolutionaiy War, the enor- 
mous extent and variety of the businesses they 
carried on, the various enterprises they estab- 
lished and successfully maintained, is fully 
told in a series of articles from the pen of the 
Rev. W. O. Raymond, of St. John, jDublished 



make many interesting extracts from this book. 
It is sufficient for the purpose of the present 
sketch to say of him that no other individual 
has done more than he to advance the interests 
and to develop the resources of this, the prov- 
ince of his adoption, than did James Simonds. 



m. 1643, 

William Simonds = Judith Phippen 
settled ill Woburn, I d. Jan. 5, 1690. 
Mass., in 1649. I 
d. ■ , 1670. I 



Edward Hazen 
a resident of 
Rowley, Mass., 
1649. 



Hannah Grant. Capt. John Pearody : 



I m. Feb. 19, 1685. 
James Simonds = Susanna Blogget (Blodget). 
b. Oct. II, 1657. I 



I m. Feb. 24, 1735. | 

Nathaniel Simonds = Sarah Hazen. 
of Haverhill, Mass. 

d. ■ 



Richard Hazen = Mary Peabody. 

I 



1757- 



Capt. John Peabody = 

b. 

d. , 1773. 



William Johnston = Isabel Hepburn. Thomas Millidge = Mercy ■ 



b. , 1 71 5. 

d. Aug. 12, 1789. 



Surveyor Gen. of 
New Jersey. 

b- , 1735- 

d. , 1 8 16. 



d. iS2o,agedSi 



i m. Nov. g, 1767. I 
James Simonds = Hannah Peabody. 
b. at Haverhill, 
Mass., Dec. 10, 
1735; d. Feb. 
20, 1S31. 



ni. June 30, 1776. 

William Jack = Margaret Smith 
Bailie of Cupar, 
Fife, Scotland. 



I I f 

Hugh Johnston = Ann Gilzean(?) Thomas Millidge, Jr. = Sarah Simonds. 



b. Jan 4, 1756. 
d. Nov. 29, 1829. 



b. Dec. 17, 1761. b. Aug. 12, 1776. 
d. Feb. 4, 1805. d. Aug. 21, 1S38. 



I 



b. Oct. 2, 1777. 
d. Sept. II, 1S57. 



David William Jack = Rebecca Russell Wyer. 



I 



b. Feb. 25, 1785, at 
Cupar, Fife. 



b. July 22, 1 788. 



Hon. Hugh Johnston = Harriet Maria Millidge. 



b. Apr. 3, 1790. 
d. Apr. 13, 1850. 



b. Apr. 30, 1804. 
d. Sept. I, 1881. 



I I 

Henry Jack = Annie Carmichael Johnston. 



b. May 11, 1824. 
d. Oct. 28, iS~ 



b. Dec. 17, 1840. 
d. Nov. 20, 1882. 



DAVID RUSSELL JACK. 



in the A^"cO Bnius'ivick Magazine, commencing 
with its initial number, dated July i, 1898. 
Here many valuable letters and documents, 
hitherto unpublished, are given to the public, 
and the story of their lives related in a contin- 
uous manner for the first time. Did space 
permit, the writer would desire exceedingly to 



Of resolute character, shrewd and enterpris- 
ing, he was, as Mr. Raymond says, possessed of 
a vigorous constitution, as is seen in the fact, 
that, in spite of the hardships and privations 
of his early life in St. John, he survived all 
his contemporaries, as well as every official 
and appointee of the crown, at the time of the 



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organization of the Province, and every member 
of the first Provincial Legislature, and quietly 
departed this life at his old residence at Port- 
land Point, February 20, 1831, at the patri- 
archal age of ninety-six. 

DAVID RUSSELL JACK. 

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 

Loyalists of America, by Lorenzo Sabine ; Genealo- 
gies and Estates of Charlestown, by Thomas Wyman ; 
Historical Sketch of Charlestown, by Josiah Bartlett, 
M.D., iSr5; History of the County of Annapolis, by 
VV. A. Calnek, edited by A. VV. Savary, M.A. ; History 
of Nova Scotia, by Beamish IVIurdoch ; New lirunswick 
Magazine, articles by Rev. W. O. Raymond; Collec- 
tions of New Brunswick Historical Society; New 
Brunswick Almanacks, published by H. Chubb & Co. 
and others ; Free Masonry in New Brunswick, by W. F. 
Bunting; Footprints, by J. W. Lawrence; Loyalist 
Centennial Souvenir, published by New Brunswick His- 
torical Society; Scottish Nation, by William Anderson; 
The Thurburns, by Lieutenant Colonel F. A. V. Thur- 
burn ; New Brunswick, by Abraham Gesner ; English 
Surnames, by C. W. Bardsley, M.A. ; Records of Reg- 
istrar General, Edinburgh, Scotland; History of St. 
John, N.B., by D. R. Jack. 




sl'/FER McFARLANE,* of the firm of 
McFarlane, Thompson & Anderson, 
was born in Douglass, York County, 
N.B. , son of Peter and Helen (Graham) Mc- 
Farlane. 

His father, Peter McFarlane, Sr. , was born 
in Argyle, Scotland. He learned the black- 
smith's trade in Glasgow, Scotland, and after 
he came to America he worked in St. John 
and later in P'redericton. At Douglass a shop 



was built by the citizens as an inducement for 
him to locate there, and he carried on business 
in that place for some time. He died at sixty- 
eight years of age. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian church. His wife, Mrs. Helen 
Graham McFarlane, who was born in Rockby- 
shire, Scotland, lived to, be seventy-four. 
They were the parents of five sons and a 
daughter — George, Walter, William, Alexan- 
der, Margaret, and Peter. George McFarlane 
resides on the old homestead. William Mc- 
Farlane is a farmer. Alexander, a black- 
smith, died at about twenty-eight years of age. 
Peter, the youngest child, acquired his edu- 
cation in the common and high schools of 
Fredericton. He then learned the iron 
moulder's trade, at which he was working in 
South Boston, Mass., at the time of the Civil 
War. Returning home he engaged in the 
manufacture of carriages with his father and 
brothers, the business being carried on under 
the name of Peter McFarlane & Sons. They 
continued together for ten or fifteen years. In 
1871 Peter, Jr., with his brother Walter and 
F. P. Thompson, bought the land, rebuilt the 
foundry, which had been burned, and re-estab- 
lished the business of which their present 
large plant is the outcome. They built the 
moulding department, the machine shop and 
blacksmith shop, and ha\'e a large storehouse 
and paint shop. The plant of the New Bruns- 
wick P'oundry, by which naine their enterprise 
has long been known, now covers about an 
acre of land. They make the Buckeye auto- 
matic cut-off engines, the celebrated patented 
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mills, enclosed gear mowers, Ithaca horse 
rakes, stoves, steam engines, and mill machin- 
ery of various kinds, pulleys, hangers, and 
shafting. 

Mr. McFarlane was married in 1S45 to Mary 
Ann McCloud. They have four children, 
namely: Harry F., a graduate of the Frederic- 
ton High School; Clara A. ; Alice Maud; and 
Robert Bruce. Harrjf F. McFarlane learned 
telegraphy, and has filled responsible positions 
in St. Louis and Texas with various railroads. 
He is at present in a good position in St. 
Louis, Mo. Mr. Peter McFarlane is a mem- 
ber of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M., in which he 
has served in the different chairs, and of St. 
Andrew's Order. 



rt^c 



FORGE UPHAM HAY, M.A., Ph.B., 
\mJ_ a prominent educationist of St. John, 
N. B. , is a native of New Brunswick. He 
was born at Norton, Kings County, June 
18, 1843, son of William and Eliza Hay. 
Through his father he is of Scotch descent, 
and on his mother's side he is of United Em- 
pire Loyalist stock. He was educated in the 
schools of Kings County; and after teaching 
for several years took a special course in 
literature and natural science at Cornell Uni- 
versity, Ithaca, N.Y. Returning to St. John, 
he was engaged for several years in journalistic 
work on the Daily Nezvs, first as reporter and 
afterward as the night editor of that paper. 
He resumed teaching in 1873, and for nearly 
twenty-five years occupied various positions 
on the teaching staff of St. John City. He 



was for nine years principal of the Victoria 
and Girls' High School, the high character 
and efficiency of which he maintained and in- 
creased. He has been a member of the Pro- 
vincial Teachers' Institute of New Brunswick 
ever since its formation, contributing papers 
to it and otherwise taking an active part in 
its proceedings. He also took a prominent 
part in organizing the Dominion Educational 
Association, of which he was one of the first 
board of directors. At the first meeting of this 
association in Montreal, in 1893, he read a 
paper on "Ideal School Discipline," and at 
the Halifax meeting, in 1898, another on "Nat- 
ure and Literature." He served on the Do- 
minion History Committee on ManuscrijDts 
from 1894 to 1896. In 1886 he was chosen 
editor of the New Brunswick Journal of Edu- 
cation, with Inspector W. S. Carter as asso- 
ciate editor. At the end of a year this was 
merged into the Educational Reviezv, with Dr. 
A. H. MacKay editor for Nova Scotia and Dr. 
Anderson editor for Prince Edward Island. 
Mr. Hay has had entire control of the business 
and editorial management of the Reviciv from 
the date of its foundation in 1887; and in 1S97 
he gave up his position as teacher in order to 
devote himself more completely to educational 
journalism, of which he may be said to be the 
founder in these Provinces. In 1898 Mr. Hay 
began the publication of a series of cjuarterly 
leaflets on "Canadian History." The series 
is not yet completed. 

Mr. Hay has devoted his spare moments for 
many years to the study of the botany of New 
Brunswick, in which he is a recognized author- 



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ity. His various papers on this subject have 
been published, chiefly in the Bulletin of the 
Natural History Society of New Brunswick 
and in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 
of Canada, and embrace the following among 
others: "New Brunswick P^lora " (a series of 
papers on the plants of the St. John and its 
tributaries, — the Restigouche and Nepisiguit) ; 
"History of Botany in New Brunswick"; 
"Marine Algas of New Brunswick, with List." 
He was elected to fellowship in the Royal 
Society in 1S94, and is a member of Section 
Four, of which section he is now (1900) secre- 
tary. He is a member of the New England 
Botanical Club of Boston and secretary for 
New Brunswick of the Botanical Club of Can- 
ada, has been twice president of the Summer 
School of Science of the Atlantic Provinces, 
and for the jDast four years has been the presi- 
dent of the Natural History Society of New 
Brunswick. 

Mr. Hay holds the degree of Bachelor of 
Philosophy from the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
versity and the degree of Master of Arts 
{honoris causa) from Acadia University. In 
1876 he married Frances Annetta Hartt, 
daughter of the late Jarvis W. Hartt and sister 
of the late Professor Charles Fred. Hartt. 



-AMES PETERSON McINERNEY, 
A.M., M. D. , CM., a rising young 
physician of St. John, N.B. , was born 
in Kingston, Kent County, N. B. , March 24, 
1859. He is the son of the Hon. Owen and 
Mary (McAuley) Mclnerney. His paternal 



grandfather, Daniel Mclnerney, emigrated with 
his family from County Longford, Ireland, to 
New Brunswick, when Owen was a small boy. 
His maternal grandfather, Daniel McAuley, 
was in the good old days one of the foremost 
ship-builders in New Brunswick. 

The Hon. Owen Mclnerney became a pros- 
perous merchant, acquired considerable promi- 
nence in public affairs, and was elected in 
1866, as an anti-confederate, to the New 
Brunswick Legislature for the county of Kent, 
which county is at the present time repre- 
sented in the Canadian Commons by his 
son, George Valentine Mclnerney. Owen Mc- 
lnerney was appointed Legislative Councillor 
in 1869, and retained that position until his 
death in 1890. 

James Peterson Mclnerney graduated from 
St. Joseph's University with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts in 1878, and received the 
degree of Master of Arts from the same insti- 
tution in 1897. His medical studies were 
pursued at McGill Lhiiversity, Montreal ; and 
he graduated as "Final Prizeman" with the 
class of 1884. On June i of that year he 
located in St. John, N. B. , where his ability 
soon brought him into prominence; and he has 
built up a lucrative practice. 

On June 5, 1889, Dr. Mclnerney was united 
in marriage with Florence M. Travers, daugh- 
ter of Dr. Boyle Travers, of St. John, N. B. 
He has five children; namel}', Kathleen M., 
Florence M., Gerald Travers, Frances Eileen, 
and Cecil Travers. 

The doctor belongs to tlie Dominion, Mari- 
time, and New Brunswick Medical Associa- 




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tions, and the St. John Medical Society. He 
attends the Roman Catholic church. 



G\ HOMAS MALTBY, the oldest native 
q)_\_ resident and business man of New- 
castle, Miramichi, was born in this place in 
1818, son of Thomas Baker and Margaret 
(Kerton) Maltby. His grandfather on the 
paternal side, also named Thomas, was a sea- 
faring man. While conveying a cargo of coal 
he was taken prisoner by the French, and con- 
fined in a French prison until the close of the 
war then being carried on between France and 
England. The subject of this sketch has in 
his possession an autograph letter written by 
his grandfather Maltby while a prisoner, 
which is both well written and well preserved, 
every word being as legible as print. It is 
dated July 6, 18 12. 

Thomas Baker Maltby was a native of Dur- 
ham, England, born in 1792. He learned 
the trade of joiner and cabinet-maker, serv- 
ing a seven years' apprenticeship, according to 
the custom in those days. He also spent 
some si.x years as a sailor, three as an appren- 
tice and three as seaman. Subsequently 
com.ing to New Brunswick, he settled here in 
1 8 17, when there were but three houses in the 
place, including his own, the others being 
those of H. McCuUam and John Ledden. He 
married in England Miss Margaret Kerton, of 
Sunderland, and they were the parents of four 
sons and two daughters, one of the daughters 
being born in England. They were as fol- 
lows: Mary Ann, who became the wife of 



Hiram Fish, and died when seventy-five years 
of age; Thomas, who is the special subject of 
this sketch; Robert, who died in California at 
the age of forty-two; George, who died when 
a boy of eleven years; John, who is now a 
resident of Seattle, Wash. ; Margaret, who 
married Charles Simonds, and died in Eon- 
don, England, in February, 1899. The par- 
ents were members of the Church of England. 

Thomas Maltby was reared in his native 
town of Newcastle, Miramichi, and received 
his education in the common schools. At the 
early age of twelve years he began to learn 
the trade of carpenter and joiner, working 
with his father, with whom he remained for 
some years. In 1841 he began working for 
himself on Russell's Island as a ship-joiner, 
and remained there two years. He then es- 
tablished himself in business in Newcastle, 
where he has since remained. Besides ship- 
carpenter work, he has carried on an under- 
taking business since 1835, at first in com- 
pany with his father, but since his father's 
death alone. Among other work of this 
nature he made the coffin for King Julian, 
chief of the Micmac Indians. 

He was married first in 1840 to Miss Mary 
Morgan, a native of Belfast, Ireland, who 
came to Newcastle in 1820 when a child. Of 
this union were born six sons, namely: 
George, who died at the age of four years; 
Benjamin, who died in 1869, at the age of 
twenty-eight; Robert, who died in childhood, 
when about seven years and si.x months old; 
Thomas, who died in 1871, at the age of 
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Nelson, B.C.; and William James, born in 
1849, who died in December, 1898. 

Mr. Maltby's second wife, Margaret A. 
Klymes, whom he married in 1853, became 
the mother of five children, of whom the fol- 
lowing is a brief record: John Kerton, born in 
1854, died in May, 1871 ; Richard Leighton, 
born September 8, 1856, in business with 
his father; Hiram Baker, born in 1859, under- 
taker in Campbellton, N.B. ; Arthur A., born 
in i86r, died when a year old; and Mary M. , 
born in 1863. Mrs. Maltby died in June, 1893. 

[Thomas Maltby died March 14, 1900.] 

Major Richard L. Maltby, son of Thomas 
and Margaret A. Maltby, was born in New- 
castle, September 8, 1856. He received his 
education at Hark in Academy, and then 
served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's and 
joiner's trade, which he followed for some six- 
teen years. In 1880 he engaged in the under- 
taking business; and in 1888 he and his father 
formed a partnership as dealers in mill and 
steamship supplies, heating apparatus, plumb- 
ing, and undertaking, in which industries they 
carry on the leading business. In 1872 he 
joined the Seventy-third Battalion, under Cap- 
tain Ramsey; but, the company being dis- 
banded that year, he joined in the following 
year the Newcastle Field Battery, under Cap- 
tain (now Colonel) Call. January 28, 1875, 
he went with the battery to Bathurst, and 
served forty-two days, guarding the jail dur- 
ing the school riot at Caraquette, Gloucester 
County. In August, 1875, he was made Bom- 
bardier. In 1876 he was promoted to the rank 



of Corporal, and on November 22 of that year 
he joined the Royal School of Artillery for a 
three months' course. In 1878 he was pro- 
moted to the rank of Sergeant, in 1880 be- 
coming Sergeant Major. In 1892 he drilled 
with the battery as Lieutenant, and in the 
same year received his commission to that 
rank. In 1894 he was commissioned Captain, 
and on the retirement of Colonel Call he was 
placed in command of the Twelfth Field 
Battery. In 1897 he went to the Royal 
School of Artillery at Quebec, and received 
his commission as Major with the command of 
the battery, it being at that time a four-gun 
battery. It is now a six-gun battery, and 
musters a total of one hundred and two officers 
and men. In 1883 he joined the Artillery 
Shoeburyness Team to compete with repre- 
sentative English Volunteer Artillery, and 
assisted in winning the cup presented by the 
Marquis of Lome for repository competition. 

In 1883 Major Maltby took a trip to Eng- 
land, where he visited the home of his grand- 
father, ho being the first member of the 
family to visit the ancestral home since his 
grandparents' emigration in 1817. He is a 
member of Northum.berland Lodge, F. & 
A. M., in which he has filled all the chairs; 
of Mount Lebanon Chapter, No. loi ; and the 
Encampment of Knights Templar at St. John. 
He also belongs to the Independent Order of 
Foresters, in the official business of which he 
has taken a prominent part; and to the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen. 

He was married November 25, 1880, to 
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lish army officer. By this union there are two 
children — -Mary Edith and Hiram Kerton. 
Politically, Major Maltby is a Conservative. 
A member of the Church of England, he is a 
warden of St. Andrew's Church and a delegate 
to the Synod. 




LEXANDER DUNBAR, senior mem- 
ber of the enterprising firm of Alex- 
ander Dunbar & Sons at Wood- 
stock, N.B., is a man of inventive genius and 
of excellent business ability. He was born 
April 4, 1839, in Aberdeen, Scotland, a son 
of James Dunbar. His grandfather, George 
Dunbar, a miller by occupation, was a lifelong 
resident of Kincardineshire, Scotland. 

James Dunbar was born in Kincardineshire, 
and there served an apprenticeship as a black- 
smith. At the age of twenty-five years he 
opened' a shop in Aberdeen, but in 1835 i'^" 
turned to his birthplace and established him- 
self in business there. He subsequently was 
for many years a blacksmith at the Red 
Smithy, Parthethen, where he spent the clos- 
ing days of his life. He was an Odd Fellow 
and a member of the Presbyterian church. He 
married Helen, daughter of Andrew Davidson, 
a farmer of Bourtreebush, in Kincardineshire, 
and they had seven children: Alexander; 
James; Andrew; William, who is now living 
in South Africa, and who planned and built 
the water-works at Juliannesburg and vicinity ; 
Robert; Mary, widow of the late William 
Angues; and Agnes. 

Alexander Dunbar received his education 



and learned the machinist's trade in Scotland. 
For eight years he was in business for him- 
self as a millwright and engineer. Afterward 
he became superintendent for the Scotch 
Steam Cultivation Company. In 1872 he re- 
signed that position to come to America. He 
located at once in Woodstock, N. B. ; and the 
ensuing ten years he was foreman for H. A. 
Connell. Resigning then in favor of his son, 
Mr. Dunbar was engaged by the town of 
Woodstock to superintend the construction of 
the water-works ; and after they were com- 
pleted he acted as engineer for a time. He 
also superintended the putting in of the elec- 
tric light plant, which he subsequently oper- 
ated until 1 891. In that year, in connection 
with the late James Hayden, under the firm 
name of Hayden & Dunbar, he established his 
present foundry and machine shop. In 1894 
he, with his sons, Alexander, Jr., Andrew, 
and William, purchased Mr. Hayden's inter- 
est in the plant, and formed the present firm 
of Alexander Dunbar & Sons. This firm car- 
ries on a large general machinist and foundry 
business, manufacturing the celebrated new 
improved clapboard machine, Dunbar's clap- 
board planer, shingle machines, rotary saw- 
mills, steam-engines, gang edgers, brass and 
iron casting of every description, and general 
saw-mill machinery. They employ from eight 
to twelve men, and have built up a trade that 
extends into every part of the Dominion. 

Mr. Dunbar married Matilda, daughter of 
John McAdam, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and 
they have eleven children, namely: Ellen, 
wife of Richard Murphy; Alexander, Jr. ; An- 



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drew; Matilda; William; Agnes; Henry; 
John; George; Kathleen; and Robert. Mr. 
and Mrs. Dunbar are members of the Presby- 
terian church. 



AMES WALKER, M.D., a retired phy- 
sician, now one of the most substantial 
and well-to-do citizens of St. John, was 
born in that city, December 21, 1S29, being 
the youngest son of Thomas and Jean (Ma- 
cara) Walker. His birthplace was a house that 
stood on the site of the Canadian drug store. 

Thomas Walker, his father, who was born in 
Perth, Scotland, was a surgeon in the British 
army, serving in England and in the West 
Indies. While on the latter station he was 
present at the taking of Martinique Guade- 
loupe from the French. After the war with 
France was over, the regiment to which he was 
attached was engaged in helping to put down 
the riots in England caused by the intro- 
duction of farm and all other kinds of 
machinery. Subsequently, on the regiment 
being disbanded, Thomas Walker came to 
Halifax, and about the year 1820 to St. John, 
where he practised his profession for many 
years, dying in 1852 at the age of sixty- 
nine. His wife, Jean, to whom he was mar- 
ried in the West Indies, was a native of Largs, 
Scotland. They were the parents of four chil- 
dren, three sons and one daughter, of whom the 
subject of this sketch is the only survivor. 
Dr. Thomas Walker was a member of the local 
medical society. His wife survived him about 
ten years. 



James Walker was educated in the grammar 
school of St. John. He studied his profession 
in Edinburgh, Scotland, graduating in July, 
1854. He then spent some time travelling on 
the continent and pursuing advanced studies 
in the hospital clinics of Paris, Berlin, and 
Vienna. Subsequently, returning to St. John, 
he was for a number of years successfully en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession in that 
city. He is now retired, and occupies himself 
mainly in looking after his large real estate 
interests. He is a member of the Natural 
History Society and of St. Andrews Society. 

Dr. Walker was married in 1882 to Cather- 
ine Amelia Nice, a native of Carleton and a 
daughter of David Nice, of Loyalist descent. 
His children are: John D. , of St. John; and 
Gladys, who resides at home. 



AMES FREDERICK ALLISON,* 
Postmaster at Sackville, Westmorland 
County, N. B. , was born in that town, 
October 20, 1850, a son of the late Joseph F. 
Allison. He comes of good Irish stock, his 
paternal grandfather, James Allison, having 
been born and brought up in the Emerald Isle. 
Emigrating when a young man to Canada, 
James Allison located at Cornwallis, N. S., 
where he subsequently bought land, from 
wliich he improved a good farm. There he 
spent his remaining days, profitably engaged 
in general agricultural pursuits, but making a 
specialty of fruit-raising. He took an intelli- 
gent part in the management of local affairs, 
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Peace. He was prominent not only in politi- 
cal matters, but was a leading member of the 
Church of England. He married Margaret 
Hutchinson, who bore him seven sons and one 
daughter. Of these children Joseph F. and 
William, the fifth and sixth sons, were twins. 
Another son, Charles F. Allison, who died in 
1858, was an unusually successful business 
man and a prominent citizen of Sackville. 
From the large property which he accumulated 
he founded the educational institution named, 
in his honor. Mount Allison University, and 
at his death bequeathed to it a large amount 
of money. He married Milcah Trueman, of 
Pointe du Ikite, who died leaving no children. 
Joseph F. Allison was born at Cornwallis, 
N. S. , on the home farm, and remained there 
until he was twelve years old. Going then to 
Sackville, N.B. , he entered the store of the 
Hon. William Crane, a leading merchant of 
tiie town, with whom he subsequently formed 
a partnership, becoming junior member of 
the firm of Crane & Allison. On the death 
of Mr. Crane, in 1853, the junior member of 
the firm, with his brother, Charles F. Alli- 
son, who at one time had been a partner 
in the concern, were made coexecutors of the 
Crane estate. Joseph F. Allison purchased 
the interest of his late partner in the busi- 
ness, and from that time until his own death, 
in 1863, when but fifty-six years old, carried 
on a very extensive and satisfactory trade in 
general merchandise. He was a most loyal 
citizen, active in town affairs, a Conservative 
in his political views and a member of the 
Church of England. He married Mary, 



daughter of Oliver Cogswell, of Cornwallis, 
N. S. Seven children were born to them, and 
these three are now living: Francis; James 
Frederick; and Cassie, wife of Alfred T. Par- 
sons, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

James Frederick Allison, after taking a 
course of study at the Mount Allison Acad- 
emy, completed his education at Horton, N. S. 
At the age of sixteen years he entered the 
grocery store of Marriner A. Wood as a clerk, 
a position which he filled six years. In 1872 
he embarked in business on his own account 
in Sackville by opening a store of general 
merchandise, which he conducted several 
years. In 1885 he became accountant for the 
New Brunwick and Prince Edward Island 
Railway Company, with which he was con- 
nected in that capacity until appointed, in 
1893, Postmaster of Sackville, an office which 
he is filling most creditably and satisfactorily. 

Mr. Allison was married September 8, 
1 88 1, to Louise M., daughter of the late 
Major W. Beverley Robinson, of St. John, 
N.B. Their union has been blessed by the 
birth of three children, two of whom are liv- 
ing, namely: William Beverley, born June 22, 
1884; and Mary Gretchen, born January 10, 
1889. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allison are mem- 
bers of the Church of England. 



(ffJYAMES SMITH ATKINSON,* a promi- 
nent citizen of Albert, Albert County, 
N. B., has been very active in promot- 
ing the various enterprises inaugurated to ad- 
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which he resides, and is well known in mer- 
cantile, political, fraternal, and religious 
circles. He was born October 21, 1849, at 
Bay Verte, Westmoreland County, N.B. , a son 
of Thomas Atkinson. Of his paternal grand- 
father, Christopher Atkinson, very little is 
known, excepting that he was for years a very 
influential citizen of Sackville, N. B. , whose 
large farm included the present site of the 
Mount Allison Institution. Christopher was 
twice married, and had children by each wife; 
but whom he married is unrecorded. 

His son, Thomas Atkinson, was born at 
Sackville, N.B. , where he lived until coming 
of age. Then removing to the town of Albert, 
he there established a general store, which he 
managed alone until 1870, when he took into 
equal partnership his youngest son, James 
Smith, the firm name from that time until his 
death being Thomas Atkinson & Son. He 
was a Liberal in politics, and was a member of 
the Methodist church and of its official board. 
He married Mary, daughter of William 
Oulton, of Bay Verte; and of their five chil- 
dren three are living — ^ Richard H., Phoebe 
A., and James Smith. Richard H. married 
Ada, daughter of Dr. W. Hardy, of Boston, 
Mass., and has two children, namely : William 
H., who married Alice M., daughter of Thad- 
deus E. Friend, of ]3rookline, Mass. ; and 
Caroline R., wife of Charles Wadsworth Lowe. 
Phoebe A. is the wife of Donald McStay, of 
St. Andrews, N. B. , and has three children, 
namely: William F., who married Lillian 
Trites, of Moncton, and has two children; 
Alberta, wife of A. W. Scott, of Moncton, 



who has three children — ^ William, Victor, 
and Charles; and Alice, wife of Edward Ed- 
wards, of Moncton, who has three children — 
Victor, Nora, and Hathaway. 

James Smith Atkinson attended the Char- 
lotte County Grammar School several terms, 
after which he completed his education at 
Eaton's Commercial College at St. John, N.B. 
On leaving school he began his mercantile 
career as a clerk in a dry-goods house at St. 
John, where he continued five years. Return- 
ing in 1870 to Albert, he became associated 
in business with his father as junior member 
of the firm of Thomas Atkinson & Son, and 
after the death of the senior member of the 
firm conducted the business alone until the fall 
of 1896, when he sold out, and is now attend- 
ing to his other interests. He is a Conserva- 
tive in politics. For a number of terms he 
has served as School Trustee and as secretary 
of the School Board, and has also been Justice 
of the Peace. He is also president of the 
Flopewell Cemetery Association, of which he 
was one of the projectors. Mr. Atkinson is 
a Mason and Past Master of the lodge to 
which he belongs; is president of the Canadian 
Home Circle, of Albert; and for many years 
was Chief Templar of Hopewell Lodge, I. O. 
G. T. , of which he is one of the foremost 
members. He is likewise a trustee and one 
of the Managing Committee of Oulton Hall, 
of Albert. A Methodist in his religious be- 
lief, he is an energetic worker in that denomi- 
nation; and, besides being one of the trustees 
of the Church Board and the parsonage, he is 
a member of the Quarterly Official Board. 




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On December 30, 1873, Mr. Atkinson mar- 
ried Sarah Alberta, youngest daughter of Cap- 
tain David Stiles, of Hopewell, N. B. He has 
three children living — Marion Ruth, Lucy L., 
and Ada J. 

'AMES RICKEY, formerly a well-known 
citizen of St. John, N. B., was born in 
County Donegal, Ireland, in i8i6, son 
of Robert and Anna (Reid) Richey. His 
grandfather, James Richey, a carpenter by oc- 
cupation, married a Miss Stevenson. They 
came to New Brunswick somewhat late in life, 
and they both died in St. John. Their chil- 
dren were : Robert, above named, who was the 
eldest; Matthew, who was a clergyman of the 
Methodist church; John, a carpenter; Samuel, 
a watchmaker; William and 'Andrew, who 
were carpenters; and Mary. 

Robert Richey was engaged in the bakery 
business in Ireland, and followed that pursuit 
upon coming to America. He crossed the At- 
lantic in 1826 with his wife and five children, 
and settled in St. John, where he at once 
opened business. He died in 1871, and his 
wife died in 1S41. They had six children, 
namely : James ; Robert ; Mary ; John ; Jane 
Ann, who married James Cleeland ; and Mar- 
tha, the wife of Alexander Rankinc, of St. 
John. 

James Richey served an apprenticeship at 
the painter's trade, and subsequently went to 
Fredericton, where he carried on business for 
about three years. Returning then to St. 
John, he engaged in business here for a time, 
but later went to Boston, Mass., where he 



spent the following six years. At the end of 
that period he again returned to St. John, 
where he remained during the rest of his life, 
carrying on a successful business. 

Mr. Richey was married in 1838 to Louisa 
M. Mitchell, a daughter of William Mitchell. 
Of this union eight children were born, 
namely: Martha; Marina, who was the wife of 
the late Dr. Robert Ocheltree, of New York; 
Robert W. , who died at the age of eighteen 
months; James Reed, Robert, William W., 
and Lorenzo T. , who reside in Boston, Mass. ; 
and Samuel J., who lives in St. John. 

Mr. Richey died on March g, 1898, closing 
a useful and honored career. He held the re- 
spect and confidence of all his business asso- 
ciates and the sincere regard and admiration 
of his more intimate friends and acquaintances, 
only those who knew him in his home life 
appreciating to the full his many virtues and 
his warm and kindly heart. The following 
pen sketch from the St. John Gazette of March 
12, 1898, shows him as he appeared in every- 
day life : — 

"To-day a man of many years, a familiar 
figure on the streets of the city, a reader of 
books, a lover of pictures, a man of domestic 
habits and unobtrusive manners, who spoke no 
evil of his neighbor, for he realized that his 
own imperfection.s, like those of others, could 
not be wholly concealed, even if he elected to 
masquerade in the garb of a hypocrite, 'is 
away,' as they say in the Highlands, and this 
is his first Saturday night with 'the princes 
and patriarchs of the infant world.' It would 
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Rameses as to kindle the flame of life in his. 
Yet only five or six days ago the children 
smiled at him as he passed them on the street, 
for he always greeted them with a pleasant 
word, and those who knew him best little 
thought as they shook his hand for the last time 
that so soon he would be away. He was not 
known in politics, in sectarian controversy, nor 
in the scramble for office. He never begged 
for introductions to 'distinguished visitors,' 
and his name seldom appeared in the news- 
papers; but, somehow, without seeking popu- 
larity, he was popular with the young and the 
old, because of his unobtrusiveness and his 
tender consideration for the feelings of those 
with whom he came in contact. The graves 
of such men are not often marked by great 
monuments, yet it cannot be doubted that they 
'sleep well,' nor can it be doubted that the 
world is a little better and consequently a 
little happier because they have lived." 



||^|OBERT JAMES BOYD was for many 
years a prominent citizen and one of 
the most enterprising and prosper- 
ous business men of Pennfield, Charlotte 
County, N.]?. A man of sterling integrity, 
honest and upright in all of his dealings, he 
had the esteem and confidence of his fellow- 
men ; and his death, which occurred June i8, 
1897, left a vacancy in the community that 
cannot well be filled. He was i)orn in the 
parish of Pennfield, Charlotte County, in 1840, 
being one of the two children of William and 
Margaret Boyd. His father, who was born 



and reared in County Antrim, Ireland, emi- 
grated to New Brunswick when a young man, 
and located in Pennfield, where he resided 
until his decease, at the age of fifty -five years. 

Mr. Boyd obtained a practical common- 
school education in Pennfield, and at the early 
age of eighteen years went into the lumbering 
business on his own account. He succeeded 
even beyond his expectations, and soon en- 
larged his operations by ojDening a clothing 
house and a store of general merchandise. To 
the stock which he first put into his establish- 
ment he subsequently added a complete line of 
farming implements ; and he took the agency 
for the sale of wagons for Murchie & Co. and 
for B. R. DeWolfe, and for selling farmers' 
tools for M'Nutt, the general agent in St. 
John. He also carried on general farming to 
a considerable extent, making a specialty of 
stock raising and dealing. In all of his oper- 
ations he prospered, and it is needless to say 
was always kept busy. In politics he was a 
strong supporter of the Conservative party; 
and he took a deep interest in the management 
of public affairs, although he persistently de- 
clined office. He was an active member of 
St. George Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 12, and 
did much to promote the welfare of that order. 
He was a member of the Church of England. 

Mr. Boyd married Georgiana, daughter of 
David and Mary Jane McFarland, their union 
being solemnized November 22, 1865. Their 
only child, Maggie Isabel, is now the wife of 
W. II. Akerly, a son of Benjamin Akerly, 
who was born in Cornwell, N. S. Mr. and 
Mrs. Akerly have five children; namely, 




i\lK. AND Mrs. ROBERT J. BOYD and grandson, 
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Robert Lester, Orlo Roy, Aubrey Taylor, 
Helena Fay, and Elldon James. 




)N. JOHN BLACK,* barrister-at-law 
jnd a prominent politician of Freder- 
icton, was born in Kingsclear, 
York County, N. B., November 23, 1853. He 
is a son of the Rev. John Black; and his 
grandfather, William Black, was for a number 
of years identified with the lumber business in 
St. John. William Black was one of the able 
public men of his day, administering the Pro- 
vincial government for the years 1831 and 
1833; and his political services extended over 
a long period. In extreme old age he retained 
remarkable control of his mental and physical 
powers; and at the time of his death, which 
occurred at the advanced age of ninety-six 
years, he was serving as president of the Legis- 
lative Council. 

The Rev. John Black, the Hon. John Black's 
father, was educated at King's College, Wind- 
sor. Taking holy orders, he became rector of 
the Anglican church at Kingsclear, which he 
served for twenty-five years. He died at the 
age of sixty-five. He married a daughter of 
G. L. Wetmore, a barrister; and they had a 
family of eight children, all of whom are now 
Jiving, John being the youngest. 

John Black obtained his general education 
in the Fredericton Collegiate School; and, 
upon the completion of his studies there, began 
to read law in the office of Mr. Henry B. 
Rainsford, of Fredericton, with whom he re- 
mained as a student for four years. After his 



admission to the New Brunswick bar in 1875 
he was associated for six years with his pre- 
ceptor, subsequently practised alone for three 
years, was then in partnership with J. Douglas 
Hazen for the same length of time, and is now 
a member of the firm of Black, Bliss & Nealis. 
In politics he is a Conservative. He has been 
Secretary, Treasurer, and Solicitor of the 
county since 1891, and in 1895 was elected a 
member of the Provincial Parliament from 
York. 

In 1880 Mr. Black married a daughter of the 
late Dr. Robb, a professor at the University of 
New Brunswick. He and his wife have had 
two children, one of whom is living. Mr. Black 
is a Past. Master of Hiram Lodge, No. 6, F. 
& A. M. ; belongs also to the chapter; and 
is a Past Grand of the local lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows. His religious affiliations are with the 
Anglican church. 



M 



ONALD FRASER,* of Fredericton, 
((T) J ^^ "^ prosperous lumber manufacturer 
and dealer and a wide-awake, pro- 
gressive business man. He was born in Aber- 
deenshire, Scotland, in 1842, a son of Archi- 
bald Fraser, being the fourth child in a family 
of five sons and one daughter. His paternal 
grandfather, also named Donald Fraser, spent 
his seventy-seven years of life in Aberdeen, 
Scotland, where he was engaged in the timber 
business. 

Archibald Fraser succeeded to the occupa- 
tion of his father, and like him spent his entire 
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sixty-two years. He was an active member 
of the Free Presbyterian church, in which he 
was a Deacon. He married a daughter of 
Lawson Phillips, and they reared six children. 
Donald Fraser completed his studies at Me- 
chanics' Institute in Aberdeen, and then en- 
tered into business with his father. On the 
death of the latter, Donald and one of his 
brothers, under the firm name of A. & D. 
Fraser, continued their father's business for 
five years. The partnership then being dis- 
solved, Mr. Fraser took an engagement to go 
to Sweden in the interest of a lumber firm; 
but the contract fell through. In 1873, join- 
ing the Kincardine Company, or Colony, he 
came with them to New Brunswick and settled 
in New Kincardine, Victoria County, where 
he took up farming land. He subsequently 
gave up farming, however, and entered the 
employ of F. H. Hale, a lumberman, with 
whom he remained two years. Then, in 1877, 
removing to Liberty Chute, a small place 
about seventy miles from Fredericton, on the 
St. John River, he embarked in the lumber 
business on his own account. He began in 
a small way, and succeeded so well that in 
1880 he was enabled to enlarge his operations 
by buying a mill in company with Alexander 
Patterson, and thus became head of the firm of 
Fraser & Patterson. On the death of the 
junior partner he became by purchase the sole 
owner of the business. Soon afterward he 
leconstructed the saw-mill, and built a mill 
for the manufacture of oatmeal, but in iSSg 
sold out the entire plant. In 1894 Mr. Fraser 
came to Fredericton, and with his sons, Donald 



Fraser, Jr., and Archibald, built their present 
saw-mill, and establi-shed the firm of Donald 
Fraser & Sons. They have a finely equipped 
mill, supplied with electric lights from its 
own dynamo, and employ in its night and day 
gangs from one hundred and twenty-five to one 
hundred and thirty men, who during the year 
manufacture about fifteen million feet of lum- 
ber into deals, clapboards, shingles, laths, 
etc., which are sold in New England, or 
shipped to other foreign countries. 

Mr. Fraser is a member of the Presbyterian 
church of Liberty Chute. In his political 
convictions he has always been a Liberal. He 
is a Free Mason, and has advanced as far as 
the chapter. While living in Aberdeenshire 
Mr. P"raser married Ann, daughter of John 
Reiths. Mrs. Fraser died at the age of fifty 
years. 

REDERIC A. JONES, furniture 
dealer of 16-18 King Street, St. 
John, was born in that city, in a house at the 
corner of King and Carmarthen Streets. He 
is a son of the Hon. Thomas R. Jones, a sepa- 
rate sketch of whom appears on another page 
of this volume. 

He was educated in the grammar school. 
Leaving school at the age of sixteen years, he 
was employed at the time of the great fire, in 
1877, in the hardware store of Lewin & Al- 
lingham. He then spent a year in New York 
City, after which, returning to St. John, he 
became associated with his father in the mer- 
cantile business. Subsequently he became 
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Harvey, York County, N. B., which position 
he held for three years. He then returned to 
St. John and established his present furniture 
and house furnishing business, in which he 
has been very successful. He is also heavily 
interested in gold mines in Colorado. 

Mr. Jones married Miss Charlotte Maria 
Arnold Fowler, a native of Sussex, N.B. 
Mrs. Jones was brought up by her grandpar- 
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Samuel Arnold, the 
former of whom was a descendant of the Rev. 
Oliver Arnold, the first rector of Sussex, 
N.B. Mr. Jones is a member of the Hibernia 
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; also the Union De 
Molay Preceptory of St. John, the Indepen- 
dent Order of Foresters, and the Knights of 
I'ythias. 



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/^UTHER CORBETT MURRAY, 

^/^ M. D. ,* a prominent and popular phy- 
•' ^"^ sician of the parish of Albert, Alljert 
County, N. B., was born November i, 1845, '" 
Colchester County, Nova Scotia, a son of the 
late George A. Murray. On the paternal side 
he is of pure Scotch ancestry, his grandfather, 
George Murray, having been born and bred in 
Morayshire, Scotland, where he lived until 
after his marriage. Emigrating then to Amer- 
ica with his young wife, George Murray settled 
in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, where he 
was profitably engaged as a general farmer 
until his demise, at the age of fourscore years. 
His wife, who died when forty years old, bore 
him eight children, of whom but one survives — • 
namely, Elizabeth, now ninety-three years old 



and the widow of William Murray, a distant 
relative, who resides in Nova Scotia. 

George A. Murray, who was the youngest 
child of his parents, was born January i, 1S16, 
on the old home farm in Colchester County, 
Nova Scotia. Following the occupation to 
which he was early trained, he became one of 
the most thriving agriculturists of his native 
county, in which he spent his eighty-one years 
of earthly life. He was a Liberal in politics, 
and for many years was an Elder in the Pres- 
byterian church, with which he and his wife 
united when young. His first wife was Jane 
Hill, a daughter of Samuel Hill, who was born 
in Londonderry, Ireland. She died at the age 
of forty-nine years, having borne him eight 
children, of whom six are now living — Samuel 
H., George, David, Suther C. , Charles H., 
and Elizabeth. 

Suther Corbett Murray had exceptionally 
good educational advantages, attending in his 
)'0uthful days the schools of his native town 
and of Boston, Mass., and subsequently the 
grammar school at Truro, N. S., and Dalhousie 
College, Halifax, N. S. Having a natural 
taste for the study of medicine, he then entered 
the Harvard Medical College, a department of 
the famed university of Cambridge, Mass., 
from which he graduated in 1871, with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately 
locating in Londonderry, N. S. , Dr. Murray 
remained there two years, when in 1873 he 
removed to Albert, where he has since been 
pre-eminently successful in the practice of his 
chosen profession. He takes an active interest 
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esteem of his patients and neighbors. A Lib- 
eral Conservative in his convictions, he is 
now president of the society organized by that 
political party. Fraternally, the Doctor is 
a member and Past Master of the Albert Ma- 
sonic Lodge ; a member and secretary of the 
Canadian Home Circle; and a member and 
treasurer of Shepody Court, A. O. F. , of Al- 
bert. He is also a County Coroner. 

On April ii, 1871, Dr. Murray married 
Harriet E., daughter of W. E. McRobert, 
M. D., of Colchester, N. S., and they have two 
children — Wilfred Pitt and Alder Gordon. 
The Doctor and Mrs. Murray are active mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church of River- 
side, N.B. 




UGH GALLAGHER,* a member of 



the firm of Gallagher Brothers and 
also of that of John Gallagher & 
Sons, Woodstock, N.B., was born January 27, 
1854, at Petersville, Queens County, N.B., a 
son of John and Ann (McGovern) Gallagher. 
His paternal grandparents, Lawrence and Isa- 
bella (McCann) Gallagher, were born and 
reared in Ireland, the former in County Fer- 
managh and the latter in County Tyrone. 

John Gallagher was born in County Fer- 
managh, Ireland, in November, 1825, and in 
1829 came with his parents to New Brunswick. 
They settled on a farm in St. John County, 
and he there grew to man's estate. On leav- 
ing school, he engaged in farming, and thus 
continued until 1847, when he located in 
Woodstock. In 1877 he engaged in monu- 



mental work on his own account, and has now 
the largest business of the kind within a radius 
of twenty miles. His wife, Ann, was a daugh- 
ter of Hugh McGovern, of Queens County, New 
Brunswick. They had ten children, of whom 
nine grew to years of maturity, namely : Isa- 
bella, now deceased, who was the wife of James 
McRae, of Woodstock ; Hugh; Catherine, wife 
of William Bragen, of Boston, Mass. ; Law- 
rence; John; Mary; James; Ella; and Agnes. 
Hugh Gallagher was educated in the Wood- 
stock schools, and afterward under his father's 
instruction learned the stone-cutter's trade. 
In 1893 he entered into partnership with his 
father, and is still a member of the firm of 
John Gallagher & Sons, which is carrying on 
a successful business under the skilful manage- 
ment of its senior member. Mr. Gallagher is 
also engaged in the livery business, and, in 
company with his brother, James W. Gallagher, 
has the leading livery and sale stable in Wood- 
stock. They keep fourteen horses the greater 
part of the time, and have a large assortment 
of carriages and other vehicles for general use. 
In politics Mr. Gallagher is a Liberal, and he 
takes an active part in local affairs. P^or four 
years he was Town Councillor, and in 1897 
was elected a County Councillor. 



AMES G. McDonald,* an extensive 
landholder of Albert County, New 
Brunswick, is also a prominent farmer 
and one of the leading citizens of the town of 
Coverdale. A son of the late Duncan McDon- 
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Glasgow, Pictou County, N. S. , of excellent 
Scotch ancestry. His paternal grandfather, 
also named Duncan, was born and spent his en- 
tire sixty-five years of life in Scotland. He 
was an industrious, thrifty man, who in addi- 
tion to farming was largely interested in man- 
ufacturing lime, owning and operating several 
kilns. His wife, Isabelle, who lived to a ripe 
old age, bore him six children, Duncan, Jr., 
being the third son. 

Duncan McDonald, Jr., was born on the old 
homestead in Scotland, and after leaving school 
was engaged in the lime works with his father 
for a number of years. When about twenty- 
eight years old he came to Canada, and located 
in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, two of his 
brothers coming over in the same ship. Find- 
ing employment in a ship-yard, he remained 
there some time ; and then, having received 
from the imperial government a grant of land 
in Pictou County, he took possession of it, and 
from that time until his death at the age of 
sixty-five years carried on general farming with 
more than ordinary success. After coming to 
Nova Scotia he met and married Jessie Mc- 
Gregor, who outlived him several years, dying 
at the advanced age of seventy-eight. She 
was a member of the Presbyterian church, to 
which he also belonged and in which he was 
an active worker. Of their seven children 
three are living, namely : Christie, widow of 
the late Donald McPherson, of Pictou, N. S. ; 
Alexander, who married Catherine Fraser, of 
Pictou, N. S. , and has four children — Duncan 
J., Jessie, Christie, and John; and James G., 
the direct subject of this sketch. 



After attending school in Pictou County, 
James G. McDonald went to Halifax, where he 
served a three years' apprenticeship at the 
stone-mason's trade. Going thence to the 
United States, he worked there as a mason for 
a brief time, and then returned to Pictou 
County, where he established himself as a con- 
tractor for mason work. While there he built 
the Kirk Church and many other large build- 
ings of equal note, as well as the Normal 
School building in Truro. In 1S91 became 
to New Brunswick to work on the penitentiary 
then in process of construction at Dorchester, 
and after the big fire at St. John in 1877 
located in that city, and during its rebuilding 
was one of the leading contractors. Subse- 
quently giving up his trade, he purchased a 
farm of fifteen hundred acres in the parish of 
Coverdale, where he has since resided, devot- 
ing his attention to general farming, although 
he makes hay his principal crop. He also has 
large tracts of woodland in the vicinity, and is 
known as one of the largest real estate owners 
in that section of the Province. Politically, 
he is a Conservative. He is a member of 
Albion Lodge, F. & A. M., of New Glasgow, 
N. S., and of the New Glasgow Lodge, 
I. O. O. F. 

Mr. McDonald has been twice married. 
Plis first wife, Maria Marshall, daughter of 
James Marshall, of Pictou, N. S., died at the 
age of twenty-three years, leaving one child, 
Minnie M. McDonald. She was a member of 
the Presbyterian church. Mr. McDonald after- 
ward married Mary, daughter of William 
Fraser, of Pictou, N. S. ; and she died when 



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forty-five years old, leaving two children, 
Wassell H. and Delta H. 



(^AMES REYNOLDS, a retired business 
man of St. John, was born in that city 
in October, 1820, son of Bernard and 
Mary (Broome) Reynolds. His father was a 
native of Galway, Ireland, while his mother 
was born in Manchester, England, and Mr. 
Reynolds without doubt inherited the best 
characteristics of the two races from which he 
sprang. 

Bernard Reynolds resided for a time in Eng- 
land, where he married, and after his arrival 
in America in 1818 he opened a merchant 
tailoring establishment in St. John, which was 
carried on under his name for upward of fifty 
years. He was the father of seven sons, and 
James, the subject of this sketch, is the only 
one of these now living. 

James Reynolds was educated at the St. John 
Grammar School, then under the direction of 
Dr. Patterson, and at the Baptist Seminary, 
Horton, N. S., where, in addition to other 
branches of learning, he pursued courses in 
Latin and Greek under Dr. I'ryor. His busi- 
ness life was begun in the shipping and mer- 
cantile house of I. & I. G. Woodward, with 
whom he remained two years, and afterward for 
the same length of time he was employed in 
the dry-goods business by S. Nichols, who was 
then president of the Bank of New Brunswick. 
Leaving Mr. Nichols for the purpose of assist- 
ing his father, he later went to New York with 
a view of perfecting liis knowledge of the 



tailoring business, and while there he was 
emi^loyed for a time in the office of the New 
York Tribune. Upon his return to St. John 
he succeeded his father in business, which he 
conducted successfully for many years, and 
employed an average of thirty-five hands. 
Having accumulated a fortune, he retired in 
1 87 1, and has ever since devoted his time to 
his investment interests. As a citizen he 
stands high in the estimation of the commu- 
nity, and during his days of business activity 
he enjoyed the good will of his employees. 

In 1855 Mr. Reynolds married Miss Char- 
lotte Emma Waddington, daughter of E. C. 
Waddington, formerly of Liverpool, England. 
Her father came to St. John in the interest of 
his brothers, who were extensive merchants 
and ship-builders, having a branch in this 
city. Mrs. Reynolds became the mother of 
seven children, namely: Mary; Alice Gertrude, 
wife of P. Charles Millett, of Buffalo, N.Y. ; 
Susan Broome; Emma C. ; Margaret Jane; 
Charles; and Frank Lucas. Mrs. Reynolds 
died in 1884, and her children have inherited 
a large income from the estate of her uncles. 

Mr. Reynolds is one of St. John's foremost 
public-spirited citizens, and his public ser- 
vices have been performed with the same en- 
ergy and ability as that which characterized his 
business career. He was actively concerned 
in organizing the volunteer fire department, in 
which he served for many years as engineer of 
Company No. 5. He is president of the Fire 
Relief Society, formed when the greater por- 
tion of St. John was burned, in 1877, and is 
chairman of the Board of Health. In May, 




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187S, Mr. Reynolds was made president of the 
St. John's Relief and Aid Society, and he has 
been re-elected every succeeding year since, 
a fact showing that the able manner in which 
he has fulfilled the requirements of that office 
is appreciated by the people of St. John. 

Mr. Reynolds was elected chairman of the 
first meeting of the Horticultural Society held 
in St. John, and is at present secretary of the 
Park Association. In his religious belief he 
is a Roman Catholic. 




|^|EV. WELLINGTON CAMP,* pastor 
of the First Baptist Church at Hills- 
boro, Albert County, N. B. , was born 
January 15, 1856, in Jemseg, Queens County, 
N. B. , on the homestead where both his father, 
John James Camp, and his grandfather, George 
Camp, were born and brought up. 

His great-grandfather, Abiathar Camp, lived 
in New Haven, Conn., until the close of the 
American Revolution, when in 1783, being a 
Loyalist, he came to New Brunswick to spend 
his remaining days. He located on a large 
tract of land in Jemseg, where, being a man of 
considerable wealth, he lived in comfort until 
his death in 1S41. Of his ten children George 
was the second son, 

George Camp was born April 18, 1791, on 
the home farm in Jemseg, and there followed 
agriculture until his death, which occurred 
May II, 1850. He married Mary Ferris, who 
was born July 20, 1801, at Grand Lake, 
Queens County, and died June 8, 1896. She 
was a member of the Baptist church, while he 



belonged to the Anglican church. Of their 
children eight grew to adult life, as follows : 
John James, Rebecca ]., George W., Sarah E., 
Rachel, Mary, Abiathar, and Maria. 

John James Camp, whose birth occurred De- 
cember 4, 1 8 19, still lives on the ancestral 
homestead, and is held in high esteem through- 
out the community as a man of sterling in- 
tegrity and upright character. He married 
Emma, daughter of John and Prudence (Hayes) 
McCurdy, of Norton, N. B. She was born in 
1825, and died in October, 1883. They were 
the parents of ten children, of whom seven are 
now living, as follows: John McC, of Wood- 
stock, N. B. , who married Sarah Smith, of St. 
Andrews, and has seven children; George R., 
M.U., an active practitioner at LIpper Shef- 
field, who married Annie Clark, of Grand Bay, 
N.B., and has six children; Prudence, wife of 
Stilson Dyeman, of Jemseg, who has seven 
children; Wellington, the special subject of 
this sketch ; K. Harris, who married Susan 
Andrews, of St. George, N. B., and has three 
children; Ella, wife of Abraham White, of 
Grand Lake, who has five children; and 
Adelaide, wife of Martin Watt, of Grand 
Menan, N.B. 

Wellington Camp obtained the rudiments of 
his education in the common schools of Jem- 
seg, after which he attended the Gagetown 
Grammar School and the Fredericton Normal 
School, and was prepared for the ministry at 
the Newton Theological Seminary at Newton 
Centre, Mass., graduating in 1883. Immedi- 
ately after receiving his diploma, he accepted 
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John, N. B., where he remained two years. In 
1886 he went to Hillsboro to take charge of 
the First Baptist Church, with which he has 
since been connected. Under his pastorate 
the church has prospered, numerically and 
financially, and occupies a place of influence 
among the religious organizations of the com- 
munity. Mr. Camp is a member and Chaplain 
of the Hillsboro Court, I. O. F. ; of the 
Laurel Orange Order; and of the Independent 
Order of Good Templars. 

On March 18, 1885, Mr. Camp married 
Mary Frances, daughter of William H. and 
Lydia A. (Baker) Long, of Fairville, N.B. 
They have four children: Minnie L., born 
March 20, 1886; Helen K., born July 31, 
1888; W. Gordon, born January 13, 1890; 
and Dorothy E., born January 21, 1897. 




;^IR JOHN CAMPBELL ALLEN, 
late of Fredericton, ex-Chief Jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court, was born 
in the parish of Kingsclear, York County, 
N. B. , October i, 18 17. He was a son of John 
Allen, for many years a prominent factor in 
the civil and military affairs of this province; 
and the grandfather was Isaac Allen, who 
jjrevious to the American Revolution practised 
law in Trenton, N.J. Isaac Allen was loyal 
to the crown, serving as Lieutenant Colonel of 
the Second Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers. 
In 1783 he settled in Nova Scotia. When the 
province of New Brunswick was organized, he 
was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court, 
and continued in office until his death, which 



occurred in October, 1806. His wife, a na- 
tive of Philadelphia, was before marriage 
Sarah Campbell. 

John Allen, Sir John Campbell Allen's 
father, was in his younger days a Captain in 
the New Brunswick Fencibles, a corps raised 
in this province during the War of 181 2 and 
commanded by General John Coffin. That 
regiment was disbanded in 1S17; and he was 
subsequently appointed Lieutenant Colonel 
and Inspecting Field Officer of the provincial 
militia, serving as such until that office was 
abolished, and was later appointed Quarter- 
master-general. From 1809 to 1847 h^ ^^^p- 
resented York County in the Provincial As- 
sembly. John Allen died in 1875, at the 
advanced age of ninety-one years. His first 
wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, 
died in 1822. 

John Campbell Allen was educated in Fred- 
ericton, and studied law with the Hon. John 
Simcoe Saunders, son of the then Chief Jus- 
tice of New Brunswick. He was admitted as 
an attorney in October, 183S, and became a 
member of the bar in the fall of 1840. In 
184s he was appointed one of the commis- 
sioners to settle the land claims under article 
four of the Washington Treaty of 1S42. That 
part of the disputed territory which became 
British soil was inhabited by Acadian P^rench, 
to whom the provincial gox'ernment refused to 
issue grants; and from 1845 to 1847 the com- 
mission appointed to investigate and adjust 
these difficulties was engaged in hearing and 
determining the claims of all settlers between 
the Grand Falls of St. John and the St. 




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Francis Rivers. From November, 1851, to 
January, 1856, John C. Allen served as clerk 
of the Provincial Executive Council. In P'eb- 
ruary of the latter year he was elected a Rep- 
resentative from York County to the General 
Assembly, and in May, 1856, was appointed 
Solicitor-general, holding that office until the 
following" year, when his party was defeated. 
Declining the position of Queen's Counsel in 
i860, he re-entered the Assembly in 1862, 
and served as Speaker until its dissolution in 

1865. He was again returned as an opponent 
of confederation in April of that year, was ap- 
pointed Attorney-General, and in June, 1865, 
he and the Hon. Albert J. Smith, afterward 
Sir Albert J. Smith, were sent as delegates to 
London, to present New Brunswick's objection 
to the proposed Canadian Confederation. On 
September 21, 1865, he was appointed a Judge 
of the Supreme Court ; and on October 8, 
1875, he succeeded the Hon. William J. 
Ritchie as Chief Justice. On October 8, 

1866, he was appointed Vice-President of the 
Court of Governor and Council, for determin- 
ing suits relating to marriage and divorce; and 
in June, 1878, he was selected in place of the 
late Governor Wilmot, as an arbitrator in the 
north-western boundary dispute, the others 
being Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister 
at Washington, and Chief Justice Harrison, of 
Ontario. But, unfortunately, his judicial 
duties would not permit him to enter upon the 
work, and he accordingly resigned. 

Among the more notable criminal trials over 
which Chief Justice Allen was called upon to 
preside were that of the Osborne family, who 



were tried twice for the murder of Timothy 
McCarthy in Shediac, Westmoreland County, 
each trial resulting in a disagreement; the 
trial of several jaersons at Bathurst, Gloucester 
County, for participating in the Carrac[uct 
riots caused by the enforcement of the Common 
School Act ; that of Chasson and ten others 
for the murder of one Gifford, who aided the 
sheriffs in arresting the above-mentioned riot- 
ers; and the trial of John A. Monroe for the 
murder of Sarah M. Vail and her child at St. 
John. 

When a young man Judge Allen was active 
in military affairs, joining as early as 1835 a 
volunteer company of artillery that in 1838 
became part of a regiment known as the New 
Brunswick Royal Artillery. He rose to the 
rank of Captain in the militia, served from 
1S44 to 1848 as Aide-de-camp on the staff of 
Sir William Colebrook, Lieutenant Governor 
of New Brunswick, and retired from the ser- 
vice in 1865. During the year 1851 he pre- 
sided over the city government of I'redericton 
as the first Mayor elected by popular vote, that 
officer having previously been appointed by the 
Council. In 1887 he published a book con- 
taining the rules of the Provincial Supreme 
Court, together with the acts of Assembly rel- 
ative to that body; and, as he was for a long 
period Reporter for the Supreme Court, he com- 
piled and issued many volumes of law reports 
containing a number of important decisions. 

He received the degree of Doctor of Laws 
from the University of New Brunswick in 
1882, and that of Doctor of Civil Law from 
King's College, Windsor, N. S., in 1890. He 



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was knighted by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, 
in 1889; and in 1888, his fiftieth anniversary 
as an attorney, he was presented with a valu- 
able piece of plate by the members of the St. 
John bar. In 1893 the New Brunswick bar 
presented to the Supreme Court a life-size por- 
trait of the Chief Justice, which now hangs in 
the court-room in Fredericton. While hold- 
ing court at St. Andrews, Charlotte County, 
in November, 1893, Chief Ju.stice Allen was 
stricken with paralysis, which compelled him 
to resign his office and retire from public life, 
and eventually caused his death, on the 27th 
of September, 1898. 

Sir John C. Allen was a communicant of 
the Church of England and a greatly valued 
member of the synod and church society of 
the diocese, a warden of the parish church for 
twenty years; and in 1877 and 1880 he was a 
delegate to the Provincial Synod at Montreal. 
His ability and high personal character were 
known and appreciated by his many acquaint- 
ances among the legal profession of the United 
States (with whom he was in a sense associated 
as a member of the Medico-Legal Association 
of New York), as well as throughout the Brit- 
ish dominion; and his enforced retirement 
from the seat of honor he so long and ably 
filled was looked, upon with sincere regret. 

In 184S Sir John C. Allen married Margaret 
A. Drury, daughter of Captain Charles Drury, 
of the Ninth Regiment Infantry, who died in 
St. John in 1S35. Mrs. Allen became the 
mother of seven sons and two daughters. The 
daughters died young; and two of the sons — 
John and Charles Drury Allen — are no longer 



living. The survivors are: William K., ac- 
countant of the Fredericton Boom Company; 
Thomas Carleton, Clerk of the Pleas; Edward 
H., clerk of the Barker House, Fredericton; 
George W. , a barrister-at-law in this city; and 
Henry Allen, who is in business in New York 
City. 

William K. Allen, who has been connected 
with the Fredericton Boom Company for the 
past fifteen years, represented York County in 
the Provincial Parliament from 1882 to 1885, 
when his father's failing health caused him to 
retire permanently from politics, and he was 
succeeded by Mr. John Black. Mr. Allen 
married Olivia Laura Glasier, fourth daughter 
of Stephen Glasier, of Elmwood, Lincoln, 
Sunbury County, N. B. She died September 
30, 1897, leaving two sons — John Campbell 
and W. Kenah Allen. 




ENRY AUGUSTUS CONNELL,* of 
the firm of Connell Brothers, founders 
and machinists at Woodstock, N.B. , 
is a well-known business man and an influen- 
tial citizen. He was born in Woodstock, 
October 24, 1834, a son of Henry Farmer 
Connell. His paternal grandfather, Charles 
Connell, who was a Loyalist, settled in Wood- 
stock when a young man, and engaged in gen- 
eral farming. 

Henry Farmer Council was born in Wood- 
stock in the year 1800, and during the earlier 
part of his life lived on the parental homestead. 
In 1839 he removed to the then village of 
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which he carried on successfully for many 
years. Being forced on account of impaired 
health to give up business, he spent one winter 
in the South, hoping there to recuperate his 
energies, but died soon after his return home. 
He married Isabella Harding, of Maugerville, 
N.B., and had four children, namely: Eliza, 
deceased, who was the wife of the late Rev. 
Mr. Allen, of St. John; Henry Augustus, the 
special subject of this sketch; Charles F., of 
Albany, N.Y. ; and William, deceased. The 
mother was a member of the Methodist church. 
Henry A. Connell's career as a pupil in the 
public schools of Woodstock was suddenly ter- 
minated the morning when he, a lad of fourteen 
years, threw an ink bottle at the head of the 
schoolmaster. The latter at once locked the 
door to prevent the escape of the offender, but 
the irate youth made his exit through a win- 
dow. Not daring to go home, he left town 
with nothing except the clothes he was wear- 
ing at the time, and, going to the northern 
part of Maine, there secured work at stream 
driving. The following summer he returned 
to New Brunswick, and during the season was 
emiDloyed in running rafts between Fredericton 
and St. John. Going then to Bangor, Me., he 
learned the machinist's trade with Hinckley & 
Egery, after which he went to Cherry field. 
Me., where he put two engines into a steam- 
boat. That work completed, Mr. Connell re- 
turned to Fredericton to take charge of a 
steamer running between that place and St. 
John. In the fall of the year he went to Jack, 
sonville, Fla., where he was occupied for a few 
months as a machinist, and then took a con- 



tract to put up and repair engines on a planta- 
tion nearby. Going thence to Palatka, Fla., 
he worked as an engineer, and was afterward 
the captain of a steamer plying between that 
town and Enterprise until January, 1857. 

Mr. Connell proceeded then to South Amer- 
ica, and, after working four months in the 
government railroad shops in Rio Janeiro, went 
to Buenos Ayres, where he was engaged three 
months as engineer on a steamer running up 
the Uruguay River as far as Salto. One day, 
while he was thus engaged, General Flores, 
leader of the revolutionary party in Uruguay, 
in civilian's dress, boarded his vessel with his 
troops, and after the steamer had started made 
himself known, and demanded to be landed at 
Rincon Gallenas. Captain Connell replied 
that he did not stop there; but the general 
c|uickly said, "You will stop there." The 
Captain, profiting by what he had learned of 
the people of that country, took the hint, and 
landed the general and his forces at their de- 
sired haven. After the Paraguayan war was 
well under way. Captain Connell's steamer was 
leased from the government at Buenos Ayres; 
and, while he was lying at the lower port of 
Salto, just previous to starting out, an officer 
approached him, and demanded that the steamer 
be taken to the upper port to carry troops to 
Pisandu. He replied that the engines, which 
were broken down, would have to be repaired 
first. The officer wished to send English en- 
gineers to assist in the repairing, but the Cap- 
tain declined all offers of assistance. Taking 
off a part of the engine, he went ashore; and, 
having secreted this, he went to a fashionable 



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cafe, where he chanced to meet the engineers 
before referred to. Inviting them to become 
his guests at dinner, he served them sumptu- 
ously with wine; and, when he found that they 
had imbibed a sufficient quantity of liquor to 
render them harmless as engineers, he returned 
to his vessel, successfully making his way, 
oftentimes on his hands and knees, through the 
various picket lines, carrying with him the 
parts of his engine, which he hastily put in 
order. Quietly slipping the anchor, the cur- 
rent carried him to the Argentine shore, where 
he was safe. Because of this act an edict was 
issued for the taking of Captain Connell, dead 
or alive, an edict which remained in force two 
years. He formed a large acquaintance along 
the Uruguay River, becoming well known 
among the military and civil officers on both 
sides, as well as the prominent merchants. 

Mr. Connell subsequently located at Monte- 
video, Uruguay, where for two years he was 
engineer in a large flouring-mill. From there 
he started for China on the ill-fated steamer 
"Mississippi," which was wrecked off the Cape 
of Good Hope. He was picked up by a Swed- 
ish bark, which landed him at St. Helena, 
from which island, eleven days later, he found 
a passage to Rio Janeiro, whence he proceeded 
to Montevideo and then to Buenos Ayres. 
There, after working at his trade three months, 
he went on board a steamer, first as an engineer 
and then as the captain, a position which he 
retained thirteen years, for nearly five years 
having charge of a fleet of fifty-five steamers. 
In 1869 he returned home for a visit, and, 
after remaining one day in Woodstock, went to 



New York, where he purchased a steamer, 
which he at once took to Buenos Ayres. In 
1S70 Mr. Connell returned permanently to 
Woodstock, and, building his present foundry, 
has since carried on an extensive business, the 
firm name being Connell Brothers, although 
he has always been sole proprietor. He em- 
ploys about fifty men in his works, and manu- 
factures a larger variety of articles than are 
made in any other foundry in Canada, turning 
out stoves, shingle-machines, mowing-ma- 
chines, implements of all kinds. 

A man of keen judgment, good executive 
ability, and much force of character, Mr. Con- 
nell is a man bound to succeed wherever 
placed. He is liberal-minded and public- 
spirited, and in an official capacity has ren- 
dered the town excellent service. He is 
independent in politics. For three terms he 
was Mayor of Woodstock ; and he was after- 
ward elected to the House of Assembly, and 
became a member of the Blair government. 
He has also been for several years a trustee 
of the Woodstock School Board. In 1889 he 
organized the County Electric Light Company, 
of which he has since been manager, and is 
now vice-president and manager of the Tobique 
Valley Mining and Manufacturing Company. 
He was made a Free Mason at Excelsior Lodge 
in Buenos Ayres, and is still a member of 
that organization. Pie attends the Anglican 
church. 

Mr. Connell has one child li\'ing — namely, 
a daughter, Gussie Gertrude, by his first wife. 
For his second wife he married Ellen, daughter 
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ISAAC CLAYTON PRESCOTT,* an en- 
ergetic and thriving business man of the 
town of Albert, Albert County, is an ex- 
tensive lumber dealer and manufacturer, the 
junior member of the firm of C. S. & L C. 
Prescott. He was born November 2, 1861, 
in Pennfield, Charlotte County, which was 
also the birthplace of his father, Joshua Pres- 
cott. 

His grandfather, Jesse Prescott, was born in 
Mount Vernon, Me., August 28, 1791, and 
died February 11, 1885, in Pennfield, N.B. 
A resident of Maine until 181 5, Jesse Prescott 
came then to New Brunswick and settled in 
Charlotte County, where he bought timbered 
land, which by years of unceasing toil he im- 
proved into a comfortable homestead. Coming 
from good Puritan stock, he inherited both the 
mental and physical vigor of his ancestors, and 
in his adopted home exerted a wide-felt and 
lasting influence. On May i, 1820, he mar- 
ried Sarah, daughter of John Knight, of Penn- 
field; and of their seven sons and one daughter 
the following named children are now living: 
Catherine, wife of Tobias Mealey, of Minne- 
sota; Joshua, father of Isaac C. ; Moses, who 
married Alice Chaffee; John, whose first wife, 
Sarah Dinsmore, died several years ago, and 
who subsequently married Emma, daughter of 
Deacon Kelley, of Calais, Me. ; and Jesse, 
who married Abigail Young. Both Jesse 
Prescott and his wife far outlived the allotted 
span of earthly life, he attaining the venerable 
age of ninety-four years, while she died at that 
of ninety-three. In 1831 both united with the 
Baptist church, making a public profession of 



faith, and were afterward among the most ac- 
tive members of that organization. • 

Joshua Prescott was born in 1825, on the 
old home farm in Pennfield. When a young- 
man he opened in that town a general store 
stocked with merchandise adapted to the coun- 
try trade. He afterward established a lumber 
business in the same place, but after a few 
years disposed of his interests there, and re- 
moved with his family to Sussex, N.B. , where 
he is now very extensively engaged in lumber- 
ing and milling. A practical, far-seeing man, 
well endowed with the energy and prudence 
characteristic of his progenitors, he has met 
with fine success in his operations, and is 
to-day one of the leading citizens of his town. 
In politics an Independent Liberal, he is 
warmly interested in the various reform move- 
ments of the times, and is a very active mem- 
ber of the Sons of Temperance. His wife, 
Susan, who was a daughter of Thomas Justa- 
son, of Pennfield, died at the age of fifty-eight 
years. She was a woman of much loveliness 
of character and a faithful member of the Bap- 
tist church. Of the six children that blessed 
their union five are living: Crandall S., senior 
member of the firm of C. S. & I. C. Prescott, 
who married Georgie Boles, of Sussex, N. 11; 
Isaac Clayton, whose personal history is given 
below; Jesse, who married Annie McCIoud, 
also of Sussex; Gideon, who married Rebecca 
Ried, of Harvey, N.B. ; and Joshua, who mar- 
ried Mary Boles, a sister of his eldest brother's 
wife, and who has one child, Crandall. 

Isaac C. Prescott obtained his elementary 
education in the common schools of Pennfield, 



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after which he attended the Mount Allison 
Academy at Sackville, N.B. , and then took 
a course of study at the college in Wolfville, 
N. S. The six years following the completion 
of his school life were spent as a clerk in his 
father's lumber office, a position which he gave 
up in 18S9 to embark in business on his own 
account. P'orming a partnership with his 
brother, Crandall S. Prescott, under the pres- 
ent firm name, he began manufacturing lumber 
at Albert, N.B., where he has since estab- 
lished a general store. The firm, which is one 
of the most enterprising and prosperous in that 
part of New Brunswick, ovyns and operates sev- 
eral steam saw-mills, some being outside of 
Albert township, and employs a large force 
of men. 

. On July 18, 1893, Mr. Prescott married 
Minnie Ried, daughter of Harris Ried, of 
Harvey, N.B. , and a sister of Mrs. Gideon 
Prescott. Their union has been brightened 
by the birth of three children — Jennie, 
Susan, and one other. Mr. Prescott takes an 
active part in advancing the prosperity and 
welfare of the town and county in which he 
lives, and since his election in 1897 as County 
Councillor of Albert County has proved an 
efficient public servant. 




I':ORGE F. BAIRD, who died a few 
■5 1 months since, on April 29, 1899, 
was for a number of years one of the lead- 
ing business men of St. John, N.B., being 
manager of the Star Line Steamship Company 
and extensively engaged in shipping and lum- 



ber interests. He was born in Wickham on 
September 5, 1849, son of George and Mary 
(Case) Baird, the former of Scotch ancestry 
and the latter a descendant of the United Em- 
pire Loyalists. Mr. Baird was educated at 
Kingston Academy, Kings County, N.B. He 
then studied law, and in 1875 was admitted 
attorney. l"or twelve years he was success- 
fully engaged in the practice of law, and from 
1876 was identified with the marine business 
of the county as ship-owner and steamboat 
manager. In 1886 he entered federal politics, 
and during the nine years succeeding repre- 
sented Queens County in the Dominion Par- 
liament. There his wide knowledge of men 
and affairs was exercised for the benefit of his 
constituents, and rendered him a leading and 
influential figure among his fellow-members. 
Mr. Baird conducted a general business in 
steamboating, shipping, and coasting, and in 
the lumber trade. His staff of employees 
usually numbered two hundred and fifty. 

He left a widow, the daughter of Samuel 
McDermott, and one child, Frank A. Baird, 
who was born to them February 16, 1876. 



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ILLIAM FYLER DIBBLEE,* senior 
member of the firm of W. F. Dib- 
blee & Sons at Woodstock, N. B., is one of the 
most extensive and prosperous hardware mer- 
chants in Carleton Count)'. Son of Ebenezer 
Dibblee, he was born in Northampton, N.B. , 
July 9, 1 8 10. He is a descendant of one of 
the early .settlers of this part of the Province, 
his grandfather, Fyler Dibblee, a Loyalist, 




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having come to New Brunswick from Stamford, 
Conn., in 1783, with his wife and famil}'. 
Fyler Dibblee was a lawyer by profession, and 
for several years after settling here was a 
commissioner for the colony of loyal immi- 
grants. 

Ebenezer Dibblee was born in Stamford, 
Conn., in 1773. When a young man he car- 
ried the mail on horseback between Frederic- 
ton and the parish of Norton for a number of 
seasons. He afterward purchased land in the 
parish of Petersville, Queens County, and 
there improved a good farm. He married 
Elizabeth Secord, of Kings County, by whom 
he had eleven children : Mrs. Caroline Under- 
bill, deceased; Samuel, deceased; Mrs. Eliza 
Wallace, a widow, who lives in Sunbury 
County, New Brunswick; Mrs. Sophia Record, 
deceased; William Fyler, the special subject 
of this sketch; Mrs. Ann Flewelling, de- 
ceased; Isaac, deceased; Charlotte, widow of 
John Stockford, who resides in the jDarish of 
Hampstead, Queens County; Sidney Albert, 
deceased, late of the parish of Petersville and 
at one time Coroner of Queens County, who 
had two children — William and Annie; Jane, 
deceased, who was the wife of the late James 
Smith; and Margaret, who is the widow of the 
late James Jones and lives at Lancaster, St. 
John County, N. B. Both parents were mem- 
bers of the Church of England. 

William F. Dibblee received such educa- 
tional advantages as were afforded the boys of 
his day and generation, and until twenty years 
of age worked on the home farm. Coming to 
Woodstock, he worked in the lumber woods 



a few years, and then became a clerk for John 
Walter Bedell. A year or two later he ac- 
cepted the position of travelling agent and 
collector for Robert Rankin & Co., with whom 
he remained two years. Starting then in busi- 
ness for himself, he engaged in the manufact- 
ure of lumber until 1870, when on account of 
ill health he gave up all active work for seven 
years. In 1877 Mr. Dibblee, in company 
with his son, J. T. Allan Dibblee, under the 
present firm name of W. F. Dibblee & Son, 
embarked in the hardware business in Wood- 
stock; and by their untiring energy and enter- 
prise they have developed one of the largest 
wholesale and retail trades of the county, their 
store being the leading one of the kind. They 
handle all lines of hardware, including carriage 
stock of all kinds and agricultural implements; 
and they deal also in bricks, lime, phosphates, 
and so forth. In their Woodstock store they 
employ five clerks and a teamster, and they 
also have a branch store at Hartland that is 
well patronized. 

Mr. Dibblee, when a young man, was Lieu- 
tenant in the Woodstock Cavalry Company, of 
which he was later commissioned Captain. 
He served as a member of the first Council of 
the town of Woodstock, and subsequently filled 
the same office several terms. Fraternally^ he 
is a member of Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M., 
of which he is Past Master; is Past Deputy 
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New 
Brunswick ; and is Supreme Grand of the Royal 
Arch Chapter of Scotland. He is a member 
of the Church of England, in which he was 
warden of the jparish church for seven years. 



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Mr. Dibblee first married Anna Gill, daugh- 
ter of Captain Anthony Barker, of St. Mary's, 
York County, N. B. Of the children born of 
this union two are now living, namely: George 
Young, of Fredericton ; and J. T. Allan. Mrs. 
Ann G. Dibblee died in October, 1866. Mr. 
Dibblee subsequently married Margaret Jane, 
daughter of Peter Clements, of Woodstock. 

J. T. Allan Dibblee was born October 20, 
1856, in Woodstock, where he was brought up 
and educated. When a lad of fourteen years 
he entered the hardware store of Smith 
Brothers, with whom he remained three years, 
in the mean time acquiring a good knowledge 
of the business. Going then to St. John, he 
was in the employ of Adam' Young, a hardware 
merchant, until he formed a partnership with 
his father as junior member of the firm with 
which he has since been connected. He is 
a man of excellent judgment and business 
ability, and is one of the directors of the Wood- 
stock Wood Working Company and the presi- 
dent and manager of the Woodstock Carriage 
Company. He ranks high as a Mason, being- 
Past Master of Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M., 
Past District Grand Master of the Grand 
Lodge, and a member of W oodstock Chapter, 
R. A. M. He also belongs to Ivanhoe Lodge, 
K. of P. In Dominion jDolitics he is a Liberal 
Conservative. Previous to 1890 he served five 
years in the Town Council and one year in 
the County Council. In iSgo he was elected 
Mayor of Woodstock, and served so acceptably 
to all concerned that he was re-elected to the 
same office the succeeding year. In 1892 he 
was elected to the Provincial Parliament for 



a term of three years, and in 1895 re-elected 
for a similar term. He has served on various 
committees, including that of Committee on 
Public Accounts. He is a member of the 
Church of England. He married Maria, 
daughter of John Ellegood, of the parish of 
Dumfries, York County, N. B. , and has seven 
children; namely, William Jack, Beatrice 
Maud, Nora Louise, Annie Ellegood, Margaret 
Neal, George Allan, and Ruth DeVernet. 



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EORGE D. PRESCOTT,* a prominent 
\F^J_ young business man of Albert, N. B., 
was born May 16, 1864, at Eastport, Me., 
where his father, Moses Prescott, is now liv- 
ing. He is a grandson of the late Jesse Pres- 
cott, who emigrated from Maine to Charlotte 
County, New Ikunswick, in 181 5, and was 
thereafter for many years one of its most re- 
spected citizens. Further facts in regard to 
the famil}' may be found on another page of 
this volume, in connection with the sketch of 
Isaac Clayton Prescott, a cousin of George 
D. P. Prescott. 

Moses Prescott was born in April, 1827, in 
Pennfield, N.B., and there acquired his pre- 
liminary education, subsequently pursuing 
more advanced studies at Fredericton, N. B. 
While still a young man he engaged in the 
lumber business at New River, N. B., starting 
on a somewhat limited scale, and working his 
way onward to success. From time to time 
he has extended his operations and his pur- 
chases, and now owns valuable timber land in 
various sections of the Province. Since 1S76 






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he has lived practically retired from active 
business pursuits, although he is still largely 
interested in lumbering, and makes Eastport, 
Me., his place of residence. A fine represent- 
ative of the self-made men of our times, he is 
greatly esteemed for his high character, up- 
right principles, and strict integrity. Not 
bound to any political party, he votes the In- 
dependent ticket. He is prominent in Ma- 
sonic circles and a member of the Eastport 
Commandery. Pie married Alice Chaffee, of 
Indian Island, Charlotte County, N.B., and 
they have two children; namely, Kate and 
George Don Pedro. Kate is the wife of 
Frank T. Wadsworth, of Eastport, Me., and 
has three children — Prescott K. , Edward T., 
and Roland. Both parents are members of the 
Eastport Baptist church. 

George D. Prescott attended the schools of 
Eastport and Waterville in Maine, afterward 
completing his general education at Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. Going then to Shulie, N. S., 
he was there for seven years engaged in 
the lumber business as head of the firm of 
Prescott, Gillespie & Co. In 1893 he dis- 
posed of his interest in that firm, and, having 
removed to New Brunswick, established him- 
self as a lumber manufacturer and dealer in 
the parish of Albert, Albert County, N.B. 
On the West River he has a large steam saw- 
mill, in which he employs severalhands; and 
he is also the president of the Prescott Lumber 
Company at Benjamin River, of which he was 
one of the promoters. Possessing in an emi- 
nent degree the push, pluck, and steadfastness 
of purpose necessary to insure success, he has 



prospered in his undertakings, and has fair 
promise of a satisfactory business career before 
him. A Conservative in politics, he was 
elected County Councillor in 1895, and in 
1897 was honored with a re-election to the 
same position. He is a Mason, belonging to 
the Albert Blue Lodge, of which he is Senior 
Warden, and is also a member of Botsford 
Chapter, R. A. M. He is also serving his 
fellow-townsmen as one of the School Trustees. 
On December 8, 1893, Mr. Prescott married 
Jessie, daughter of Andrew McLane, of Stran- 
vear, Scotland; and they have one child, 
Ethelyn, who was born October 2, 1894, at 
Riverside, N.B. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott are 
members of the Baptist church at Albert. 



j^-\ATRICK DEVER, who died on Oc- 
"-^ tober 27, 1 88 5, was well known in 
former years as one of the largest 
dry-goods merchants of Fredericton, his native 
place. He was a son of Patrick and Mary 
(Campbell) Dover. His father was of Irish 
descent, and his mother of Scotch. 

Patrick Dover completed his education in 
the collegiate school, and was a classmate of 
Mr. Roberts, the present canon of the Fred- 
ericton cathedral. After leaving school he 
entered the employ of George Patterson, who 
was doing an extensive business in dry goods. 
By degrees the different departments of the 
store were intrusted to his charge, and finally 
the entire care fell upon his shoulders, Mr. 
Patterson placing absolute confidence in his 
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under his management was so successful as to 
greatly exceed its former limits. After some 
years as manager, upon the death of Mr. Pat- 
terson he bought out the business, and, taking 
his brother James in as partner, continued to 
conduct the business until his death, the firm 
being Dever Brothers. Under the same name 
the business is still conducted by its present 
proprietor, James Dever. The warmest friend- 
ship always existed between Mr. Dever and 
his former employer. The latter, living alone, 
was wont to depend upon him in time of sick- 
ness. Other friends were the late Governor 
Boyd, the Hon. Mr. Blair, Sir John C. Allen. 
Great respect was shown to Mr. Dever's mem- 
ory on the day of his funeral, the stores, 
offices, and public places being generally 
closed. A letter of condolence was received 
from John Boyle O'Reilly. D. J. Hennessey, 
a well-known business man of f^utte, Mont., 
and a Representative, learned his business 
with Mr. Dever. In politics he was a Liberal, 
and he was offered but refused a seat in the 
Legislative Council. Though of a retiring- 
disposition, he was nevertheless a leader in 
public matters. He was one of the School 
Trustees from April g, 1877, mitil his death. 
In religious belief he was a Roman Catholic. 

Mr. Dever married Margaret, daughter of 
Edward Seery, a native of Ireland, who came 
to this country and for thirteen years was a 
City Councillor of Fredcricton. Mr. and Mrs. 
Dever had five children, sons, namely: James 
(deceased) ; Frederick, now engaged with the 
Merchants' Bank of Halifax and of P"rederic- 
ton ; Otto; James; and Joseph. Mrs. Dever 



has recently been appointed to the office of 
School Trustee, and is now serving her second 
term. 




LLISON BARLOW . CONNELL, 
LL. B.,* barrister-at-law, Woodstock, 
N. B. , is junior member of the law 
firm of P"isher & A. B. Connell. He was born 
in Woodstock, September iS, 1S50, a son of 
George Connell, and on both sides of the house 
is of honored pioneer stock and of New Eng- 
land ancestry. 

Charles Connell, his paternal grandfather, 
was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1777. 
When twelve years old he came with his 
parents to New Brunswick, and in Fredericton 
served an apprenticeship at the trade of a tan- 
ner and shoemaker. Subsequently locating at 
Northampton, N. B. , he embarked in the tan- 
ning business, and met with such eminent suc- 
cess that at the time of his death he owned 
and operated one of the largest tanneries in the 
Province. He was also an extensive agricult- 
urist, and superintended the management of 
his four or five large farms himself, employing 
on the tanneries and on the farm about forty 
men. He was an active member of Morning 
Star Lodge, F. & A. M., of Fredericton. He 
married Mary, daughter of Charles Palmer, 
who emigrated from England to Woodstock. 
They had the following named children: Jere- 
miah, Henry F., Maria, Charles, William, 
Joseph, George, Lydia, James, John F. , Fred- 
erick A., and Eliza. 

George Connell, born at Northampton, N.B. , 
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tion at Annapolis, N.S., and in Worcester, 
Mass. He began tlie study of law under 
A. K. S. Whetmore, of Woodstock, and con- 
tinued his studies with the late Judge Fisher, 
of Fredericton. In 1840 he was admitted as 
attorney and in 1843 as barrister, and, coming 
to Woodstock in the former year, commenced 
the practice of his profession, which he con- 
tinued until 1879, since which time he has 
lived retired from the activities of life. For 
several years he was also interested in other 
important enterprises, having been the owner 
of a number of steamboats which plied between 
St. John and Fredericton and between the 
latter place and Grand Falls. He is a member 
of Woodstock Lodge, F. & A. M. He married 
Mary Ann, daughter of David Fisher, of St. 
John, and a sister of the late Edwin Fisher, 
a well-known timber merchant. She died in 
1S84, aged fifty-eight years. She was a de- 
voted member of the Methodist church, which 
he attends and supports. Of their children 
three survive, namely: Allison Barlow; Jere- 
miah Max, of San Paulo, Brazil; and Minnie, 
wife of John Stewart, of Woodstock. 

David Fisher, Mr. Connell's maternal grand- 
father, married Maria Grace Barlow, daughter 
of Joseph and Martha (Wright) Barlow. The 
first band of Loyalists to settle in Acadia 
arrived in ships at the mouth of the St. John 
River on May 18, 1783, and landed on Navy 
Island. Among them were Ezekiel Barlow 
and Captain William Wright, Both had pre- 
vimisly been in good circumstances, the latter, 
especially, having owned a large property on 
Staten Island, N. Y. In the Barlow household 



were four children: Ezekiel; Jesse; Joseph; 
and Grace, the wife of Captain Joseph Shelton, 
of the Royal Navy. The children of the 
Wright family were: Elizabeth, John Watson, 
William, and Martha. Living as near neigh- 
bors in their new homes, a friendship sprang 
up whereby a happy union of the two families 
was effected by the marriage, about 1787, of 
Joseph Barlow and Martha Wright. Equally 
well skilled in carpentry, whether finishing 
off a ship's cabin or building the first dwell- 
ing-house at Reed's Point, Joseph Barlow by 
his energetic industry maintained a happy and 
comfortable home until, through failing health, 
death overtook him when he was but forty- 
eight years of age. His widow, left with ten 
children, lived to see them all well settled in 
life, and at the age of eighty-eight years, on 
July 15, 1857, passed to her eternal home. 
She was a charter member of the first society 
of Methodists formed in St. John. Her chil- 
dren were: William, who married Mary Mar- 
geson ; Mary, who married first Murdock 
McCauley and after his death Angus Campbell ; 
Maria Grace, who married David Fisher; 
Elizabeth, who married Thomas Fenwick; 
Catherine, the wife of the Rev. William Mur- 
ray Wesmith; Thomas, married to Isabella 
Wrightman ; Marietta Margaret, who became 
the wife of Henry Whiteside; and Sophia, 
married to John Emery Dow. 

Allison Barlow Connell received the rudi- 
ments of his education in the granmiar school 
of Woodstock, and in 1872 graduated from the 
University of New Brunswick with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. Then, after reading law 



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with his father and with the late Judge Duff, 
of St. John, he attended lectures at the Har- 
vard Law School, from which he received the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1873. Return- 
ing immediately to Woodstock, he was ad- 
mitted attorney in 1874 and as barrister in 
1875. -^^ once forming a partnership with 
Lewis P. Fisher, brother of the late Judge 
Fisher, under the present firm name of Fisher 
& A. B. Connell, he began the practice of the 
profession in which he has met with such sig- 
nal success. For a number of years he was 
Clerk of the Circuits, and in 1S95 he was 
created Queen's Counsel. He is interested 
in local affairs, and has taken an active part 
on the Conservative side of politics. Frater- 
nally, he is a member of Woodstock Lodge, 
F. & A. M., and of Woodstock Chapter, 
R. A. M., of which he is Past Principal. 

On October 3, 1877, Mr. Connell married 
Mary E., daughter of the late F. R. Jenkins 
Dibblee, who was for more than thirty years 
Sheriff of Carleton County. Mr. and Mrs. 
Connell have three children; namely, E. Ken- 
neth, Allison Beresford, and Norris Barlow. 




'ENRY A. POWELL,* a leading citi- 
zen of Sackville, N. B. , is one of the 
most prominent and best known 
men of Westmorland County, and for the past 
ten years has been actively identified witli its 
jniblic affairs. A son of the late Edmund 
Powell, he was born April 6, 1855, in Richi- 
bucto, Kent County, N. ]>. 

The founder of the Powell family in Amer- 



ica was one Thomas Powell, who emigrated 
from Wales and settled on Long Island, N. Y. , . 
while it was under the dominion of the Dutch. 
Receiving from the government a grant of land 
containing about six thousand acres, he estab- 
lished his home on the island's shore, where 
he continued his residence until his decease, 
some time during the seventeenth century. 
He was a Quaker in religion, and had the 
Quaker habits of industry and thrift. Among 
his numerous descendants have been many to 
attain prominence in New York and in other 
States of the Union, as well as in the Prov- 
inces. One of his children, Caleb Powell, 
was twice married, and by his first wife had 
a son Caleb, whose son Jacob was an early 
settler of Richibucto, N.B. , and one of the 
most influential citizens of his day. The sec- 
ond wife of Caleb Powell, first, was Mary 
Weeks, to whom he was married in New York 
prior to 1784. Being Loyalists, the)' emi- 
grated that year to New Brunswick, and settled 
at Grimross Neck on the St. John River, in 
Queens County. One of their sons, Solomon 
Powell, the great-grandfather of Henry A., 
came at that time with his wife and children 
to this Province, where he subsequently en- 
gaged in lumbering and fishing until his death, 
when well advanced in years. Of his union 
with a Miss Wright five children were born, 
of whom the youngest, Absalom V., was the 
next in the line of descent now being con- 
sidered. 

Absalom F. Powell came with his parents 
to New Brunswick when a \'ery small child. 
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iiess with his brother, Solomon, Jr., in Richi- 
bucto, Kent County, as a ship-builder, and was 
also largely interested in the fishery trade. 
He died when but thirty-six years old; and 
his brother, Solomon, Jr., was lost at sea a few 
years later. Absalom F. Powell married Ann 
Hardy, by whom he had five children, of whom 
Solomon T. is the only one now living. 

Edmund Powell, son of Absalom F. , was 
born in Richibucto, N.B., in 1808, and there 
spent his entire life of seventy-six years. 
During his earlier life he followed the trade 
of blacksmith, at which he had served an ap- 
prenticeship; but afterward he built several 
sea-going vessels, and for many years was very 
successfully engaged in the coasting trade. 
He married Ann, daughter of Wilfred Forster, 
who was of English birth; and she survives 
him, making her home in Sackville. Five 
sons and two daughters blessed their union, 
and of these six children are still living, 
namely : Elizabeth, wife of Dr. David Allison, 
LL. D., of Sackville, who has three children 
— Edmund P., David, and Harry; William, 
who married Annie Barnes, of Richibucto, and 
has four children — Mary E. , William Ed- 
mund, Elizabeth, and Sarah; Charles, who 
married Eliza Wallace, daughter of A. G. 
Wallace, of Dalhousie, N. B. , and has one 
child, Allison; Alfred, who married Agnes 
Mashaud and has four children — Margaret, 
Henry, Herbert, and Lyold C. ; Henry A., the 
special subject of this brief biography; and 
Clifford. 

Henry A. Powell attended the grammar 
school of Richibucto in his earlier years, and 



in 1875 graduated from Mount Allison Uni- 
versity at Sackville. Fie subsequently began 
the study of law with Christopher Milner, 
Esq., of Sackville, where in 18S0 he began the 
practice of his profession, and has since con- 
tinued his residence. He has built up an ex- 
tensive clientage, and is known far and wide 
as one of the foremost lawyers of Westmore- 
land County. He takes an intelligent interest 
in everything pertaining to the public welfare, 
and never shirks the responsibilities of office. 
He is one of the Board of Governors of Mount 
Allison University. 

A Liberal Conservative in politics, he has 
been the successful contestant in various elec- 
tions. In 1890 he was a candidate for the 
House of Assembly, when, his election being 
contested, the Hon. Judge (then Mr.) Haning- 
ton and Amasa E. Killam formed a coalition 
ticket, consisting of two Conservatives, in op- 
position to the Blair government. Mr. Powell 
and H. T. Steeves, editor of the Moncton 
Times, ran as opponents, and were elected by 
a large majority. A petition against the elec- 
tion was then filed; and Messrs. Powell and 
Steeves, after filling their seats in the House 
during one session, resigned. When the new 
election to fill these vacancies was called, Mr. 
Powell was again elected, but Mr. .Steeves was 
defeated. In 1892, in the general election, 
Mr. Powell was again elected to the same 
position, this time with a flattering majority, 
being the second at the poll; but his three 
colleagues. Judge W. W. Wells, Mr. Milan- 
son, and F. W. Sumner, were defeated. He 
remained in the local Legislature until the 



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elevation of the Hon. Josiah Wood, M. P. , to 
the Senate, in 1895, when he was urged by the 
Conservative Committee to resign his seat in 
the local House and become candidate for the 
vacancy in the House of Commons. He ac- 
quiesced, and in August, 1895, was elected by 
a majority of eight hundred votes. During 
his first term in the House of Commons he 
was a very prominent advocate of a remodelled 
Legislature in Manitoba, taking a stand upon 
that question that drew down upon him the 
opposition of a large number of his constitu- 
ents, with the result that in the election of 
1896 he was returned to the House with a 
majority of fifteen only. 

On June 26, 1S78, Mr. Powell married Mary 
A., daughter of the Rev. George P. Payson. 
a Methodist minister. They have two children 
— Lena and Ralph. 



fs^AMES VENNER RUSSELL, an en- 
terprising boot and shoe dealer of St. 
John, was born in that city, August 2, 
1862, son of John and Mary (Keltie) Russell. 
He received his education in the public 
schools of St. John, and at the age of fifteen 
years began his first industrial experience as 
clerk for Vincent & McFate, remaining with 
the firm for nine months. At the end of that 
time he removed to the North P^nd, then Port- 
land, to take charge of Mrs. T. A. Vincent's 
shoe business, which he conducted subse- 
quently for si.xtcen years. In 1895 he pur- 
chased the business, which he now carries on, 
doing a thriving trade. His store is one of 



the best stocked, and his business is one of 
the largest in St. John. 

Mr. Russell was married, February 15, 1893, 
to Miss Lizzie Gray, of Portland, daughter of 
William and Mina (Scott) Gray. He has two 
children — Edith and Muriel. Mr. Russell 
is a jjrominent member of the L O. O. F. , 
being High Auditor of the order in New 
Brunswick. He is a school trustee for the city 
of St. John. 



-rp)TENRY A. WHITNEY,* a former 
f^^ Mayor of Moncton, N.B., is now liv- 
^- — • ing in that city, retired from active 
business pursuits. Descended from sturdy New 
England ancestors, he was born February 11, 
1834, in St. Stephen, N. B. , a son of Berick 
W. and Lucy (Hall) Whitney. His great- 
grandfather, Reuben Whitney, was born in 
that part of Portland, Me., that was formerly 
called Falmouth, and there grew to man's es- 
tate. Reuben became a pioneer settler of 
Jonesville, Me., where he engaged in farming 
and lumbering during the remainder of his 
life. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
Weston, bore him several children, of whom 
their second child, Ephraim B. , was the grand- 
father of Henry A. Whitney, the special sub- 
ject of this sketch. 

Plphraim B. Whitney, whose birth occurred 
in 1769, was the first white child born in 
Jonesville, Me., where he spent his long and 
busy life, engaged chiefly in lumbering and 
mercantile pursuits. He died in 1857, at a 
venerable age. He was for many years one of 




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the most prominent citizens of tlic town, and 
in iSio represented tlie Eastern District of 
the State in the General Court. By his 
wife, Sarah, who was a daughter of Ethan 
Allen Noyes, he had a family of thirteen 
children. 

Berick W. Whitney, son of Ephraim B. , 
was born in Jonesville, Me., where he spent 
his early years. Soon after attaining his ma- 
jority he settled in St. Stephen, N.B. , in 
which place he made his permanent home, re- 
siding there until his death, at the age of 
fourscore years. An energetic, progressive 
man, he carried on for many years an exten- 
sive and profitable business as a lumber manu- 
facturer and dealer, and was numbered among 
the influential citizens of his locality. In 
politics he was a Conservative and in his re- 
ligious belief a Universalist. His wife, Lucy 
Hall Whitney, was a daughter of William 
Hall, who was a cousin of the late Neal Dow, 
of Portland, Me. They became the parents of 
six children, of whom three are living, namely : 
Henry A., whose name begins this sketch; 
Horace, who married Garafielda Palmer, of 
Baring, Me., and has six children; and Charles 
T. , who married a Miss Starkey, of St. John, 
N.B. , and has six children. Mrs. Lucy H. 
Whitney outlived her husband, passing away 
at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. 

Henry A. Whitney grew to manhood in St. 
Stephens, and obtained a practical education 
in the public schools of that place. In 1857 
he removed to Moncton, where he has since 
resided, and, until his resignation after a con- 
tinuous service of thirty-five years, was en- 



gaged in railroad work. He was first con- 
nected, when but eighteen years old, with the 
St. Croix & Penobscot Railway, and was sub- 
sequently an engineer on the European & 
North American Railroad for several years. 
During the latter part of the time he served as 
mechanical superintendent of that road. In 
politics Mr. Whitney is independent. He has 
always taken a deep interest in town affairs, 
and, besides having served as School Trustee 
for fourteen years, was Mayor of Moncton in 
1894. He is a Mason, belonging to Union 
Lodge, F. & A. M., of Portland, Me. 

Mr. Whitney has been twice married. His 
first wife, Margaret Lindsay Whitney, a daugh- 
ter of Alexander Lindsay, of St. John, N.B. , 
died at the age of thirty-two years, leaving one 
child, Margaret, who is now the wife of Will- 
iam Cowling, of Moncton, and has two chil- 
dren — Mary W. and Henrietta L. Mrs. 
Margaret Whitney was a Methodist in religion. 
Mr. Whitney subsecpiently married Henrietta 
Elliot, daughter of John Elliot, of England, 
a grandson of Lord Heathsfield. The second 
Mrs. Whitney died when fifty years old, leav- 
ing two children: Lucy A., wife of John H. 
Harris, of Moncton, who has one child, John 
W. Harris; and Harriet S. Mrs. Henrietta 
E. Whitney was a member of the Anglican 
church. 



fs^OHN WALKER,* the oldest established 
merchant tailor in Woodstock, N. B., is 
a typical representative of the thrifty 

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born August lo, 1835, in Aberdeen, Scotland, 
a son of James Walker, Jr. His paternal 
grandfather, James Walker, Sr., a lifelong 
resident of Aberdeen, was gardener for the 
Duke of Athol. 

James Walker, Jr., was born and educated 
in Aberdeen, Scotland, and there during his 
active career followed the occupation of a meter 
of grain. Of his marriage with Amanda, 
daughter of Andrew Milne, of Aberdeenshire, 
eleven children were born, of whom seven 
grew to adult life: William; John; Alexan- 
der, now deceased; Ann, wife of William Por- 
ter, of Aberdeen; Mary; Ellen; and James. 
Both parents were faithful members of the 
Presbyterian church. 

John Walker received his early education in 
Aberdeen, where also he learned the tailor's 
trade. In 1865, at the age of thirty, he left 
his native country and emigrated to St. John's, 
Newfoundland, where he worked at his trade 
for a year. During the following two years 
he was employed as a tailor in Halifax, N.S., 
whence he proceeded to St. John, N.B. From 
St. John he went to Woodstock ; and after 
following his trade there for a year and a half 
he opened in 1S69 his present place of busi- 
ness, and has since continued as a merchant 
tailor. He has a large and profitable patron- 
age in Woodstock and the vicinity, and em- 
ploys an average of seven or eight hands. He 
is a member of Woodstock Lodge, V. & A. M., 
and while in Halifax, N. S. , was made an Odd 
P'ellow. He belongs to the Presbyterian 
church. 

Mr. Walker married Barbara Wilson, a 



daughter of James Wilson and a native of 
London, England. Her parents were Scotch ; 
and she was brought up in Scotland, but at the 
time of her marriage was living in Woodstock, 
N.B. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have six children: 
James Marvin, who is employed in the Bank 
of Nova Scotia at Cantwell, N. S. ; Hans Will- 
iam, a resident of Woodstock ; Barbara Gordon ; 
John D. ; Wallace; and Charles G. 



/^TeORGE E. COULTHARD, M.D., a 
'\mJ_ widely-known physician residing at 
Fredericton, was born there, August 24, 1849, 
son of George and Maria (Hanselpacker) 
Coulthard. 

The Doctor's paternal and maternal ances- 
tors came respectively from Scotland and Hol- 
land. The records show many instances of 
longevity on both sides. His great-grand- 
father Coulthard, born at Gretna Green, on 
the borders of Scotland, in 1766, died in 
1S41; and his great-grandmother Coulthard 
died in Ontario, aged ninety-three. His 
grandfather Coulthard died at eighty-eight; 
and his grandmother, a Miss Black before mar- 
riage, lived to be fourscore years of age. 

George Coulthard, father of the subject of 
this sketch, was born in Dumfriesshire, near 
Bridekirk Village, Scotland, in 181 5. When 
five years old, in June, 1820, with his father 
and grandfather he came to America, his 
father settling in York County, which was 
their subsequent home. His father and grand- 
father had acquired their living by tilling the 
soil. He, however, chose a mercantile career, 




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and for years did a successful business in 
Fredericton as a boot and shoe merchant. He 
was a man of quiet, unassuming character, a 
member of the Methodist church, and one of 
those who assisted in rebuilding the present 
edifice. Mrs. Maria H. Coulthard was of 
Dutch descent. Her grandfather Hanselpacker 
came here from Albany, N. Y. , in 1783, with 
the Loyalists. Her father married a Miss 
Balmain of Loyalist descent. Mr. Coulthard 
died in 1888, aged seventy-three. His wife 
died at seventy-one years of age. They were 
the parents of four children, two of whom died 
in infancy. 

George E. Coulthard in his boyhood and 
youth attended successively the Fredericton 
Grammar School and the University of New 
Brunswick, receiving the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts from the latter in 1868. Four years 
after, having graduated from Harvard Medi- 
cal School in 1872, and having served a year 
in the Boston City HosjDital as house surgeon, 
he was registered as a physician. Lie began 
his professional practice in Fredericton in 
1872, but after eighteen months proceeded 
to take a post-graduate course at Edinburgh 
(Scotland) University; and on completing the 
same he resumed his practice in Fredericton, 
where he has since followed it continuously. 

Dr. Coulthard is connected with the leading 
medical organizations of the country, being a 
member of the British Medical Association, 
the Canadian Medical Association, the Mari- 
time Medical Association, the New Brunswick 
Medical Association, and the York County 
Medical Association. He was president for 



two years of the Council of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New Brunswick, president of the 
New Brunswick Medical Society in 1895, and 
vice-president of the Maritime Medical Asso- 
ciation for New Brunswick in 1896. He is a 
trustee of the Victoria Hospital, and has been 
on the Board of Surgeons since its incorpora- 
tion. For a year and a half he has been 
chairman of the Fredericton School Board, 
and he has been a member of the board some 
eighteen years. He is secretary of the Pro- 
vincial Board of Health and Chief Health 
Officer of the province. Since 1885 he has 
been a member of the University of New 
Brunswick Senate. Dr. Coulthard is also 
largely connected with fraternal circles, being 
a member of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M., of 
Fredericton, of the Lidependent Order of Odd 
Fellows, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Inde- 
pendent Order of Foresters, of the Home 
Circle, and of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. Since 1875 he has been a member 
of the Methodist church and since 1878 one of 
its Board of Trustees. 

Dr. Coulthard was married in 1882 to 
Annie C. Hunter, daughter of the late James 
Hunter, a mill-owner in St. John. They ha\'e 
one daughter, Gertrude, who is attending the 
Fredericton Grammar School. 



Tt^OBERT NICHOLSON, M.A., M.D.,* 

I ' \ 3 popular ph}'sician and surgeon of 

^^-^ Newcastle, was born in Chatham, 

N. B., in 1865, son of John R. and lilizabeth 

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was Robert Nicholson, a native of Dumfries, 
Scotland, who emigrated with his family to 
Halifax, N. S., and two years after his arrival 
removed to Miramichi, N. B. , settling in Chat- 
ham. Robert Nicholson was a tanner and cur- 
rier, and followed that occupation in Chatham 
for many years. His wife, in maidenhood 
Anna Osborn, was a native of England. They 
were the parents of twelve children, of whom 
seven grew to maturity. 

John R. Nicholson was born in Dumfries, 
Scotland, and came with his parents to New 
Brunswick when quite a child. He was reared 
in Chatham, and became an accountant, which 
occupation he followed during his life. He 
was a prominent Orangeman and an ardent 
supporter of the temperance cause. His wife, 
Elizabeth Richie Nicholson, was a daughter 
of David Richie, and was born near Glencoe, 
Scotland. They were the parents of eight 
children, of whom James, a physician, died at 
the age of thirty years, after having practised 
his profession for some years at Bathurst. 
Charles is a resident of Malone, N.Y. Osborn 
resides in Newcastle, N. 15. Sarah J. is the 
wife of George Brown. John R. Nicholson 
died in January, 1898, at the age of eighty- 
nine years. His wife died in June, 1898, at 
the age of eighty-eight. They had been mar- 
ried sixty-five years. 

Robert Nicholson, the direct subject of this 
•sketch, was educated in the public schools of 
Newcastle and in the university at Eredcric- 
ton. He began his medical studies under the 
direction of H. A. Eish, M.D., of Newcastle, 
and subsequently attended the medical depart- 



ment of the University of New York, at which 
he graduated in 1887. He then spent a year 
in the further study of his profession in the 
hospitals of London, England. Then, return- 
ing home, he began practice in Newcastle 
early in 1889, and has since remained a resi- 
dent of that place. He has won an excellent 
reputation, and has a good practice that is 
steadily increasing. He is a member of the 
I. O. O. E. 

Dr. Nicholson was married in 1894 to Miss 
Margaret Russell, a daughter of M. Russell, 
of Newcastle. He has one child, Sarah D. 




ON. LEMUEL J. TWEEDIE,* of 
Chatham, Provincial Secretary of 
New Brunswick, is of Irish extrac- 
tion, his father having been a native of Lei- 
trim and his mother of County Down, Ireland. 
He was born in Chatham, N. B. , November 30, 
1849, and his education was obtained in the 
grammar schools and at Presh Academy. 
Making choice of the legal profession, he was 
called to the bar in 187 1 after the usual 
course of stud}', and at once entered into prac- 
tice. He has since been conspicuously iden- 
tified with public affairs. Fie was first elected 
to the House of Assembly at the general elec- 
tion in 1874. Eour years later he was an un- 
successful candidate for the same ofifice, but 
was re-elected at the general elections in 1S86, 
1890, 1S92, and 1S95. He was sworn a mem- 
ber of the Executive Council and appointed 
Surveyor-general on February 3, 1890. On 




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the reorganization of the government in July, 
1896, he became Provincial Secretary. In 
his political ojMnions he is a Liberal Conser- 
vative. 

Mr. Tweedie was married December 6, 1876, 
to Agnes, daughter of the late Alexander 
Louden, Esq. 



(5 1 HOMAS WALKER, M.D., a well- 
e J| known and respected physician of St. 
John, N. B. , was born in Hampton, Kings 
County, in this Province, on March 20, 1840, the 
fourth child of the Rev. William Williams 
Walker and his wife, Ann Woodward Walker. 
The first of Dr. Walker's family in America 
was his great-grandfather, Thomas Walker, who 
came from Cumberland, in the north of Eng- 
land, to Boston, Mass., in Colonial days, as an 
officer in His Majesty's service, and was later 
transferred to Annapolis, where he died. 
Thomas Walker, first, was a descendant on the 
paternal side from Elizabeth Yates, a sister of 
the famous Penderell brothers, who were in- 
strumental in saving King Charles 11. after the 
fatal battle of Worcester. 

Captain Thomas Walker, son of the above- 
named Thomas and grandfather of the Doctor, 
was born on September 10, 1763, and was 
brought up and educated in Annapolis. On the 
breaking out of the American Revolution he 
went as a cadet in a regiment commanded by 
Lieutenant Colonel George Turnbull, and on 
August 10, 1780, was commissioned Lieuten- 
ant of a company. At one time he was capt- 
ured ; but he soon after escaped, and at the 



close of the war returned to Annapolis as Cap- 
tain of his company. He subsequently en- 
gaged in mercantile and ship-building business, 
which he followed until his death. He was 
first married on August 11, 1791, to Phoebe 
Walker, who died in 1794, having had one 
child that died in infancy. He was again 
married on December 13, 179S, to Phoebe 
Millidge, by whom he had seven children. 
The following is a brief record of this family : 
Margaret, the eldest, was married first to John 
Newton, second to Richard Simonds, and died 
at the age of seventy-five years. Thomas 
Millidge, the second child, born in 1798, be- 
came the master of a brigantine, and was 
drowned at sea in 1S34. Ann Penn, who was 
born in iSoo, married George Grassie and 
lived to be over eighty years old. William 
Williams, above named, was born in 1802, and 
died in 1889. Phoebe was born in 1805, and 
died in 1891. Mary, who was born in 1806, 
married Edward H. Cutler, High Sheriff of 
Annapolis. Elizabeth, who was born in 1809, 
married Francis W. Pickman. Captain Thomas 
Walker died in 181 1, and his wife died in 
1846. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, 
and he and his family were members of the 
Church of England. 

The Rev. William Williams Walker passed 
his early youth in Annapolis. His education 
was obtained in the grammar school at that place 
and at King's College, Windsor, N. S. Pie was 
ordained by the late Bishop John Inglis, and 
was first employed for a short time as curate 
at Cornwallis. He then went to Charlotte- 
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took charge of the parish at Hampton, Kings 
County, N.B., of which he was subsequently 
rector for a period of fifty-three years. He was 
married in 1834 '^o Ann, daughter of Jesse 
Woodward, a Quaker, who came from New Jer- 
sey to Halifax, and then removed to St. John. 
Mr. Woodward carried on mercantile business, 
and had several sons who were extensively en- 
gaged in the African trade. The Rev. Will- 
iam Williams Walker and his wife were the 
parents of ten children. Of these the eldest 
died in infancy. Margaret, who was born in 
1838, married John A. Wright, and is now 
living in Newton, Mass. William, who was 
born in 1842, married Marion McLaughlin, 
and now resides in Canton, Mass. George, 
who was born in 1S44, married Margaret Tay- 
lor, and is also a resident of Canton, Mass. 
Mary Ann, who was born in 1846, is the 
widow of Franklin L. Bush and a resident of 
Raleigh, N. C. Elizabeth is a Deaconess of St. 
John's Church at Stamford, Conn. Millidge 
Walker, who was born in 1851, married Jessie 
Inches, and is a resident of Cheshire, Conn. 
The Rev. William W. Walker died on May 
17, 1889. His wife died in 1881, at the age 
of seventy-two years. 

Dr. Thomas Walker at the age of twelve 
years entered the Kings County Grammar 
School, and in 1856 matriculated at old King's 
College at Fredericton. From the latter he 
sraduatcd with the degree of Bachelor of Arts 
in 1859; and in the fall of that }'ear he went 
to Scotland, where he began the study of 
medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 
August, 1863, he received his doctor's degree. 



and in the same year obtained the license of 
the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to 
St. John in the fall of 1863, he began the prac- 
tice of his profession, and has since continued 
it with marked success. He has served as sur- 
geon of the general public hospital, and is 
now one of the commissioners appointed by the 
Common Council. He is Surgeon Major to 
the Sixty-second Battalion and a director of 
the Agricultural Society. In 1871 he was 
made a Mason of Albion Lodge, and has since 
passed through all the chairs. In 1877 and 
1878 and again in 1896 and 1897 he was Mas- 
ter of the lodge. He is a P. H. and P. J. 
of Carleton Chapter, R. A. M. , and for four 
years was Commander of the Encampment of St. 
John, K. T. ; also a member of St. John Lodge 
of Perfection, Royal Order of Scotland; was 
elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge 
in 1889, and thus served till 1S95, and was 
again elected to that office in 1897. He is an 
honorary member of Edinburgh Lodge, No. i, 
of Scotland, and was a charter member of the 
Knights of Pythias, New Brunswick Lodge. 
Dr. Walker has served as president of the St. 
John Medical Society, president of the New 
Brunswick Medical Society, and president of 
the Council of Physicians and Surgeons of 
New Brunswick, of which last he is at the 
present time treasurer. 

Dr. Walker was married in July, 1866, to 
Mary R., eldest daughter of the late William 
Jack, O. C. , formerly Ad\'ocate General of New 
Brunswick, of whom mention is made on another 
page of this work. To Dr. and Mrs. Walker 
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1867, Thomas Dyson; in 1869, Mary Helen; 
in 1870, Alice Keble; in 1S72, William War- 
burton, who died in infancy; in 1873, Francis 
Cox; in 1875, Jessie C. ; in 187S, William 
d'Acre; and in 18S1, Edward Blake. Thomas 
Dyson Walker is a rising and popular physician 
of St. John. Mary Helen is the wife of 
Samuel Crane Lord, of Peabody, Mass. ; and 
I'rancis is a teacher of classics in Upper 
Canada College, Toronto. 




|EV. EDWARD S. MURDOCK,* priest 
in charge of the Catholic church at 
Renous Bridge, Northumberland 
County, is a native of New Brunswick, being 
a son of Alexander and Susanna (Bergin) 
Murdock and a descendant in the fourth gener- 
ation of George Murdock, the first progenitor 
of the family in this Province. George Mur- 
dock was a haberdasher, or dealer in small dry 
goods, in his native country, Scotland. Con- 
ceiving the idea of establishing a trade be- 
tween Scotland and New Brunswick in prod- 
ucts supplied by the Indians, such as furs, cod, 
haddock, and salmon, in 1770, with his wife, 
two sons, and a son-in-law, John Malcom, he 
came to America, locating first on Prince Ed- 
ward Island. In 1774 they removed to New 
Brunswick, settling on the Miramichi, at a 
place since known as Murdock's Point, and 
opposite Bortiboge, the present residence of 
the Rev. Father Morrisey. The Indians, being 
hostile to the English settlers on account of 
troubles arising out of the French and Indian 
War, shortly after his arrival here made a raid 



on his homestead, burning his dwelling and 
other buildings and destroying or carrying 
away his stock of goods. This so discouraged 
him that he gave up his original intention and 
devoted his energies to lumbering, farming, 
and fishing, which occupations he folhnved 
until his death in 1794. 

John Murdock was nine years old when he 
accompanied his parents to this country. In 
early youth he assisted his father in the latter's 
trading operations before the Indian raid, and 
subsequently became associated with him in 
his lumber, farming, and fishing enterprises. 
Together they owned the land from river to 
river, about two and a half square miles, hav- 
ing received a grant of it from King George. 
John, who resided on the homestead, married 
a Miss Gilchrist. He died in 1825, at the 
age of sixty years, his wife surviving him. 
Their children were seven in number — James, 
Mary, Elizabeth, George, John, Alexander, 
and William. Of these the last named died 
young. James settled near the parental home- 
stead on a portion of the grant, and followed 
farming and lumbering and latterly fishing. 
He married a Miss Taylor, and died at the 
age of eighty years. Mary became the wife of 
Philip Savoy, whose heirs still reside on 
a portion of the Murdock grant. Elizabeth 
married Philip Murphy, a thrifty farmer and 
a native of Prince Edward Island, who is still 
living. She died at the age of nearly eighty 
years. George married first a Miss Taylor, 
who bore him two children; and after her 
death he married for his second wife a Miss 
McMillan, by whom he had a large family. 



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He died at the age of fifty. John, who mar- 
ried and settled on the homestead, also died at 
the age of fifty. 

Ale.xander Murdock, who was born in 1S19, 
received his elementary education in the public 
schools of his day and at a private boarding- 
school. When his studies were over he joined 
his brothers in fishing and lumbering. In 1845 
he married Miss Susanna Bergin, a daughter 
of John Bergin, who came to New Brunswick 
from Queen's County, Ireland, in 1810. She 
was born in 1825. After his marriage Alex- 
ander settled on a tract of unimproved land, of 
which in due time, by application and perse- 
verance, he made a good farm. Giving his 
attention to agriculture and fishing, he became 
quite prosperous, and accumulated a good prop- 
erty. He and his wife were the parents of 
twelve children, of whom si.x are now living, 
five sons and one daughter. The following is 
a brief record of them : John, who has followed 
the vocation of his ancestors in the vicinity of 
the old homestead, married first a Miss Wall, 
by whom he had several children ; and after her 
death he married for his second wife Miss Mary 
Gay nor, of which union there is one child. 
Margaret Isabella is the wife of Phineas Har- 
riman and the mother of si.x children ■ — Susan, 
AnneB. , Aloysius, Ale.xander, Frederick, and 
Caroline. Alexander, who resides on a portion 
of the old homestead, married a Miss Gaynor, 
and his children are: Caroline, Bertha, Gene- 
vieve, and Frederick. George, who owns a 
part of the homestead, resides at Black Brook. 
He is a contractor and builder by occupation. 
He married a daughter of James h'itzpatrick. 



and has three children. Robert A., who was 
born in 1857, resides in Chatham, where he 
carries on business as a merchant. A separate 
sketch of him is published on another page of 
this volume. Caroline, who was a nun in a 
convent, died in 1885, at the age of twenty- 
five years. William was educated in St. 
Michael's College at Chatham, and taught 
school for some years in Montreal; but, his 
health failing, he returned home and died on 
April 2, 1874, at the age of twenty-two years. 
Edward S. is the priest of the Roman Catholic 
church, whose name appears at the head of 
this sketch. James died on June 27, 1896. 

Mrs. Susanna B. Murdock, the mother of 
these children, is still living, and enjoys a re- 
markable degree of mental and physical vigor. 



/pTEORGE EDWIN FAIRWEATHER, 
V^^J-. barrister-at-law and insurance and 
real estate agent of St. John, N.B. , was born 
in 1833, son of Joseph and Jane (Whittaker) 
I'airweather. He is a descendant in the 
fourth generation of Thomas Fairweather, who 
removed from Connecticut to Long Island, 
N.Y., and thence, in 1783, with other Loyal- 
ists, to New Brunswick. 

Thomas Fairweather settled in Norton, then 
known as Yankee Shore. There he followed 
farming on the Kennebaccasis River, He was 
three times married: first, to a Miss Ray- 
mond, by whom he had one son, William by 
name, who married Nancy Dunham; second, 
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children — Thomas, Henry, Hannah, Sarah, 
Samuel, Edwin, Fanny, Deborah, Charles, 
and James. 

The second Thomas, grandfather of George 
Edwin Fairweather, was six years old when 
he came with his father's family to New 
Brunswick. He was a life-long farmer. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Dixon, 
bore him nine children, as follows: Joseph, 
father of George E. Fairweather; Susan, who 
married Charles De Forest; Julia Elizabeth, 
who died unmarried; Nancy, who married 
Israel Hoyt Foster; Deborah, who died un- 
married ; Thomas, who married Betsey Ket- 
chum ; Samuel ; Edwin, who married Isabella 
Fairweather; and Angel ine, who married 
G. F. Whelpley. 

Joseph Fairweather, son of Thomas and 
Lydia, was reared on his father's farm, but 
upon attaining his majority he came to St. 
John and engaged in the lumber and West 
India trade, which he followed successfully 
for many years. He served as magistrate, 
and for nineteen years was a member of the 
Common Council. His wife, Jane, bore him 
the following-named children : Julia Elizabeth, 
who married Henry F. Perley, C. E. ; George 
Edwin; Thomas Wellington, now deceased; 
Lydia Jane, who married Charles Walker, 
C.E., both of whom are dead; Arthur Clar- 
ence; Joseph Sydney, deceased, who married 
Betty Lewis; Louisa Adelaide; Edmund 
Walker Head; Susan Emma; and Henry 
Hebert. Joseph Fairweather died in 1876, and 
his wife died in 1891. 

George Edwin Fairweather's early life was 



spent in trade. In 1861 he was appointed 
Deputy Common Clerk, and for the thirteen 
succeeding years held this position with 
credit. He also studied law, was admitted as 
a barrister in 1875, and since that time he has 
given his attention largely to his profession. 
In connection with his law practice, however, 
he is extensively engaged in the insurance busi- 
ness and in real estate operations. Among 
the insurance companies he represents may be 
named the following: the London and Lan- 
cashire of Liverjjool, the ^tna of Hartford 
and the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. 
He is also general agent for the Canada Life 
Insurance Company. 

Mr. Fairweather was married in i860 to 
Emma, daughter of the late Richard Titus, a 
prominent ship-builder of St. John. Mr. and 
Mrs. Fairweather are the parents of five chil- 
dren, namely: Edgar Hamilton ; Mary Annie, 
now deceased; Walter Cardwell, deceased; 
Carrie; and Grace Lang. The first-named of 
these, who is in business with his father, mar- 
ried Grace Caldwell, and has a family of four 
children — -Edith Douglas, George Edwin, 
Edgar Darrell, and Harold Bryant. 

George Edwin Fairweather published, in 
1895, a book of original poems, entitled " The 
Stone Church Bell," in memory of his son, 
Walter Cardwell, who died November 17, 1894. 




ILFRED T. JONES,* a skilful and 
enterprising farmer of Boundary 
Creek, Westmoreland County, N. B., was born 
December 18, 1861, in the parish of Moncton, 



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a son of the late Abel Jones. His grand- 
father, Solomon Jones, was also born in Monc- 
ton, N. B. , and during his active life of 
seventy-three years was engaged in tilling the 
soil, his homestead farm being one of the best 
on Steeves Momitain. Solomon Jones married 
Margaret Lutz, who attained the venerable age 
of eighty-four years. Both were valued mem- 
bers of the Baptist church, of which he was 
for many years a Deacon. They had a large 
family of children, of whom eleven grew to 
adult life and si.x are yet living, as follows: 
Matilda, Rosanna, Clinton, Kate, Maria, and 
Solomon. 

Abel Jones, second child of Solomon and 
Margaret, was born on the old homestead on 
Steeves Mountain, where he lived until twenty- 
three years old. Locating then at Boundary 
Creek, he jDurchased the land now owned and 
occupied by his son, Wilfred T. , and by dint 
of persevering toil, wise management, and 
thrift succeeded in clearing and improving a 
comfortable homestead farm, which he man- 
aged until his death, at the age of sixty-three 
years. He married Catherine, daughter of 
Ephraim Steeves, of Moncton; and she sur- 
vived him, and is still living on the home 
farm with lier son. She belongs to the Bap- 
tist church, of which her husband was an 
active member and for a number of years a 
Deacon. She has seven children living; 
namely, Leander, Calvin, Wilfred T., Ephraim, 
Dora, Cecil, and Effie. 

Wilfred T. Jones obtained a practical edu- 
cation in the common schools of Moncton, and 
since the death of his father has had the entire 



care of the homestead property. He has one 
hundred acres of land, much of which is in 
a good state of cultivation, and is carrying on 
general farming with very satisfactory results. 
On March i8, 1896, Mr. Jones married 
Clara L., daughter of William Steeves, of 
Salisbury, N.B., and they have one child, 
Gordon W. , born in March, 1 897. Mr. and 
Mrs. Jones are members of the Salisbury BajD- 
tist church. 



TT^HARLES L. CARTER,* an active and 
I J| able business man of Hopewell Cape, 

^ ' Albert County, N. B. , was born in 

that town, January 26, 1870, a son of Captain 
Benjamin T. Carter. He is of substantial 
English stock, his great-grandfather, Thomas 
Carter, having been born and bred in York- 
shire, England. When a young man Thomas 
Carter emigrated to Canada, and, locating at 
Dorchester, N. B., there married a Miss Sid- 
dall, who bore him a large family of children, 
of whom Christopher, grandfather of Charles 
L. , was the seventh son. 

Christopher Carter was born in Dorchester, 
N. B., and there passed his life, which ex- 
tended to the scriptural limit of threescore 
years and ten. Learning the mason's trade 
when young, he followed that occupation for 
many years, and assisted in building many 
houses in that vicinity. He married Barbara 
McKenzie, who survived him a brief time, 
dying at the age of seventy-four years. In re- 
ligion they were strict Methodists. They be- 
came the parents of eight children, four sons 



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and four daughters, of whom arc now living: 
Captain Benjamin T. ; Duncan, who married 
Jane Palmer, of Dorchester; Jane, wife of 
Alexander Taite, of Moncton, N.B. ; Hattie, 
wife of Ainsley Keiver, of Moncton. 

Captain Benjamin T. Carter was born July 19, 
1S44, in Dorchester, N.B. ; and the days of 
his boyhood and youth were passed in that 
town. In 1862 he went to sea as cook on 
board a coasting-vessel, and within a few years 
had worked his way througli the different 
grades to the position of master of the craft in 
which he sailed. In this capacity he made 
many voyages to foreign ports, and after a 
successful seafaring life of more than three 
decades retired in 1894 to his old home at 
Hopewell Cape, where he is now enjoying a 
well-earned leisure. He married for his first 
wife Julia, daughter of J. Edward Dixon, of 
Hopewell Cape. She died when but twenty 
years old, leaving one son, Charles L. Cap- 
tain Carter subsequently married Althea M., 
daughter of Nathan M. Bennett, also of Hope- 
well Cape. Of this union there are no chil- 
dren. In politics the Captain is independent, 
voting according to his sincere convictions, re- 
gardless of party ties. In November, 1897, 
he was elected as a Councillor of Albert 
County, and he is serving also as one of the 
School Trustees. 

Charles L. Carter obtained the rudiments of 
his education in the schools of his native town, 
after which he took a course at the St. John 
Commercial College, St. John, N.B. The en- 
suing two years were spent in the employ of 
L. Higgins & Co., wholesale boot and shoe 



dealers at Moncton; and he then resigned his 
position to try seafaring life. Shipping" be- 
fore the mast, he sailed for Australia and the 
East Indies, and had a long and satisfactory 
trip going and returning. On his second out- 
ward voyage he was made third mate of the 
vessel, and during the trip home was raised to 
the rank of mate. A short time later he re- 
ceived his master's papers; but, instead of 
taking charge of the ship, he decided to .stay 
ashore and establish himself in business. 
Accordingly, in 1S96, he ojDened his present 
store at Hopewell Cape, with an excellent 
stock of general merchandise, and has since 
carried on a thriving trade. In the same year 
he was appointed Postmaster, an office which 
he is filling most acceptably. 

On April 4, 1895, Mr. Carter married Net- 
tie, daughter of John W. Sulis, of St. John, 
N.B. ; and they have one child, Winifred St. 
John, born December 29, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. 
Carter are members of the Baptist church at 
St. John, N. B. , and Mr. Carter is a member 
of Demoiselle Court, No. 1546, I. O. F. , of 
Hopewell Cape. 



AMES JOSEPH KAYE, for many years 
an eminent lawyer of the Province of 
New Brunswick, was born in Surrey, 
P^ngland, on July 23, 1814, second son of 
James and Sarah (Cox) Kaye. He came to 
Canada in early manhood, and pursued his law 
studies with the late Moses H. Perley. On 
the 4th of February, 1841, he was admitted 
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He received the rank of Queen's Counsel from 
the Provincial government in 1873, and in the 
same year also from the Dominion government. 
Mr. Kaye's death occurred on June 19, 1892. 
The following estimate of his legal character, 
as furnished by Mr. Justice Barker, is perhaps 
as discriminating and as valuable as anything 
that has been written concerning him. Judge 
Barker says : — 

"As a lawyer Mr. Kaye was always a great 
worker. He never 'gambled ' with his cases, 
he took no risks which it was possible to avoid, 
and he provided for contingencies to which 
other practitioners would have given no heed, 
so unlikely were they to occur. His knowl- 
edge of law and legal principles was most ex- 
treme. He read or had read to him all the 
legal literature of the day ; and he became 
easily the leading equity lawyer of his time in 
New Brunswick, and probably in the Maritime 
Provinces. He, however, rarely took part in 
the trial of a cause, and never went on cir- 
cuit. And, although he rather avoided even 
arguing cases before the court, when he did 
his statements were always lucid, his reasons 
were generally sound, his arguments always 
logical, and his manner always earnest and 
convincing. The lay listener was charmed, 
and the professional one instructed. The op- 
ponent alone felt uncomfortable. 

"Mr. Kaye's most appropriate position for 
judicial work was in a court of appeal. 'First 
impressions' and off-hand opinions are as un- 
necessary there as they are out of place. 
There is no obstacle in the way of the most 
deliberate action in a court of last resort; and 



there have been few lawyers in the Province 
better equipped than was Mr. Kaye for a final 
determination of those varied questions which 
result in litigation, or whose judgment upon 
them under such conditions would have been 
more readily accepted." 

The following sketch of Mr. Kaye, which 
formed part of one of the many obituary notices 
that appeared shortly after his decease, was 
written by one of his former students, and well 
illustrates the strong influence he exerted in 
intimate, daily intercourse: — ■ 

"He took nothing for granted, and left noth- 
ing to chance. There was no guess work. A 
title of property examined by him could never 
be defeated, and those who were his students 
and remember the rigid exactness with which 
the records were searched can understand why 
this should be so. 

"In the same way a man whose will was 
drawn by him could die in perfect peace so far 
as the affairs of earth were concerned. Mr. 
Kaye was scrupulously, perhaps unnecessarily, 
exact in the smallest details of whatever he 
undertook to do. He always saw the possi- 
bility of trouble, and amply provided for it. 

"When in partnership with the late Hon. 
John H. Gray, who died a judge in British 
Columbia, an enormous practice was done. 
The partners were so opposite to each other in 
their characteristics that the combination was 
an admirable one. The firm had a high repu- 
tation on both sides of the ocean. The Eng- 
lish clientage embraced the leading houses of 
Great ]?ritain which had any business with this 
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was large; and there were few of the great 
law suits in which Gray & Kaye were not 
retained. " 

Mr. Kaye married Ann Elizabeth Bonsall, 
daughter of George Bonsall. Her father was 
a successful merchant of St. John, and for 
some time a member of the Common Council 
for Dukes Ward. He was the son of Richard 
Bonsall, and grandson of George and Mary 
(Beardmore) Bonsall, of Ecton, Staffordshire, 
England. Richard Bonsall, who was born at 
Old Ecton, in Staffordshire, England, in 1732, 
studied medicine in early life, but subse- 
quently joined his brother, Sir Thomas Bon- 
sall, owner of extensive lead-mines in Aberys- 
twith, Wales, and was mining engineer there. 
In 1769, however, he left Wales for America, 
landing in Philadelphia; and still later he re- 
sided in New York. Upon the evacuation of 
New York by the British in the fall of 1783, 
he removed to New Brunswick, where he was 
shortly appointed by Sir Guy Carleton as a 
Lieutenant in the militia of tiie Province. 
Settling in St. John, he engaged in various 
mercantile pursuits. He was the first treas- 
urer of the Carleton R. A. Chapter in St. 
John, and First Master of Hiram Masonic 
Lodge, the first lodge organized in the city. 
At one time he was a candidate for the Ifouse 
of Assembly, and lawfully elected. But in 
some unaccountable manner the office was 
usurped by his antagonist. He died in P'cb- 
ruary, 1814, and was buried with Masonic 
honors. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kaye were: 
Georgianna M., James Sidney, Mary S. B. , 



Annie J., Edmund G., P'rederick VV., Edith E., 
Florence S. , and J. Henry. The first of these, 
who is the wife of Dr. Lucius Allison, of St. 
John, is the mother of one son, James J. K. 
Allison. James Sidney is general agent for 
the Royal Insurance Company. Pie married 
Stella M., daughter of Richard Scovil, and 
has the following named children: Richard 
Cunningham Bonsall, Sidney Bruce, Florence 
A., and Lorna S. Mary S. B. Kaye, who married 
Frank O. Allison, secretary of the Board of 
Trade, is the mother of four children — Ethel, 
Harold A., Edmund K., and Frank D. Ed- 
mund G. Kaye, barrister-at-law, is one of the 
lecturers of Kings College Law School. 
Edith E. is the wife of Charles J. R. Kerr 
and the mother of three children — Annie I., 
S. E. Mignon, and P" ranees M. D. Florence 
S. Kaye was married June i, iSgg, to Henry 
W. Booth, of London, England. J. Henry is 
a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Regiment. 
He was lately Aide-de-camp to his Honor, 
Lieutenant-Governor A. R. McClelan, but 
sailed with the Canadian contingent for the 
Transvaal, as Lieutenant of the New Bruns- 
wick Company G. 



^Frederick h. hale, a resident of 

I is Woodstock and a member of the Do- 
minion Parliament, was born in the parish of 
Northampton, Carleton County, December 8, 
1844. His father was Martin Hale, a native 
of Ireland, who emigrated to America when a 
boy, and, settling in Northampton, became a 
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the age of sixty-three years. Martin Hale 
married a Miss Dickinson, whose ancestors 
resided in New York State previous to the 
American Revolution. In 1783 four brothers 
bearing this surname Dickinson came East, 
two settling in Bangor, Me., and the others, 
who were stanch Loyalists, locating in New 
Brunswick. One of the latter settled in 
Woodstock, and from him Mrs. Hale was de- 
scended. Martin Hale and his wife were the 
parents of nine children, Frederick H., the 
subject of this sketch, being the seventh- 
born. 

Frederick H. Hale was educated in public 
and private schools, and at an early age began 
work in the lumber camps on the Aroostook 
River. He was employed in the woods in 
Maine during the Civil War, and at the age 
of twenty-three he engaged in business for 
himself, hauling logs for W. H. Murray, of 
St. John, A. F. Randolph, of Fredericton, 
and others. While struggling for a business 
foothold, he labored side by side with his 
men, as well as attending to the planning and 
clerical work of his operations. At length he 
entered into partnership with George Stickney 
for the purpose of engaging in the manufact- 
ure of lumber at Grafton, N. B. ; and later he 
became a member of the firm of Hale & Craig, 
Woodstock, where he carried on a successful 
business for a number of years. Then selling 
out to his partner, he transferred his business 
interests to Fredericton, where he has be- 
come prominent as a lumberman and manu- 
facturer, and for some time has been a mem- 
ber of the firm of Hale & Murchie, who 



own extensive tracts of timber land in New 
Brunswick. 

In 1887 Mr. Hale, at the urgent solicita- 
tion of his party, consented to stand as a Rep- 
resentative of the Independent Liberals for a 
seat in the Dominion Parliament, and was 
elected by a majority of eleven hundred and 
thirty-six votes. He served the regular term 
of four years, during which he was a member 
of the Committees on Rivers and Canals, Mis- 
cellaneous and Private Bills, etc. ; and after 
the completion of his services in 1891 he re- 
turned home with the intention of devoting 
his whole time in future to his large business 
interests. He also differed from his party on 
certain questions, being inclined toward the 
Conservative views, which in the end gained 
his approval and support. In 1896 Mr. Hale 
came forth from his retirement as the Conserv- 
ative candidate; and, although Carleton 
County had never before departed from its 
traditional Liberalism, he was triumphantly 
returned with a majority of four hundred and 
sixteen. Though not a public speaker, and 
taking no prominent part in the debates, he 
exerts a quiet influence which is far more 
effective than the fiery speeches of his oppo- 
nents; and his courteous treatment of all with 
whom he comes in contact has gained for him 
a wide circle of friends, both in politics and 
in business life. 

Mr. Hale contracted the first of his three 
marriages with Rhoda McGee, daughter of the 
late George McGee. She died a year after 
marriage, leaving one son. His second wife, 
Emma ]5oyer, of Carleton Count}', died after 




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seventeen years of wedded life, leaving five 
children. His present wife was before mar- 
riage Lina Faulkner, of Kings County, and 
was formerly a missionary on the Congo River 
in Africa. 

Mr. Hale is a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity and of the Independent Order of For- 
esters. He attends the Free Baptist church, 
and contributes liberally toward its support. 



(^OHN BROOKE GRIEVES, for many 
years the genial and popular proprietor 
of the Waverley House, in Frederic- 
ton, N. B. , his native place, was born on Au- 
gust 10, 1848, and died on December 12, 
1894, at forty-six years of age. He was of 
Scotch extraction. His ancestors emigrated 
from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and 
later came from Ireland to this country. 

Williams Grieves, father of John Brooke, 
was a farmer by occupation. He also ran a 
ferry across the St. John River before the 
bridges were built. The Waverley House 
was established by h.im; and, after he had con- 
ducted it for many years, he gave it over to 
the care of this son. He had many friends. 

John Brooke Grieves, the eldest son of his 
parents, obtained his education in the public 
schools of Fredericton, including the collegi- 
ate school. He then learned cabinet-making, 
which he followed some time; and later on he 
became a clerk in a grocery store. When he 
was twenty-five he became the manager of the 
Waverley House, and remained in charge 
as long as he lived. Since his departure it 



has been conducted by his widow. Mr. 
Grieves was Sergeant-at-Arms in the Flouse of 
Assembly for ten years prior to his death, and 
made many friends throughout the province. 
On the day of his funeral the government 
offices, banks, and stores were all closed. He 
was widely known and beloved for his numer- 
ous kindly and charitable deeds, many of 
which were known only to the recipients of his 
bounty. Both Mr. John B. Grieves and his 
father were prominent Orangemen; and he was 
a member of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M. , in 
which he held office. He was an attendant of 
the Presbyterian church. 

In 1874 Mr. John B. Grieves was united in 
marriage with Ruth, daughter of Abraham 
McKeen, of Bright, York County, N.B., 
where the McKeens were the first settlers. 
Abraham McKeen did a large lumber business, 
and also kept a store. He was a Justice of 
the Peace. He died in his sixty-second year. 
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Grieves; but only their daughter, Annie May, 
survives. She is the wife of Harry Edward 
Dewar, a decorator, of Fredericton, and re- 
sides with her widowed mother. She has one 
son, John Brooke Grieves Dewar, born July 5, 
1897. 






FIOMAS DEAN, dealer in meats and 
provisions, St. John, was born in Sus- 
sex, October 15, 1853, son of Peter and 
Bridget (Caulficld) Dean. His father was 
born in Ireland in 1800; and in May, 1828, 
he emigrated to New Brunswick, coming in 
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Lean. He settled on a farm six miles from 
Sussex, and, as supply stores and money were 
scarce in those days, he conducted a profitable 
business travelling through the country ex- 
changing merchandise for stock and produce. 
He was the first person to bring sheep and 
cattle from Prince Edward Island to the main 
land. There being no church or school in 
Sussex, he brought a teacher from St. John to 
instruct his children, and through his instru- 
mentality the Roman Catholic Chapel was 
erected at Ward's Creek. About the year 1853 
he removed to St. John, and, engaging in busi- 
ness as a drover, became widely known 
throughout the Province. He continued in 
business until 1873, when he retired, and was 
succeeded by two of his sons. He brought up 
a family of twelve children ; namely, Mary, 
Margaret, Jane, Catherine, Bridget, Nancy, 
Ellen, Peter, Rose, Hannah, William, and 
Thomas. Mary married George Harkings, of 
Sussex. Margaret is the wife of Hugh Cum- 
mings, also of Sussex. Jane married Luke 
Burke, of the same place. Catherine is the 
widow of Charles Gallagher. Bridget is the 
wife of John E. Ryan, of Norton. Nancy 
married John McDonald, of St. John. Ellen 
died at the age of twenty-four years. 

Peter Dean, Jr., one of the father's suc- 
cessors in business, married Mary A. Coffee, 
daughter of Andrew and Lucy Coffee, of Am- 
herst, Cumberland County, N. S. Mr. Coffee 
was proprietor of the Cumberland Hotel for 
many years. Peter Dean, Jr., died in 1881, 
leaving a widow and three children — Will- 
iam, Andrew, and Josephine. Rose Dean is 



living with her brother Thomas in St. John. 
Hannah is the widow of John Welch of the 
same place. William, of Maisoneuve, P.O., 
is a member of the Christian Brotherhood, and 
Thomas is the subject of this sketch. The 
father, Peter Dean, Sr. , died in 1890, at the 
age of ninety years, and the mother died in 
1879. 

Thomas Dean was educated in St. John, 
completing his studies at the school of the 
Christian Brotherhood. When a young man he 
became a drover, and succeeded to his father's 
business in company with his brother Peter. 
After the death of the latter he took charge of 
the enterprise, and in 1889 he added to it the 
sausage business formerly carried on by John 
Dean. During the past ten years, with the 
assistance of his nephews, Andrew and Will- 
iam Dean, he has built up a large and profit- 
able trade. 




AMUEL HAYWARD, wholesale 
hardware dealer of St. John, well 
known in the hardware trade 
throughout the Maritime Provinces, was born 
in Studholm, Kings County, in 1840, a son of 
David and Sarah (McCully) Hay ward. His 
great-grandfather Hayward was an officer in 
the British arm)' during the War of the Revo- 
lution, and after the war was over was granted 
a tract of land in Nova Scotia. A part of the 
city of Halifax is built on land contained in 
his grant. After a time he abandoned the 
land, and removed to Albert County, New 
Brunswick, settling where old Shepody now 
stands. There he lived until his death. His 




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son, George Griffith Hayward, grandfather of 
Samuel Hayward, was a farmer by occupation. 
He resided in Sussex, Kings County, and 
there in addition to carrying on farming he 
built and operated what was long known as 
Hayward's Mill at Dutch Valley. He reared 
a family of four sons and four daughters. He 
was one of the organizers of the Liberal party 
in an attempt to divorce politics from the old 
church, and made a hard fight for good govern- 
ment. He withdrew his membership from the 
old church, and assisted in organizing the 
Methodist church in Sussex. He and his wife 
lived to a good old age. 

David Hayward, above named, grew up on 
his father's farm, and followed agricultural 
pursuits throughout his life. His wife, Sarah, 
was a daughter of Esquire Samuel McCully, 
who came from Shepody, and whose family 
were neighbors of the Haywards. This union 
was blessed by two sons and four daughters. 
The daughters were : Marion, now deceased ; 
Susan; Abigail; and Elizabeth, deceased. The 
son, William H., is also deceased. David 
Hayward died at the age of eighty-seven 
years, and his wife at the advanced age of 
ninety-four. 

Samuel Hayward engaged in mercantile 
business for himself when only sixteen years 
of age at Upper Sussex. After continuing 
there for some years his health gave out, and 
he was obliged to give up. He went West, 
and for two years lived among the Rocky 
Mountains seeking to recover his lost vitality. 
In 1870 he came to this city, and became a 
member of the firm of Warwick, Clark & Co., 



hardware dealers. Four years later Mr. 
Warwick withdrew from the company, and 
the name of the firm was changed to Clark & 
Hayward. Three years subsequent to this Mr. 
Clark retired, and Mr. Hayward carried on the 
business under the name of S. Hayward & Co. 
until 1S95, when the business was put into a 
joint stock company and incorporated as The S. 
Hayward Company. Mr. Hayward has since 
been president of the company, which is one of 
the largest hardware concerns in the Maritime 
Provinces. 

Mr. Hayward was married in 1874 to Miss 
Margaret Ryan, a daughter of James Ryan, 
Esq., of Studholm. 



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LES MERRITT BOSTWICK,* 

St. John, wholesale provision mer- 
chant and one of the leading lumber 
manufacturers and dealers of New Brunswick, 
was born in Kingston, Kings County, N.B. , 
June 25, 1833, 3 son of Jared and Mary A. 
(Adams) Bostwick. Jared Bostwick, who was 
born in Kingston, N. B. , November 3, 1794, 
was a son of Isaac Bostwick, who was a native 
of one of the more southern colonies now 
forming a part of the United States, born May 
27, 1760. Isaac was married in New Jersey, 
November 18, 1782, during the Revolutionary 
War, to Tamsan Cable. At the close of the 
war, with his family he came with the Loyal- 
ists to New Brunswick, landing on May 17, 
1783, at a point now forming a part of the 
site of the present city of St. John. He set- 
tled on a tract of land in Kings County, and 



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with his wife brought up a large family of chil- 
dren, of whom the following is a brief record : 
Mary, who was born October 17, 1783; Han- 
ford, born September 21, 1785, who married 
Mary Seeley, November 7, 1822, and died 
August 13, 1865; Hannah, who was born Oc- 
tober 19, 1787; Sarah, born October 23, 1789, 
who died February 15, 1820; Clarissa (twin 
sister of Sarah), who married Daniel Crawford 
and died August 15, 1816; Thomas, born 
January 31, 1793, who married March 22, 
1832, Miss Harriett Bottfain ; Jared, father of 
the subject of this sketch, the date of whose 
nativity has already been given; Ann, born 
February 11, 1797, w'ho married October iS, 
1820, George Prince, and died in March, 1882; 
Jane, born December 29, 1800, who married 
William Whiting, February 24, 1832, and 
died September 11, 1887; Hiram, born Janu- 
ary 6, 1 80-, who married Mary Richards, 
March 15, 1836, and died January 15, 1854. 
Isaac Bostwick, the father, died at Kingston 
in 1808. His wife survived him six years, 
dying in 1S14. 

Jared Bostwick was reared to farming pur- 
suits, which he followed during his life. He 
was married in Westfield to Miss Mary 
Adams, a native of Greenwich, born in 1807. 
Their children were as follows: Isaac S., born 
December 8, 1829; Elizabeth, born May 27, 
1832; Charles Merritt, whose name appears at 
the head of this sketch; Daniel Hiram, born 
March 25, 1S35; John Neville, born December 
26, 1836; Margaret Jane, born October 12, 
1839, who became the wife of W. D. Fowler; 
Thomas Bradford, born December 12, 1842; 



James Jared, born June 11, 184-; and Martha 
Adams, born June 12, 1848, who married 
Hiram Fowler. The father, Jared Bostwick, 
died at Kingston, December 4, 1857, six years 
after the decease of his wife, which occurred 
December 16, 1851. 

Charles Merritt Bostwick was brought up on 
his parents' farm, and received his education 
in the district schools. At the age of twenty- 
five years he went to St. John, where he found 
employment as clerk in a mercantile establish- 
ment. In 1865 he opened an establishment of 
his own on Water Street, where he has since 
conducted a large and lucrative business in 
wholesale groceries and provisions. He has 
also become one of the most extensive lumber 
manufacturers and dealers in the Province, 
owning a large tract of timber land on the 
Salmon River in St. John County, and ship- 
ping his product chiefly to European markets. 
He is also one of the largest real estate owners 
in St. John, the Dufferin Hotel having been 
his property for over twenty-two years. 

Mr. Bostwick was married in Amherst, N. S., 
August 6, 1867, to Miss Mary O'Donnell, a 
native of Amherst, born December 26, 1S36. 
They have had three children — Charles Mer- 
ritt Bostwick, Jr., Elizabeth, and Guy O'Don- 
nell. Charles M. Bostwick, Jr., born March 
23, 1870, was educated in Germany, and sub- 
secpiently engaged in business with his father, 
with whom he is still associated. Elizabeth, 
born May 7, 1872, was taken ill while (■;/ route 
to school at Toronto, and dicil January 29, 
1890. Guy O'Donnell, born June 28, 1879, 
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clerk ill a mercantile house. An Anglican in 

religion, Mv. Bostwick is vestryman of the 

St. John (Stone) Church. He is a member 
of the St. George's Society. 




[From No. 3 of a Series of Leaflets on Canadian History 
issued by tlie publisliers of tlie Educational Review, St. 
Jolin, N.B.] 

GENERAL COFFIN. 

BY I. ALLEN JACK, D. C. L. 

EL the old and man)' of the young citi- 
zens of St. John, N. B. , have heard 
of General Coffin ; and few tourists 
have travelled on the Ri\'er St. John with- 
out having had their attention called to 
the site of the Coffin manor at the foot of 
the Long Reach. But yet there are very 
few persons, even among those who live near 
the General's old home in the Province, who 
know anything of him except his name and 
the tradition as to his place of residence. 

Prior to the fire which, in June, 1877, con- 
sumed the greater part of St. John, including 
Trinity Church, there was in the latter build- 
ing a mural tablet which helped to keep the 
memory of the departed soldier alive. Upon 
this was inscribed the following: — 

Sacred to the memory of General John Coffin and 
Anne Matthews his wife one of the first settlers on the 
River Saint John in the year 17S4 and until the time of 
his death was a member of the Legislative Council of 
this province ever endeavouring to increase the agri- 
cultural and commercial interests of the province : he 
died May iS, 183S in the 85 year of his age. This 
tablet is erected to his memory by his surviving chil- 
dren. 



It is to be regretted that the writer of this 
was apparently unable to recognize the fact 
that the unity existing between husband and 
wife is not generally apparent in the discharge 
of duties in the Legislature or of a public char- 
acter. The inscription, in addition to its dis- 
regard of grammatical rules, is inaccurate as 
to the date of the death, which occurred on the 
twelfth, not on the eighteenth, day of May, 
although the latter might well have been de- 
sired by a Loyalist of New Brunswick as a fit- 
ting time for entering into rest. ' 

The Coffins were in possession of Alwington 
Manor in Devonshire, England, from the time 
of the Norman Conquest; and it is still held 
by their descendants. Many members of the 
family have occujjied conspicuous positions or 
distinguished themselves in many ways. In 
1529 one Sir William Coffin, having discov- 
ered that a certain priest had refused to bury 
a corpse until the only cow of the deceased was 
delivered to him as a burial fee, caused the 
cleric to be placed in the grave, and to be 
nearly, if not entirely, covered with the e.x- 
humed soil. Instead of being punished for 
this ecclesiastical offence, the knight was en- 
abled to effect through his influence in Parlia- 
ment a needed change in relation to burial 
fees. Upon the restoration of the royal family 

' The remains of General Coffin lie in the Church of England burial- 
ground. Westfield, a beautiful spot on a hili overlooking the St. Jolm River, 
about a quarter of a mile distant from the site of the Coffiu manor. To the 
left, oil entering the burial-ground from tlie road which runs close by it, two 
graves are seen with the following inscriptions on the tombstones; — 

GENERAL 

J. COFFIN NATH'L COFFIN 

aged 87. aged 15, 

Near the head of the graves is an oak-tree, a shoot from whicli — not 
more than of two seasons' growth, when the writer visited it in .September 
of this year — has sprung up from the General's grave near the head.— 
Editor. 



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Colonel Tristram Coffin, then Governor of 
Plymouth, who had fought against the crown 
during the war of the rebellion, embarked for 
America and settled with his family at New- 
buryport, Mass. He left his only daughter in 
England, to secure, if possible, his inheri- 
tance. She married a Mr. Pine, who took the 
name of Coffin; and their descendants, the 
Pine-Coffins, are in occupation of the old 
estates to-day. 

Nathaniel Coffin, of the American branch, 
was a merchant possessed of some means, and 
Cashier of Customs at Boston, Mass. He took 
the side of the crown during the American 
Revolution, suffered greatly from loss of prop- 
erty, and was never reimbursed. He had four 
sons and several daughters. The eldest son, 
Nathaniel, a successful lawyer, having, with 
his brother next to him in age, assisted in 
cutting down a liberty pole, was obliged to 
seek safety in flight from Boston. The fourth 
son, Isaac, died a British admiral and baronet 
in 1839, at the ripe age of eighty-two years. 

John, the third son of the elder Nathaniel 
and the subject of this sketch, was born in 
Boston in 1756. He took to the sea at an 
early age, and evinced such aptitude for his 
calling that he became a master mariner when 
he was but eighteen years old. In 1775 his 
vessel was employed as a transport, and, having 
on boa,rd the greater part of a regiment and 
also General Howe, reached Boston on the 
15th of June. The troops were landed under 
Bunker Hill; and, the battle bearing that 
name having commenced, the Colonel invited 
the young sailor "to come up and sec the fun." 



He promptly accepted the invitation, and, 
armed with the only available weapon, a tiller, 
soon secured the musket of an American sol- 
dier, whom he had felled to the earth, and 
used it to good effect. Indeed, his courage and 
capacity were so conspicuous on this occasion 
that General Gage, to whom he was presented 
at the close of the action, made him an Ensign 
on the field, and soon after he was promoted 
to a Lieutenancy. He had been promised by 
Sir William Plowe that, if he would go to 
New York and raise four hundred men for the 
royal service, they should be placed under his 
command. He raised and commanded a com- 
pany in the King's Orange Rangers about the 
beginning of the year 1776; and he served in 
this corps until 1778, when he exchanged into 
the New York Volunteers. He took part in 
the battles of Long Island in 1777, of German 
Town and Saint Lucie in 1778, of Briar's 
Creek in 1779, and of Camden in 1780. 
There are no extant details of his exploits in 
these; but in the accounts of the battles of 
Hampton, Hobkirk's Hill, and Eutaw Springs 
in 1 78 1 his heroic conduct is fully recognized 
and described. In his obituary notice in a St. 
John paper it is also stated that he had taken 
part in the battle of Savannah and in the 
action at Cross Creek. Coffin's cavalry, which 
derived its name from him as its leader, was 
generally dreaded and often avoided by the 
revolutionists, and ten thousand dollars was 
offered for the head of the obnoxious officer. 
In 1781, when attempting during war to enjoy 
the delights of love at the home of William 
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was tracked by the enemy, and only avoided 
being captured by concealing himself beneath 
the hoop-skirts of the daughter of his host, 
Miss Anne Matthews, who subsequently be- 
came his wife. On one occasion, when mak- 
ing one of many forays, he visited a house 
where a wedding was about to be held, and, 
having been furnished by the proprietor with 
supplies for his corps, on being invited, re- 
mained for the festivities and danced with the 
bride. At the close of the war he had reached 
no higher rank than that of Major; and it is 
supposed that his promotion was ojDposed in 
consecjuence of his having exposed the coward- 
ice of a natural son of George III., and thereby 
incurred the ill will of that monarch. Lord 
Cornwallis, Lord William Howe, Lord Raw- 
don, and the Marquis of Hastings exerted 
themselves to overcome the obstinacy of the 
king, but to no purpose. 

In May, 17S4, Major Cofifin, with his wife, 
two children, three black men, and one black 
woman, arrived in New Brunswick, and pro- 
ceeded to occupy the property already men- 
tioned, which he named Alwington Manor 
after the family seat in England. Here he 
commenced a career of usefulness which only 
terminated with his life. He was at different 
periods a member of the Assembly and of the 
Legislative Council, superintendent of Lidian 
schools, and chairman of Quarter Sessions. ' 
He imported stock and seeds and improved 
agricultural implements, not only for himself 
and his tenants, but to distribute among his 

^ In the St. John Gazette of April 26, 1799, is the following paragraph : 
" Col. John Coffin, of this Province, is appointed a Brigadier-general to com- 
mand on the Newfoundland Station." 



neighbors. Nor were his benefits limited to 
the Province; for in 1821 the Massachusetts 
Society for Promoting Agriculture thanked 
him for "a fine stud horse of the light-cart 
breed," and made him an honorary member of 
the association. In 1803 Colonel Coffin went 
to England, and was presented at court, where, 
with his handsome face and fine figure, six feet 
two inches in height, he seems to have made 
a favorable impression upon the mind of the 
king.' He was offered, but declined, a regi- 
ment; but in 1 812 he raised and obtained 
command of a body of six hundred men, which, 
under the name of the New Brunswick Fen- 
cibles, served to protect the Province during 
the absence of the One Hundred and Eourth 
Regiment in Upper Canada. Prior to 1829 
he made several visits to England, always re- 
turning to the Province with the spring. He 
had ten children, of whom eight lived to matu- 
rity, his eldest son dying in 1856, a General 
in the Royal Artillery, and two of his sons 
having attained in the Royal Navy, one to the 
rank of Admiral, the other to that of Vice- 
Admiral. 

Sabine, in "Notes on Duels and Duelling," 
states that in a duel between Colonel Campbell, 
of the British service, and Major Coffin, at 
New York, in 1783, the latter was wounded 
in the groin.-' In the same work a cartel from 



- The St. John Gazette oi December lo, 1803, has the following: " Among 
the many military promotions that have lately taken place ni England, we 
are pleased to find the names of Colonels Coffin and Armstrong, both of 
this Province, who are advanced to the rank of Major-general." 

3 On February 25, 1797, a duel was fought near Fredericton between Colonel 
John Coffin and James Gleine, in which the latter was slightly wounded. 
The St. John Gazette^ commenting on the incident, says : " Tlie contending 
parties on this occasion behaved in every point with the strictest honour and 
distinguished themselves as gentlemen and men of valour." 



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the latter forwarded and addressed in 1818 to 
Robert Parker, Comptroller of Customs, St. 
John, N. B. , is set out as follows: — 

Sir, — I have tlie honour to communicate the follow- 
ing note received from your son Nevil last Sunday morn- 
ing. I am not in the habit of entertaining young gentle- 
men at this inconvenient place. But, sir, harboring no 
vindictive resentment against you, and our ages being 
more equal, if you will attend me upon a party of pleas- 
ure to IVEoose Island I shall be very happy to entertain 
you. I regret very much that I cannot offer you a pas- 
sage in the schooner Martin, as she is at present out of 
commission. 

I have the honour to be, sir, with the utmost considera- 
tion, 

Your most ol^edient humble servant, 

John Coffin. 

It is interesting to note that Robert Parker's 
son, to whom the writer of the above refers, 
was the late Hon. Neville Parker, Master of 
the Rolls and brother of the late Chief Justice 
Parker. 

In conclusion, it may be mentioned, as an 
instance of the General's strength and courage, 
that on one occasion, when proceeding in a 
whale-boat to St. John from the manor, with 
his youngest daughter, six or eight years of 
age, and a boatman, he attacked and killed a 
bear which had taken to the river to escape its 
pursuers, the only weapons being an oar and 
the sprit or boom of the sail. 



-AMES ROBINSON, a retired business 
man, who was for many years identified 
with the shipping and banking inter- 
ests of St. John, was born in Queens County, 



New Brunswick, February i, 1830, son of 
Charles and Mary (Lawson) Robinson. His 
father was a native of Queens County, as was 
also his grandfather, Charles Robinson, Sr. , 
and the latter was a son of Patrick Robinson, 
the first of the family to settle in New Bruns- 
wick. 

Patrick Robinson, who was a native of Lon- 
donderry, Ireland, came to America with the 
British army, and served until the close of the 
Revolutionary War. After his regiment was 
disbanded he came witli other soldiers to New 
Brimswick, and settled upon a grant of land in 
Queens County, where he resided until his 
death, which occurred at an advanced age. 
He followed his trade, that of a tailor, for 
many years. He reared a large family. 

Charles Robinson, Sr. , the grandfather, fol- 
lowed general farming in Queens County dur- 
ing his active years, and died at the age of 
eighty-four. He married Mary Sutter, daugh- 
ter of James Sutter, a native of Paisley, Scot- 
land, and a weaver by trade. Their children 
were : James, Thomas, Charles, John, Mar- 
garet, Sarah, Mary, and Rebecca. The grand- 
mother lived to be nearly eighty-six years old. 

Charles, father of James Robinson, settled 
in St. John when a young man, and became 
associated with Messrs. J. and T. Robinson, 
extensive shipowners, and imjjorters of West 
India goods. He married for his first wife 
Mary, daughter of \V'illiam Lawson, a farmer 
of Queens County. She died, leaving two 
sons: James, the subject of this sketch; and 
Hiram. For his second wife he married Eliza 
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Jane, Rebecca, and Charles. Charles Robin- 
son died in March, 1872; and his widow, who 
lived to be ninety-four years old, died in 
Sonierville, Mass., in February, 1899, and is 
buried in Fern Hill Cemetery, St. John, N. B. 

James Robinson grew to manhood and was 
educated in St. John. After leaving school he 
began his business training as a clerk in a 
grocery store, where he remained a year. 
After that for three years he was in the hard- 
ware business, and for the succeeding three 
years he was employed at Harris and Allan's 
foundry. He was for twenty years with D. 
and T. Vaughan, at that time one of the largest 
shipping firms in this city, and the last nine- 
teen years of his business life were spent in 
the Dominion Savings Bank. 

On March 17, 1853, Mr. Robinson married 
Miss Anna Maria Merritt, daughter of Isaac 
and Rebecca (Carpenter) Merritt. Her grand- 
parents were Gilbert and Phoebe (Birdsill) 
Merritt, the former of whom came from Long 
Island, N. Y. , with the Loyalists after the Rev- 
olutionary War, and settled in Hampstead, 
Queens County. Phoebe Birdsill Merritt was 
a daughter of Benjamin Birdsill, whose wife 
lived to bfe ninety-nine years old. The Bird- 
sills came to New Brunswick on board the 
" Mayflower," which arrived here on May 18, 
1783, when Phoebe Merritt was eighty-seven 
years old, and she lived to be ninety-seven. 
The children of Gilbert and Phoebe Birdsill 
Merritt were: Abraham; Caleb; Isaac; 
Robinson; Benjamin; Sarah; Anna; Deborah; 
Phoebe; Elizabeth; and Mary, who is still liv- 
ing. Isaac Merritt, who was a merchant in 



Hampstead and kept a public house there for 
several years, died in 1835, aged thirty-six 
years, leaving an only daughter, who is now 
Mrs. Robinson. His widow married for her 
second husband Daniel Carpenter, by whom 
she had four children — Mary and Sybil (de- 
ceased), Daniel B. , and Kate. Mr. and Mrs. 
Robinson have had two daughters, namely : 
Addie, who married Walter H. Allen, and is 
no longer living; and Maria Helena, wife of 
De B. Carritte, of St. John. They have one 
son, Roy de B. Carritte. They lost one child, 
Marie Elise, aged seven years. 




RTHURI. TRUEMAN, M.A., D.C.L., 
O. C. , Judge of Probate for the city 
and county of St. John, N.B., was 
born at Pointe du Bute, Westmorland County, 
N.B. , on the 19th of July, 1850, a son of 
Joseph and Janet A. (Scott) Trueman. 

His father, Joseph Trueman, a successful 
and well-to-do farmer, was a great-grandson of 
William and Ann (Thompson) Trueman, who 
in 1775 came to Halifax, N.S., from York- 
shire, England, and soon afterward settled in 
Pointe du Bute near the old Fort Beausejour, 
a spot fraught with historical associations of 
the early wars between the English and French 
at the time of the conquest of Acadia by the 
former. Joseph Trueman died in 1899, at the 
age of eighty-one years. His wife was a daugh- 
ter of Adam and Janet (Amos) Scott, who in 
1834 came with their family from Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland, to Quebec, and afterward set- 
tled at Shemogue, in Westmorland County, 



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N.B. Adam Scott died in iSgi, aged ninety- 
eight years; and his wife, Janet Scott, died in 
1884, at the age of ninety. 

Arthur I. Trueman received his preliminary 
education in the common schools and at Am- 
herst Academy, Amherst, N. S. From 1868 
to 1872 he attended Dalhousie College and 
University at Halifax, N. S., completing a 
four years' arts course, and graduating with 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with honors. 
He received the degree of Master of Arts 
from the same college in 187S. After leav- 
ing college he taught for two years under a 
grammar-school license in the public schools 
of the city of Portland, N. B. , and from 
1876 to 1879 held the im|Dortant position of 
superintendent of the public schools in that 
city. Subsequently resigning the position of 
superintendent, Mr. Trueman engaged in the 
study of law in the office of Pugsley, Crawford 
& Pugsley, was admitted an attorney June 17, 

1880, and enrolled as a barrister June 20, 

1 88 1. On his admission as attorney he be- 
came a partner in the firm above mentioned, 
the style of which was then changed to Pugs- 
ley, Crawford, Pugsley & Trueman; and after- 
ward he was a partner with the Hon. William 
Pugsley, under the firm name of Pugsley & 
Trueman. .Since 18S5 Mr. Trueman has prac- 
tised by himself. On April 4, 1883, he was 
appointed reporter of the decisions of the Su- 
preme Court of New Brunswick, and held that 
office until December, 1894. During that 
period he published ten volumes of very valu- 
able reports. In December, 1894, Mr. True- 
man was appointed Judge of Probate for the 



city and county of St. John, which office he 
still holds. In 1899 he was created a Queen's 
Counsel by the Province. In 1890 he received 
the degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws from the 
University of New Brunswick, and in 1895 
that of Doctor of Civil Laws from the same 
un-iversity. He is lecturer on wills and ex- 
ecutors in the Law School in St. John, in 
connection with King's College, Windsor, N. S. 
Judge Trueman has continued to take great 
interest in educational matters in the Province 
and elsewhere. In 1896 he was appointed 
chairman of the Board of School Trustees of 
St. John by the government of New Bruns- 
wick, which position he still holds; and he is 
one of the governors of Dalhousie College and 
University, Halifax, N. S. 

For some years Judge Trueman held a com- 
mission as Captain in the Sixty-second St. 
John Fusiliers. In religion he is a Presby- 
terian, and for several years has been a mem- 
ber and chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
St. Stephen's Church in the city of St. John. 
He was elected an elder in the same church in 
1887. In politics he is a Liberal, and at the 
general election in 1892 was one of the candi- 
dates for the city and county of St. John in 
support of the Provincial government, but was 
defeated. 

An active Free Mason, he has held most of 
the principal offices in the Masonic orders, 
and is now Commander of the New Brunswick 
Sovereign Consistory, thirty-second degree, 
and a member of the Grand Council of the 
Sovereign Great Priory of Canada. 

On the 26th of September, iSSi, Judge 




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Trueman married Margaret E. MacMillan, 
eldest daughter of the Hon. John MacMillan, 
Post-office Inspector for New Brunswick. He 
has six children — John MacMillan, Joseph 
Douglas, Mary Alice, Arthur Harold, Janet 
Agnes Gertrude, and Edith Kathleen. 



/^^Jeorge a. HETHERINGTON, 
V^X M.D., L.M. (Dublin), superintendent 
of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum at St. John, 
was born at Johnston, Queens County, N.B. , 
March 17, 1S5 i, his parents being James Grier- 
son and Mary Jane (Clark) Hetherington. 
His paternal grandfather, who was born in 
England, left his native land about seventy 
years ago to make his home in New Brunswick, 
and, settling in St. John, established there a 
merchant tailoring business, one of the first 
enterprises of its kind in the then young and 
small city. Dr. Hetherington's mother was 
a native of New Brunswick, and came of New 
England Loyalist stock. 

George A. Hetherington, after receiving his 
elementary education in the schools of his 
native town, attended the Normal School 
in St. John, where he was granted a 
teacher's certificate, and afterward taught 
school for a short time. Following that, he 
attended for two years the Baptist Seminary at 
Fredericton. He then spent two years in the 
medical department of the University of 
Michigan, one year of which was employed 
with a special course of study. While prose- 
cuting his studies there, he was appointed 
resident physician of Washtenaw County Asy- 



lum, which position he held for a year, at the 
same time continuing his studies at the uni- 
versity. After completing the prescribed 
course, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in 
the College of Medicine and Surgery and in 
the General Hospital, he came into direct con- 
tact with the practical side of his chosen pro- 
fession, and added largely to his knowledge of 
medicine and surgery. At this college he 
graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1S75, ^""^l i" 
the winter of 1876 took special certificates 
in nervous diseases in New York Polyclinic 
and Post-graduate Medical Schools. Return- 
ing then to New Brunswick, he successfully 
practised his profession for nearly five years. 
At the end of that time, with the view of 
further perfecting himself for his life work, 
he went to Edinburgh, Scotland, and spent 
some time in the Royal Infirmary of that city. 
From Edinburgh he proceeded to Dublin, Ire- 
land, where he took the full qualification from 
the Rotunda Hospital for Women; also a .spe- 
cial course certificate for diseases of women 
and children. After his graduation there he 
was appointed resident instructor and clinical 
clerk, and had charge of the external maternity 
department. At the close of his engagement 
there he returned again to his native land, 
and in 18S2 began the practice of his profes- 
sion in St. John, of which city he is now one 
of the leading physicians. He was granted his 
present appointment by the local government 
in 1896. 

He is a member of the British Medical 
Association, a Life F'ellow of the British 
Gynaecological Society, New Brunswick Medi- 



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cal Society, Maritime Medical Society, and St. 
John Medical Society, and, besides having 
served a number of years on the Public School 
Board of St. John, has held the appointment 
of Coroner in the city and county, also Com- 
missioner of General Public Hospital, and 
Lecturer to School for Nurses. In 1883 he 
was appointed surgeon to the St. John Fire- 
men's Mutual Relief Association. 

Dr. Hetherington is Past Chancellor in 
Knights of Pythias; Past Supreme Vice- 
Ranger, I. O. F. , and Past High Physician of 
same order; also thirty-second degree Mason 
and Noble of Mystic Shrine (Aleppo Temple, 
Boston). Notwithstanding the demand upon 
his time, he has for many years held a com- 
mission and taken an interest in the Sixty- 
second St. John Fusiliers. In 1871 he at- 
tended the military school, Fredericton, and 
was awarded a second-class certificate. Dr. 
Hetherington has travelled extensively on both 
sides of the Atlantic, prosecuting his studies 
as he went, in Canada, LInited States of 
America, in Great Britain and Ireland, and 
in Germany. 

He was married September 5, 1876, to Miss 
Sibyl Mclntyre, of Sussex, N.K 




ARD CHIPMAN' was the son of 
John Chipman, a member of the 
Massachusetts bar, and was born in Boston in 
1753. After graduating at Harvard, he studied 
law, was duly admitted, and practised as a 

* From "The Loyalists and Slavery in New IJrunsvvick," by T. Allen 
Jack, Q.C.t D.C.L., in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 
1898. 



lawyer in Boston until 1776. He was em- 
ployed as secretary of a commission to adjudi- 
cate upon claims for supplies for the crown. 
That he was fairly remunerated for this service 
appears from the following extract from a letter 
to him from Jonathan Sewall, the elder, who 
had ably controverted the political writings of 
James Otis, written at Bristol, England, the 
15th of March, 1780: "Till you become a 
father, my dear Chipman, you will never realize 
the pleasure I received from your account of 
your situation at Mrs. Ogilvie's. Lodging and 
board with a servant and horse at one hundred 
and eighty pounds per annum, and your income 
three hundred pounds per annum — how much 
better this than to visit in England upon one 
hundred pounds ! ' ' When New York was evacu- 
ated, Mr. Chipman went to England, whence, in 
the summer of 1784, he sailed for New Bruns- 
wick, receiving the appointment of Solicitor 
General of that Province and that of Recorder of 
the city of St. John. There is reason to believe 
that he had not then, or perhaps later, learned 
the art of living within his means; and, al- 
though his income at this time appears to have 
been limited to his half-pay — ninety-one 
pounds per annum — before his embarkation 
he expended three pounds, fifteen shillings, 
sixpence upon a dressing-box, sixteen ]30unds 
of French hair powder, and other toilet acces- 
sories. He commenced the practice of law in 
the spring of 1785, his office hours being from 
8 A.M. till 3 p.i\r. Jonathan Sewall, the 
younger, who afterward became Attorney Gen- 
eral and Chief Justice of Lower Canada, 
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and was admitted an attorney from his office. 
Stephen Sewall, brother of the embryo Chief 
Justice, also studied law till he became an 
attorney under the Solicitor General ; and the 
parents of the young men came to reside in St. 
John, where their father died in 1796. In 1785 
Mr. Chipman was selected as one of the govern- 
ment candidates for the city at the first general 
election for the Provincial Legislature, and 
after an exciting and even riotous contest he 
and his fellow-nominees for the city and county 
of St. John were duly returned. 

On the 24th of October, 1786, he married 
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of William 
Hazen, one of the first grantees of St. John 
and in residence there before the landing of 
the Loyalists. Shortly after his marriage Mr. 
Chipman purchased a plot of ground on Union 
Street, at the northerly end of Prince William 
Street, on which he erected a commodious 
house, in which he subsequently resided. This 
building is still standing, and possesses inter- 
est not only as the home of a leading Loyalist 
and his son during their lives, but as the tem- 
porary abiding-place of the Duke of Kent and 
also of the Prince of Wales. Whether Mr. 
Chipman failed in courting popularity or suf- 
fered from suj^i^orting measures not generally 
approved by his constituents is not apparent, 
but at the second general election he was 
returned for Northumberland County instead 
of the city of St. John. He does not appear 
to have had a leaning to political life, 
and in a letter written about this time he 
plainly intimates that he had sought election 
partly from deference to the wishes of his 



friends and partly in the unfulfilled hope that 
he might secure the sjaeakcr's chair. Pie for 
a short time acted as Attorney General, but 
his appointment to the office by the governor 
was not confirmed by the crown. In 1796, 
however, his services and abilities were sub- 
stantially recognized by his being selected as 
agent and counsel for the crown before the 
commission created to determine the true 
boundary between the United States and New 
Brunswick, and was paid nine hundred and 
sixty pounds sterling per annum for his ser- 
vices. As the labors of this commission were 
continued for two years and nine months, and 
he was allowed to draw his half-pay as Deputy 
Muster Master-general during this period, one 
would suppose that he fared better than most 
of his contemporary lawyers in the Province. 
Yet in his letters he complains of poverty, 
although he had managed to increase the area 
of land about his dwelling to such an extent 
that it comprised a substantial block. On the 
other hand, as in 1802, he strongly protested, 
on behalf of himself and his brother practi- 
tioners, against the passage of an act which 
increased the jurisdiction of justices' courts 
from three pounds to five pounds, which de- 
prived lawyers of costs under the scale of the 
Supreme Court where amounts to be collected 
were under the latter sum, it certainly would 
seem that the practice of law in New Bruns- 
wick was not then remunerative. Indeed, 
from a statement in a letter from Mr. Chipman 
in 1808, it appears that his annual income did 
not then exceed two hundred pounds. In 1S06 
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1809, although somewhat disappointed in not 
being appointed Chief Justice, he became a 
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court. It is 
a somewhat striking tribute to his capacity and 
fidelity that he was again in 1S14 employed by 
the crown in the same capacity as before, and 
appeared before the second commission to 
settle the international boundary, under the 
terms of the treaty between Great Britain and 
the United States of America. 

In 1823 Judge Chipman, alleging as reasons 
his age and physical infirmity, applied for 
leave to retire from public service; but before 
any action was taken upon his request an event 
occurred which directly affected his intentions. 

On the 27th of March, in the last-mentioned 
year, Major-general Smyth, Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor of New Brunswick, after a short illness, 
died ; and on the ist of April following a meet- 
ing of the Council was held to consider what 
should be done under the circumstances. The 
rion. George Leonard, the senior member, was 
not present; but a letter from him was read, 
in which he stated that, owing to his age and 
feebleness, he declined to act as administrator. 
The Hon. Christopher Billop, then in his 
eighty-sixth year, the next in seniority, wrote, 
claiming the right, and summoning the mem- 
bers to attend before him at St. John, but 
failed to appear at this meeting, which took 
place at Frederictoii. Those who were pres- 
ent, while not disputing this claim, came to 
the conclusion that it was necessary to act 
promptly, and, with Judge Chipman's concur- 
rence, selected him, as the senior member 
present, to administer the affairs of the Prov- 



ince. A somewhat lively conflict ensued be- 
tween Mr. Billop and the administrator de 
facto, and proclamations were issued by each ; 
but the British government, while acknowledg- 
ing the right of the former, declined to inter 
fere with the action of the Council. 

Mr. President Chipman presided at a session 
of the Legislature, which opened on the 21st 
of January, 1824, when he must have been 
greatly gratified, not only on account of his 
personal honors, but from the fact that his son, 
who subsequently distinguished himself as 
Chief Justice of New Brunswick, was presented 
for approval as speaker of the House of 
Assembly. 

It is not improbable that the mental and 
physical labors of the last year of his life were 
too great for one who really needed rest; but, 
be that as it may, the end came on the 9th of 
February following his happy experience last 
mentioned. 

Judge Chi]Dman possessed an interesting and 
pleasing personality and abundance of natural 
and acquired powers. His abilities were jDer- 
haps greater than his contemporaries always 
perceived, and greater than posterity, specially 
attracted by the attainments of his brilliant son, 
has thought proper, as a rule, to concede. 



]CJUWARD JACK, born at St. Andrews, 
J CL N.B., April 28, 1826, died Decem- 

ber 31, 1895. Edward Jack was the sixth son 
of David William Jack, originally of Cupar- 
Fife, Scotland, later of St. Andrews, by his 
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for many years was Collector of Customs at St. 
Andrews. 

• Edward Jack was educated at St. Andrews, 
but never took a collegiate course. He studied 
law and was admitted an attorney October 14, 
1847, and a barrister June 13, 1850. Being 
an ardent student of nature, he shortly after 
being admitted gave up the practice of law and 
became a civil engineer, and in pursuit of his 
occupation gained an intimate knowledge of 
the unsettled parts of his native Province, its 
woods, streams, and minerals, its animal life 
and its unbounded resources, which knowledge 
he endeavored freely to distribute where it 
might do the most good. His contributions to 
the press were highly esteemed, and if col- 
lected would fill many volumes. The follow- 
ing, among other subjects, were dealt with 
exhaustively by him: forestry in. its various 
branches; the mineral wealth of New Bruns- 
wick, its development and possibilities; the 
protection of our forests and the prevention of 
forest fires; the crown lands; practical chem- 
istry as beneficial to the husbandman ; the wild 
animals of the forest and the game fish, their 
haunts, their habits, and their preservation ; 
local history; the various Indian tribes of 
North America, their origin, folk lore, legends, 
and destiny; our university, and the improve- 
ment of educational facilities; international 
game protection. 

He was the writer of a number of lectures 
on various subjects, among which the follow- 
ing were delivered at the St. John Mechanics' 
Institute, in their regular annual course, at 
the dates named: January 29, 1877, on "The 



River Tobicjue " ; and on December 3, 1883, 
upon "The Interior of New Brunswick; or. 
Five Weeks in the Home of the Moose, Cari- 
bou, Beaver, and Bear." His knowledge of 
woodcraft and forestry were so extensive that 
on many occasions he was employed by wealthy 
corporations and individuals to select tracts of 
timber lands outside the limits of his native 
Province and he travelled for this purpose 
through several of the Southern States of 
America. While so employed he was on one 
occasion offered a remunerative position with 
the Forestry Department at Washington, D. C, 
which offer he declined, as its acceptance in- 
volved a change of his allegiance. In 1884 he 
represented the Province of New Brunswick at 
the Forestry Exhibition at Edinburgh, while 
there acting as juror and receiving as such a 
bronze medal. Besides having made a very 
complete study of forestry, he was well versed 
in mineralogy, geology, chemistry, and botany. 
In languages he was master of Latin, Greek, 
French, and German, and had a lesser knowl- 
edge of Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and the 
languages of the Mic-mac and Maliceet Ind- 
ians. To the native Indian he was ever a kind 
friend and protector. 

Of a warm heart and kindly disposition, he 
always sought to help others, often at the ex- 
pense of his own comfort or future prospects, 
on one occasion resigning a lucrative position 
with the Crown Land Department of New 
Brunswick in favor of a younger brother, who 
was the father of a family and then without 
means of support. In his later years he made 
Fredericton his home, where he lived in com- 



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parative retirement. On taking up a book of 
iiis upon "Berkeley," by A. Campbell Fraser, 
LL. D., shortly after his death, the writer 
found underscored by him the following pas- 
sages, which aptly describe his disposition and 
temperament : — ■ 

"I am not in love with feasts and crowds 
and visits and late hours and strange faces and 
a hurry of affairs, often insignificant. For my 
private satisfaction I had rather be master of 
my own time than wear a diadem. 

"The evening of life I choose to pass in a 
quiet retreat. Ambitious projects, intrigues, 
and quarrels of statesmen are things I have 
formerly been amused with; but now they 
seem to be a vain fugitive dream." 

Mr. Jack was never married. In his later 
years, being a total abstainer, he took a warm 
interest in any legislation having the promo- 
tion of the cause of total abstinence in view. 
For many years prior to and at the time of his 
death he was an Elder of St. Paul's Pre.sby- 
terian Church at Fredericton. A man of pro- 
found religious belief, he met his end calmly 
and fearlessly, going down into the valley of 
the shadow of death in the sure and certain 
hope of a glorious resurrection. 



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ANIEL W. McCORMICK, proprietor 
of the Victoria Hotel, St. John, was 
born in St. Stephen, N. R, Septem- 
ber 4, 1830, son of John and Ann (Trafton) 
McCormick. The father was a native of Glas- 
U'ow, Scotland. When fourteen years old he 
came to New Brunswick, and resided upon 



a farm near St. Stephen with his uncle until 
his uncle's decease. Inheriting his uncle's 
property, he was engaged in general farming 
for the rest of his active years, and also carried 
on lumbering operations upon the St. Croix 
River. He married Ann Trafton, daughter 
of Joseph Trafton, a native of Massachusetts. 
Nine children were born of this union, and 
eight of them grew to maturity, Daniel W. , 
the subject of this sketch, being the eldest son. 
The father died at the age of eighty-four years, 
and the mother at seventy-six. 

Daniel W. McCormick resided at the parental 
home until sixteen years old, when he was 
apprenticed to a millwright, and learned the 
trade. He followed it as a journeyman in 
New Brunswick some six years, at the expira- 
tion of which time he went to Minnesota, and 
was engaged in the same occupation until the 
breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted 
in Company A, Eighth Regiment Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry. After serving one year 
in quelling Indian disturbances upon the fron- 
tier, his regiment joined the Army of tlie Ten- 
nessee. He later went to North Carolina, 
where he remained until a short time previous 
to the close of hostilities, and was present at 
Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Va. , in 1865. 
Returning .shortly to New Brunswick, he re- 
sided upon the home farm about two years, and 
then located in St. Stephen, where for the next 
five years he was engaged in the livery busi- 
ness. Leasing the Watson House, he en- 
tered tlie hotel business, and carried on that 
hostelry until the spring of 1877, when it was 
burned, thus causing him to suffer a severe 




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loss. He subsequently leased the Nehemiah 
Marks property, which he named Queen 
Hotel, and conducted it until the passage of 
the Scott Act in 1879, when he closed the 
house, and, coming to St. John, opened the 
New Victoria Hotel. This property he sold 
some four years later, but, retaining the name, 
applied it to another house on Prince William 
Street; and, disposing of that property, minus 
the name, he in 1887 leased and remodelled 
the Waverley House, which, under the name 
of The Victoria, he has made extremely popu- 
lar with the travelling public. 

In June, 1874, Mr. McCormick was joined 
in marriage with Mrs. Sarah A. Rudge Bart- 
lett, daughter of William Rudge. She was 
born in England, and came to this country 
when eight years old. The children of this 
union are Fannie H. and Nellie R. 

Mr. McCormick belongs to the Masonic 
order. He is vice-president of the St. John 
Exhibition Association, holds the same office 
in the Victuallers' Association, is a treasurer 
of the Tourists' Association, and a member of 
the Horticultural and Park Associations. 




[f^^l'ON. WILLIAM PUGSLEY, D.C.L., 
barrister of St. John, a former 
Speaker of the New Brunswick Leg- 
islature, is a native of this Province. His 
father, William Pugsley, Sr. , was a prosperous 
farmer residing in Sussex, where he owned one 
of the most fertile farms in New Brunswick. 

His first American ancestor on the paternal 
side emigrated from England, and was one of 



the earliest settlers on Croton River, N. Y. 
His great-grandfather, John Pugsley, who was a 
Loyalist, removed to New Brunswick after the 
close of the Revolutionary War, and settled on 
the Hammond River in Kings County. He 
later returned to New York, and subsequently 
went to England. Daniel Pugsley, son of 
John, and father of William, Sr. , settled in 
Cardwell, Kings County. 

William Pugsley, the subject of this sketch, 
began his education in the common schools 
of Sussex, and pursued his college course at 
the University of New Brunswick, where he 
was a highly successful student. He I'e- 
ceived a gold medal during his junior year; 
and the Gilchrist scholarships, which were 
founded by donations of a wealthy and eccen- 
tric Scottish doctor, being thrown open to com- 
petition in the Provinces at this time, he se- 
cured a second place in the list of competitors. 
Pie graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts in 1868. Beginning the study of law 
shortly after his graduation, Mr. Pugsley was 
admitted to the Bar June 27, 1872, and subse- 
quently appointed reporter and editor of the 
decisions of the Supreme Court /;/ banco, 
which position he held for ten years. As a 
lawyer Mr. Pugsley enjoys a large and lucra- 
tive practice. 

In politics he is an Independent. He is 
actively interested in the political affairs of 
the Province, and in July, 1885, was elected 
to the Provincial Assembly, a vacancy having 
been created by the death of Dr. Vail, M. D. 
He at once took a prominent part in the debates 
of the House, and, on March 3, 1887, being 



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considered well versed in parliamentary pro- 
cedure, he was unanimously elected Speaker. 
His wide knowledge of law and acquaintance 
with the personnel of the House, his unfailing 
tact, good judgment, and sureness of decision, 
admirably fitted him for this position, which 
he filled with marked ability and to the satis- 
faction of all parties. He retains his early 
love for scholarly pursuits and associations, 
and received the degree of D. C. L. from the 
University of New Brunswick. 

On January 6, 1876, Dr. Pugsley was united 
in marriage with Miss Fannie Parks, daughter 
of Thomas Parks, deceased, formerly a promi- 
nent merchant of St John. 



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AVID C. DAWSON, superintendent 
of the Second District, Eastern Di- 
vision, of the Western Union Tele- 
graph Company at St. John, was born in 
Gloucester County, New Brunswick, March 10, 
1S50, a son of James and Mary A. (Collins) 
Dawson. His paternal grandfather was Rich- 
ard Dawson, who came to New Brunswick 
from Ireland among the early settlers. Rich- 
ard was a farmer, and he also operated a 
grindstone quarry. He lived to about ninety 
years of age, having been the father of a large 
family. 

James Dawson, born in Gloucester County, 
New Brunswick, in 1S15, was the eldest son 
of his parents. He spent his early life on his 
father's farm, but subsequently learned the 
carpenter's trade, which he followed thereafter 
as his sole occupation. His death occurred in 



1898. His wife, Mary, was the only daughter 
of the late David Collins, of St. John. They 
were the parents of three children, namely : 
David C, the eldest; J. Arthur, who resides 
in St. John ; and Jane, who also is a I'esident 
of St. John. The mother died November 25, 
1877. 

David C. Dawson was reared in his native 
city of St. John, and received his education in 
the public schools. On June 19, 1865, he be- 
gan to work for the American Telegraph Com- 
pany as a messenger, which position he held 
one year. He was then promoted to the posi- 
tion of clerk. About a year later the company 
was merged into the Western Union Telegraph 
Company, and Mr. Dawson was for a time 
clerk of this company in their St. John ofifice. 
Transferred then to the office of the superin- 
tendent, he discharged the duties of chief clerk 
until 1884, when he was given the management 
of the company's office in Halifax, where he 
remained until 1892. Upon the death of Su- 
perintendent R. T. Clinch, Mr. Dawson was 
recalled to St. John and promoted to the posi- 
tion of superintendent, which he still holds. 

He was married in January, 1882, to Frances, 
daughter of the late John Dawson, formerly of 
l^rince Edward Island. Mrs. Frances Dawson 
died in May, 1895. In religion Mr. Dawson 
is a Methodist. 



T^ANON WILLIAM HUBBARD DE 
I J[ VEBER was born in St. John, N.B., 

^ ^ January 23, 1824, the third son and 

fourth child of Leverett H. De Veber. His 




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father, a native of Burton, Sunbury County, 
N.B., born in 1790, was the youngest son of 
Gabriel De Veber, High Sheriff of that 
county. Gabriel and his father, Colonel 
Gabriel De Veber, during the American Rev- 
olution fought for the crown against the re- 
volted colonists. Upon the latter achieving 
their independence, the two De Vebers came 
to New Brunswick with the Loyalists, and 
settled in Sunbury County. Colonel De 
Veber was twice married, the line of descent 
to the subject of this sketch being through his 
first wife, whose maiden name is not now 
known. He lived to the advanced age of 
nearly ninety years. Sheriff Gabriel De 
Veber was granted a large tract of land for 
his services in the army. He married Mar- 
garet Hubbard, whose family were fugitive 
Loyalists from the New England colonies, and 
they were the parents of four children, as fol- 
lows: Gabriel, of whom there is no special 
mention; Nathaniel Hubbard, who was High 
Sheriff of Queens County, and who lived to 
a great age; William Edwin Nelson, who for 
many years was a prosperous merchant and 
ship-owner of St. John; and Leverett Hubbard, 
father of William H. De Veber. 

Leverett Hubbard De Veber at the age of 
fifteen years went to St. John, where he be- 
came clerk for a Mr. James Codner, a wine 
merchant, and was subsequently in business 
for himself with Richard Sands. Later he 
severed his connection with the latter gentle- 
man, and conducted a mercantile and banking 
business for many years, at first alone and 
subsequently being associated with his sons, 



who succeeded him in the business. He mar- 
ried May 14, 18 1 8, Margaret Ann, a daughter 
of William Hubbard, Esq., of Burton, and 
their children were as follows: Richard S. , 
born February 26, 18 19, a successor of his 
father to the lattcr's business, who died in 
May, 1888; Nelson, born in November, 1821, 
a barrister of St. John, who died in 1854; 
Gabriella, who became the wife of Gabriel De 
Veber, son of the Sheriff of Queens County 
and a barrister of Gagetown; William Hub- 
bard, whose name begins this article; 
Leverett Hubbard, born in November, 1825, 
at one time a farmer, who went to Australia, 
but who, subsequently returning, spent the 
rest of his life in his father's office; George 
Canning, born in 1827, who was educated at 
King's College, Fredericton, took part in the 
Crimean War, studied medicine in Scotland, 
and returning to St. John entered his father's 
office, where he remained until his death; J. S. 
Boies, born in 1829, who was a merchant, a 
member of the firm of De Veber & Sons and 
a member of the Dominion Parliament; Mary 
Boies, born in 1831, who is the widow of R. P. 
Starr; Dudley Woodbridge, who died in in- 
fancy in 1833; and Nathaniel Clarke, who 
also died in infancy. The father of these chil- 
dren, Leverett H. De Veber, was a magistrate 
for many years. He was church warden of 
Trinity Church, afterward St. John's (Stone) 
Church. His death occurred February 12, 
1876. His wife died in November, 1866. 

William Hubbard De Veber obtained his 
elementary education in the grammar school 
conducted by James Patterson, LL.D. In 



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June, 1839, he matriculated at King's College, 
Fredericton, where after the regular course 
of four years' study he took his degree in 
June, 1843. Then, returning to St. John, he 
was there licensed as lay reader by the 
Rev. Archdeacon Costor, Ecclesiastical Com- 
missary, and assigned to the parish of 
Simonds under Canon Harrison, where he 
remained two years, or until the arrival of 
Bishop Medley in June, 1845, when the late 
James Disbrow was appointed as rector. He 
was ordained Deacon by Bishop Medley in 
St, Ann's Chapel, Fredericton, May 30, 
1847. On September 24, 1848, he was 
ordained priest and soon after appointed mis- 
sionary at Upbam, Kings County, and St. 
Martins. He performed arduous service in 
this capacity for eleven years or until Sep- 
tember, 1859. Then, at the request of the 
parishioners of St. Paul's Church, Portland, 
he was appointed rector of that parish by the 
bishop, his predecessor having been the Rev. 
Dr. Lee, subsequently rector at Fredericton. 
The church at St. Paul's had been erected 
some years previously, and endowed by the 
late Chief Justice Chipman. In 1S68 the 
church, which had been in use until that date, 
was abandoned, and the school-house was 
licensed, the regular services of the parish 
being continued there until August, 1871. 
During this time the present church was 
erected, and consecrated August 16, 1871, by 
Bishop Medley, there being present at the 
consecration nearly all the clergy of the diocese 
and many from Nova Scotia and from the 
United States. On the day of the consecra- 



tion Bishop Medley appointed him a canon of 
Christ's Church Cathedral, Fredericton, and 
he remained there until his retirement on ac- 
count of ill health in October, 1893, after a 
period of service of thirty-four years. 

Canon De Veber was married September 
26, 1854, to Miss Mary E. Paddock, a daugh- 
ter of the late Dr. Thomas Paddock, of St. 
John. Her father was a son of Dr. Adino 
Paddock, who came to New Brunswick with 
the Loyalists; and her mother was in maiden- 
hood a Miss McLellan, of Portland, Me. Of 
this union there were five children, of whom 
three are now deceased, namely: Arthur W., 
born June 24, 1856, who died in May, i860; 
Herbert, born in 1859, ^'^"^^ O"^' '^he young- 
est, who died in infancy. The two living 
are: William Herbert and Alleyne Wood- 
bridge, the latter born December 19, 1865. 
William Herbert De Veber, who was born 
August 27, 1862, married Harriet M., daugh- 
ter of the Rev. Richard Mathers, of the 
Wiggins Orphan Institution, and has two chil- 
dren — Herbert Alleyne and Doris. He re- 
sides at Lower Woodstock. 




HARLES F. KINNEAR, a retired 
merchant of St. John, N. B., was born 
in that cit}', March 31, 1830, son 
of Harrison G. and Maria Kinnear. His 
father was born in New Brunswick, Septem- 
ber, 1798, and his mother was born in West- 
morland County, New Brunswick, in 1803. 
His paternal grandfather, Andrew Kinnear, 
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rrovincc, toward the end of the last century. 
He reared a large famil3% Harrison G. , above 
mentioned, being the youngest son. 

Harrison G. Kinnear came to St. John in 
1829, and was engaged in mercantile business 
here for the rest of his life, which terminated 
in 1850. He was the father of nine chil- 
dren, namely: B. Boyd, born in 1S22, who 
died in 1866; Anna M., born in 1S23, who 
died in 1893; Helen E., born in 1826, who 
died in 1897; John H., born in 1828, who 
died in 1892; Charles F. the subject of this 
sketch; Emily I. and Isabella E., twins, born 
in 1S32, who are still living; Mary L., born 
in 1837, who died in 1844; and another son 
who died in infancy. Mrs. Kinnear died in 
1887. 

Charles F. Kinnear was educated in St. 
John. His early business training was ob- 
tained in his father's store, and in 1849 he 
entered the employ of another merchant, with 
whom he remained eight years. Starting in 
business for himself in 1858, and joining his 
brother, John H., in i860, he conducted with 
him a profitable mercantile enterprise for many 
years, or until his retirement in 1890. 

In 1859 Mr. Kinnear was married to Mar- 
garet M. Lansdowne, a native of St. John, 
daughter of Thomas Lansdowne, who was at 
one time Sheriff of Kent County, New Bruns- 
wick. Their children are: Margaret . M. ; 
Eliza E. , wife of the Rev. Edwin Daniel, of 
Port Hope, Ont. ; Harrison, a resident of St. 
John; Charles A., who resides in London, 
Ont.; and Frank A., of this city. 

As a business man Mr. Kinnear gained the 



confidence of his associates by his strict ad- 
herence to upright principles, and as a citizen 
he is highly esteemed for his many commend- 
able qualities. He belongs to the Church of 
England, and has served as warden, vestry- 
man, and superintendent of the Sunday-schools 
of St. John's and Trinity Churches. 




HOMAS WILLIAM ROBINSON, 
dif warehouseman, St. John, was born in 
this city, January 12, 1843, son of James S. 
and Elizabeth (Merritt) Robinson. He is a 
great-grandson of Patrick Robinson, the 
founder of the family in New Brunswick, who 
was born in Londonderry, Ireland, came to 
America with the British army, and served in 
the Revolutionary War. In 17S3 Patrick 
Robinson came to New Brunswick with the 
Loyalists, residing at Parrtovvn, now St. 
John, for a short time, and moving from there 
to Queens County. He was a tailor, and fol- 
lowed his trade during the active period of his 
life. He and his wife, Sarah, reared a family 
of seven children, three sons and four daugh- 
ters, namely: Charles; James; William; 
Sarah; Rebecca, who became Mrs. Humes; 
Mrs. Alger; and Mrs. Albright. 

Charles Robinson, the next in the ancestral 
line, a farmer by occupation, was a native of 
Queens County. He married, June 2, 1802, 
Mary Sutter, who was born on Staten Island, 
September 10, 1782, daughter of James Sutter, 
a Scotchman, who came to New Brunswick 
with the Loyalists. Eight children were the 
fruit of this union : namely, James S. , Thomas, 



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Charles, John, Margaret, Mary, Sarah, and 
Rebecca. Margaret married George Corey, 
Mary became the wife of Thomas Mason, 
Sarah married Coles Carpenter, and Rebecca 
died young. Charles Robinson was born No- 
vember 13, 1780. He died November 17, 
1864, at the age of eighty-four years. The 
wife, Mary Sutter Robinson, died March i, 
1868, in her eighty-sixth year. 

James Sutter Robinson, son of Charles and 
father of Thomas W. , was born in Queens 
County. When a young man he left the home 
farm, and after trading on the river for a time 
came to St. John, where, with his brother 
Thomas, he established a mercantile business 
on South Wharf, subsequently moving from 
there to North Slip. They were among the 
largest dealers in West India goods in the 
Province, and were also prominently identified 
with the shipping interests. In 1828 he mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Merritt, daughter of Gil- 
bert Robinson Merritt. They had a family of 
nine children: Charles C, Gilbert M., John 
J., James L., Thomas William, Robert S., 
Mary, Elizabeth, and one daughter who died 
in infancy. Charles C. Robinson, who was a 
sea captain, married Sarah A. Fairweather, 
and died in 1868, leaving eight children. 
Gilbert M., an accountant, married Lucy 
\V. A. Aymar, and had two children. He 
died in 1866. John J. was a seafaring man, 
and died in 1862. James L. married Eliza- 
beth Curran, and resides in Boston. Robert 
S. was born August 29, 1845, and is now asso- 
ciated with his brother in busines.s. Mary E., 
who was born in 1838, resides in this city; 



and Elizabeth died at the age of eighteen. 
The father died in 1872. The mother died 
January 9, 1889, at the age of eighty-two 
years. Thomas W. Robinson was educated in 
the public schools of St. John. After the 
death of his father he engaged in the ware- 
house business, in which he has continued ever 
since. 

November 19, 1S66, Mr. Robinson was 
joined in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Estey, 
daughter of Samuel B. Estey, of St. John. 
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had ten children, 
and have been bereft of four — Thomas, Frank, 
Mabel, and an infant. The six now living 
are: Edith, Gilbert M., Letitia, Elizabeth, 
Ethel, and Jennie. 



T^HARLES MILLER, lime and lumber 
I jT manufacturer, St. John, N. B. , was 






born in Hollis, York County, Me., 



April 14, 1858, son of Henry Usher and 
Sarah Elizabeth (Berry) Miller. His paternal 
grandparents were Nathaniel and Mary (Wood- 
man) Miller, the former of whom was a pros- 
perous lumberman of Hollis, and the maternal 
grandfather was Colonel Josiah Berry, of Bux- 
ton, Me. 

When a young man Henry Usher Miller 
assisted his father in carrying on lumbering 
operations. Soon after his majority he went to 
Ellsworth, Me., where he was for a time asso- 
ciated with his brother, Nathaniel J., in the 
same business; and he was later in partnership 
with George Gray in lumbering at Chamcook. 
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with C. F. Woodman, established the well- 
known firm of Miller & Woodman, with which 
he was associated for the rest of his life. He 
died May 15, 1897. He married in 1848 
Sarah Elizabeth Berry. They had three sons, 
namely: James; Charles, the subject of this 
sketch; and Harry. 

Charles Miller was nine years old when his 
parents removed to St. John. After acquiring 
his elementary education he attended the acad- 
emy in Sackville, N.B., and his studies were 
completed in Fredericton. His first industrial 
undertaking was the establishment of the lime 
burning business, which he is still carrying on. 
In i8gi he engaged in sawing shingles, and 
since 1894 he has manufactured all kinds of 
domestic lumber on quite a large scale. His 
business ability is extremely beneficial to the 
city, and personally he is highly esteemed for 
his upright character. 

In 1883 Mr. Miller was united in marriage 
with Miss Helen Tapley, daughter of Archi- 
bald Tapley, of Indiantown, and a representa- 
tive of a highly reputable family, whose an- 
cestors were Loyalists. Mr. and Mrs. Miller 
have three sons — -Henry Usher, George T., 
and Frank L. Miller. 




kORTHRUP. The numerous branches 
of this family in New Brunswick are 
all descendants of Joseph Northrup, 
who was one of the first settlers of Milford, 
Conn., in 1639, coming probably from York- 
shire, England. 

Joseph Northrup (first), married Mary, 



daughter of P"rancis Norton, Jr. In January, 
1642, he united with the Inrst Church in Mil- 
ford. At his death, September 11, i66g, he 
left eight children, four of whom were sons, 
named respectively Samuel, Jeremiah, John, 
and Joseph. 

The youngest son, Joseph (second), baptized 
August 9, 1649, died in 1700, leaving four 
children. His wife's name is not known. 

Joseph (third), eldest son of Joseph above 
mentioned, was baptized in October, 1689. 
He settled in Ridgefield, Conn. He married 
Susannah Roberts, November 20, 171 3, had a 
family of seven children, and died at the age 
of eighty-four years in 1773. 

His third child, Eli, was born May i, 1718. 
His wife, Abigail, whom he married on Janu- 
ary 3, 1739, bore him si.x children. 

Benajah, fifth child of Eli and Abigail 
Northrup, was born March 27, 1752. Fle mar- 
ried Sarah Keeler. Accompanied by his family, 
he moved to New Brunswick in 1783 with the 
Loyalists, of whom he was one. He settled in 
Maugerville, Sunbury County, on the St. John 
River. The high freshets the next spring 
caused them to remove to the hills at Kings- 
ton, Kings County, where he secured lot num- 
ber six, fronting on Kingston Creek (then 
called Portage Cove). His first wife, Sarah, 
died July 17, 181 2, and he was married again 
on February 24, 1814, to Rachel Fowler. On 
May 17, 1838, he died at the age of eighty-six 
years, leaving fourteen children, one hundred 
and eighteen grandchildren, and one hundred 
and eleven great-grandchildren. His sons 
were: Zadock, Gamaliel, William, first, Will- 



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iam, second, John A., Eli, Benjamin K. , 
James Sturges, and David. 

His eighth son, James Sturges Northrup, 
was born at Kingston, September i, 1795. 
Remarried Susanna Cox on Januarys, 181 8. 
He lived on the homestead, and died Novem- 
ber 25, 1865, at the age of seventy, leaving 
ten children. The sons were: Eli S., James 
E., Daniel D., Philo A., Walter W., Harvey 
H., William 15. These sons all married, 
and each had a family. 

Daniel D. Northrup, fourth son of James 
S. and Susanna Northrup, was born August 30, 
1827. He married Hannah S. Whiting (of 
Loyalist descent) on January 8, 1852. They 
are both living at this date, and also nine of 
their children, who numbered eleven in all. 
The sons were Herbert E. W. , Charles E., 
Isaac H., Horace E. 

Herbert E. W. Northrup, eldest son of 
Daniel D. and Hannah S. Northrup, was born 
August 23, 1855, in Kingston, Kings County. 
In 187S he removed to St. John, N. B., and 
engaged in the grocery business on South 
Wharf. He died June 18, 1894. 

Isaac H., the third son of Daniel D. and 
Hannah S. Northrup, went to St. John, N. B., 
from Kingston, Kings County, in 1883, and 
engaged as clerk with his brother, Herbert 
E. W. In 1893 he succeeded him in the gro- 
cery business on South Wharf. He has built 
up a trade of large and constantly increasing 
magnitude by industry, integrity, a thorough 
knowledge of the requirements of the markets, 
and by giving his personal attention to every 
branch of his business in its minutest details. 



No one questions but that his future will be 
not only successful but creditable to himself 
and the city. 




rB lAJOR JOHN WARD was born in 
Peekskil], Westchester County, 
N.Y. , in 1752. He was fourth 
in descent from Andrew, fifth son of Richard 
Ward, of Gorleston, Suffolk, England, who 
came to America in 1632. Major Ward's 
father owned an extensive property on the 
Hudson River. He was a stanch adherent 
of the crown during the Revolutionary War, 
but was precluded by age from taking an active 
part therein. 

On the outbreak of hostilities John Ward 
and three brothers — Moses, Benjamin, and 
William — joined the "Loyal American Regi- 
ment," John with the rank of Lieutenant, 
Moses with that of Ensign, and William as a 
private. During the war John was frequcntl}' 
in action, and on one occasion, when storming 
the American entrenchments, was severely 
wounded. 

He had a friendly intimacy with the unfort- 
unate Major Andre; and, when Andre went 
up the Hudson in the "Vulture," sloop of war, 
on his ill-fated mission to General Benedict 
Arnold, Lieutenant \Vard was in command of 
the escort that accompanied him. 

At the conclusion of the war he came to 
Parrtown, now St. John, N.B., in charge of 
the rear guard of the regiment and the women 
and children, with the brc\-ct rank of Major. 
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Cove; and, no accommodations being provided 
for them in the way of buildings, they passed 
the winter in canvas tents, thatched with 
spruce boughs. The winter was rigorous; 
and, owing to want of proper shelter and proper 
food and clothing, many men, sick and debili- 
tated from wounds, and many women and chil- 
dren died. Major Ward's son, John Ward, 
Jr., was born in a tent on the iSth of Decem- 
ber, 1783. 

Major Ward removed to Sussex Valley in 
the spring of 1784, and settled at Ward's 
Creek, which was named after him; but he 
remained only a short time, returning to St. 
John in 1785. His brother Moses, who was 
in England, came to St. John; and they en- 
tered into a business partnership. They were 
pioneers in the 'West India trade, which 
brought so much prosperity to St. John in the 
early days of the city. Moses returned to the 
States; and the Major associated with himself 
his sons, Caleb, John Ward, Jr., and Charles, 
under the firm name of John Ward & Sons, 
long and honorably known in St. John. 

With the Hon. Hugh Johnston, he put the 
first steamboat on the St. John River, the 
"General Smyth," this being the original 
steamboat to make the trip to Fredericton, 
May 10, 18 1 6. She was followed by the 
"John Ward" and "St. George." Major 
Ward retained his interest in military matters, 
and until his resignation in 1816 was in sole 
command of the St. John city and county 
militia. 

In 1809, 1816, and 18 19, he represented 
the county of St. John in the House of Assem- 



bly; and his name stood first in the commis- 
sion of the peace for the city and county. 

He was married in Peekskill early in life 
to Elizabeth Strang, who was fourth in descent 
from Daniel Strang and Charlotte Hubert, his 
wife, who came to America from Havre, 
France, in 1680. His family consisted of 
four sons — Caleb, John, William, and Charles 
— and two daughters' — ^ Eliza and Esther. 
Eliza was married to Barton Poulett Wallop, 
son of the Hon. and Rev. Barton Wallop and 
grandson of the Earl of Portsmouth. Esther 
died unmarried. 

The following estimate of Major Wai'd's 
character, contained in a letter written to him 
by so distinguished a man as Sir Howard 
Douglas, will be a fitting close of this brief 
account of his long and eventful career: — ■ 

15 Green Street, London, 

June 29, 1S42. 

My dear Sir, — Observing with great pleasure your 
respected name at the head of signatures attached to 
the very gratifying address which 1 lately had the honor 
to receive from the city of St. John . . . 

I address you, my dear Sir, individually as the Father 
of the interesting, important, and loyal Province with 
which it was my happiness to be long intimately con- 
nected and in which I shall feel ever deeply interested. 
Well may I express these sentiments to you, for you are 
a personification of that staunch loyalty which has ever 
distinguished New Brunswick, a successful prosecutor 
of that industry and those commercial pursuits which 
have formed New Brunswick to an improved condi- 
tion . . . 

And with greatest respect for you personally, my dear 
Sir, and for your character, I may most safely and 
appropriately embody in this letter all I would say of 
respect and attachment to those whose names are asso- 



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ciated with yours in the address which conveys to me 
and mine the very agreeable assurances that you and 
those whom we so faithfully recollect do not forget us. 
Believe me, my dear Sir, 

Yours most sincerely, 

Howard Douglas. 

Major Ward died at his residence, corner of 
King and Germain Streets, November 5, 1846, 
in tlie ninety-foiirtli year of his age. The 
following is the conclusion of an obituary 
notice published at the time: — 

"Thus, full of years and honors, has de- 
parted one who has led an unblemished life, 
and who carries with him to the grave the 
highest esteem and most profound respect of 
the community, to whom his noble and vener- 
able appearance, his strict integrity, and ami- 
able disposition have been long familiar." 



(sffOI-IN S. CLIMO, a retired business 
man of St. John, was born in Helston, 
Cornwall, England, July 14, 1833, son 
of John Saunders and Amelia Climo. He 
served an apprenticeship of seven years at the 
printer's trade in Penzance, later became fore- 
man of the office, and subsequently was em- 
ployed for a short time on the Morning Post, 
London. In 1863 he emigrated to America, 
and, settling in St. John, entered the employ 
of J. & A. McMillan, with whom he re- 
mained four years. At the expiration of that 
time he established himself in the photograph 
business, wliich he carried on with prosperous 
results for thirty-one years, when he retired 
and was succeeded by his son. He had learned 



daguerreotyping as an amateur in the old 
country, and through his own personal efforts 
became unusually skilful during the long 
period he was in business in this city. He is 
also an artist of ability in landscape painting, 
and was when he retired proprietor of the lead- 
ing art gallery in St. John. 

In 1854 Mr. Climo was joined in marriage 
with Miss Mary Ann Daniel, daughter of Cap- 
tain Daniel, of Ding Dong Mine, Cornwall. 
They have had seven children — Clara, Ada, 
Harold, Cora, Kelsie, Cliarles Howard, and 
Lillie. Clara is the widow of Warren Ange- 
vine and has four children. Ada married 
Alexander Robinson, of St. John, now of Van- 
couver, and has three sons. Harold, who suc- 
ceeded his father in business, married Ellen 
Travis and has two sons and four daughters. 
Cora is the wife of George Travis, also of 
Vancouver, and has one son and one daughter. 
Kelsie married Frank Alward, of this city, 
and has one daughter. Charles Howard Climo 
learned photography with his father, and is 
now in the business in Halifax, N. S. He mar- 
ried Daisy Hannay, of St. John, and has one 
child. Lillie married Otto Reineke, of St. 
John. 

Mr. Climo was formerly connected with the 
Independent Order of Odd F'ellows. He is 
a member of the Church of England. Politi- 
cally, he is a Liberal ; and he has written 
many able articles in favor of his party. He is 
also the author of jjoems which, as printed in 
the local press of St. John, have been much ad- 
mired for their versatilit)- and s}'mpathetic vein. 

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a photographer solely to the improved light- 
ing of his portraits, which he has reduced to 
a science, being, as he claims, entirely original 
in his theory and practice of so placing his 
subject that no false lights ai-e allowed to mix 
with and disfigure the proper shadows of a 
picture. Noticing the failure in this respect 
of artists who use a top light only, and of 
otiiers who used a side light, but rarely placed 
the subject in the best position as regards light 
and shade, he developed a system which closely 
follows the method of the sun in lighting 
nature, and thus secures perfect likenesses. 



(s^ OHN C. FERGUSON, excise officer and 
food inspector, St. John, was born in 
Portland, N.B., May 4, 1842, son of 
Philip and Catherine (McKenna) Ferguson. 
His father was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1812; 
and his grandfather, Patrick Charles Ferguson, 
was the son of a Scotchman, who held a com- 
mission in the British army. Patrick Charles 
Ferguson came to New Brunswick when his 
son Philip was a child, and here followed his 
profession of civil engineer for the rest of his 
life. He was drowned while surveying land 
bordering upon the river. 

Philip Ferguson, John C. P^erguson's father, 
was brought up in St. John. When a young 
man he engaged in the lumber trade, and in 
connection with that employment he carried on 
the shipping business until his death, which 
occurred in 1858. He was active in his en- 
deavors to improve the moral atmosphere of the 
community, and took a special interest in the 



temperance cause. His wife, Catherine, who 
was born in Truagh, county Monaghan, Ire- 
land, daughter of Terence McKenna, came to 
this country at the age of sixteen years to live 
with an aunt. She became the mother of five 
children; namely, John C, Philip, Agnes, 
Annie R., and Mar}'. John C. is the subject 
of this sketch. Plis personal history is given 
below. Philip is a sea captain. Agnes mar- 
ried James Gerow, of St. John, and Mary died 
at the age of about four years. Mrs. Catherine 
Ferguson died in 1896, aged eighty-two years. 
John C. Ferguson went to live in the coun- 
try when he was a year old, and remained 
there about seven years. His education was 
acquired under the direction of Messrs. Egan, 
Campbell, and Duval. When thirteen years 
old he began to serve an apprenticeshijj of five 
years at the carriage painter's trade, which he 
followed for ten years, first with Crothers, 
Price, & Shaw, and later with Price & 
Shaw. Going into mercantile business on 
South Wharf in 1867, he was subsequently as- 
sociated with James E. Masters, and lost 
heavily in the conflagration of 1877. He 
afterward conducted business alone until 1885, 
when he made a tour of the Western States and 
visited many of the large cities. In 1887 he 
accepted an appointment in the government ser- 
vice as assistant to John N. Moore. He was 
later transferred to his present department and 
advanced to the position of excise officer and 
food inspector. In 1872 he was a member of a 
delegation sent to Ottawa for the purpose of ad- 
justing some important railroad matters, and 
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He served as an Alderman from 1S71 to 1878, 
and as Deputy-Mayor for two years. 

. . . Mr. Ferguson was connected with the 
volunteer movement at its inceiDtion. He 
served for a time as a member of the Prince of 
Wales Battery of Artillery in St. John. He also 
gave attention to literary matters, contributing 
to periodicals and acquiring considerable repu- 
tation as a lecturer, having occupied the plat- 
form in various cities in the Maritime Provinces 
dealing with Irish, I'rench, and other historical 
subjects. 

During the days of wooden ships Mr. Fer- 
guson invested largely in that class of property, 
having, with others, built various kinds of 
vessels in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 

Mr. Ferguson is actively interested in vari- 
ous social and charitable organizations, having 
been treasurer of the Irish Friendly Society 
for ten years, and president of the county 
organization of the Ancient Order of Hiber- 
nians. He is also a member of the Irish 
Literary and Benevolent Society, and was for 
a number of years vice-president of the St. 
Malacbi Total Abstinence Society. 



JTEPHEN B. BUSTIN,* barrister, of 
St. John, was born in that city, De- 
cember 26, 1862, son of Thomas and 
Georgianna (Thompson) Bust in. It is said 
that his paternal ancestors were Normans, and 
entered luigland in the train of William the 
Conqueror, some settling in the north and 
some in the southern part of the country. 

Among the earliest progenitors of the family 



in America was Thomas Bustin, who was born 
in North Carolina in 1743. He had a brother 
whose given name is not now known, who re- 
sided in Virginia both before and after the 
Revolutionary War. Thomas Bustin served an 
apprenticeship to his step-brother, Christopher 
Bird, a builder of New York. In his early 
youth he owned a slave left to him by his 
father. The slave, who was very fond of his 
little master, and was hired out for his benefit, 
was accidentally drowned. Shortly after the 
beginning of hostilities in the Revolutionary 
War, Thomas Bustin joined the royal army in 
New York under General Burgoyne. On one 
occasion, while he was in the general's tent, 
a shell came through the canvas. He was 
considerably frightened ; but, the fuse going 
out, the general laughingly said, "We will 
take him prisoner." While in New York Mr. 
]5ustin boarded with a Mr. Kelly. On July 
17, 1783, after the fortune of war had declared 
in favor of the Americans, Mr. Bustin, accom- 
panied by Mr. Kelly, left for St. John, N. B., 
coming in the second convoy fleet in a ship 
named " The Sovereign," commanded by Cap- 
tain Murray. He subsequently boarded at Mr. 
Kelly's house, a log house on the south-east 
corner of Princess and Charlotte Streets, St. 
John, until his marriage, September 16, 1785. 
Mr. Bustin built himself a small house on 
Charlotte Street, on a lot below what is now 
called Bustin's Corner. This lot he left at 
his death to his son James. The original 
house was destroyed in the great fire of June 
20, 1877. Mr. Bustin lived to the advanced 
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dying" at the venerable age of ninety-five years, 
at the house of their daughter, Mrs. John 
Humbert, on the east side of King Square. 
Previous to his death they resided for some 
years with their son Samuel, in a house on 
Princess Street, on .the lot where now stands 
the residence of Dr. Thomas Walker. Their 
children were eight in number, seven being- 
sons; namely, William H., Thomas, George, 
Benjamin, Jacob, Samuel, James, and Rebecca. 

Thomas Bustin, Jr., married Elinor Munroe 
and had six children: Margaret, still living in 
1899, who married John Hunter; John; 
George; William; Elizabeth, who married 
Captain William Thomas; and Thomas. 
George Bustin married a Miss Mary Venning. 
Benjamin Bustin died in New York, and is 
supposed to have been poisoned. John Bustin 
went to the United States, where he married. 
Samuel Bustin married Margaret Nalon, and 
they left no children. James Bustin married 
Mary Ann Brent, step-daughter of Mr. Lamb. 
Rebecca Bustin became the wife of John Hum- 
bert, and like her mother attained the age of 
ninety-five years. 

William H. Bustin, the son who is the next 
in line of descent to the direct suljject of this 
sketch, married Agnes Wilson, daughter of 
George Wilson, a native of the Highlands of 
Scotland. They were bereft of two boys, who 
died when very young, and they brought up 
eight sons and two daughters ; namely, Jane, 
Benjamin, William Hermon, George E., Sam- 
uel J., Hugh, Rebecca, Thomas, Charles, and 
Robert. The survivors of the family in 1899 
are: William H., now in his eighty-sixth year 



and a resident of Watertown, Mass. ; Hugh, 
now in his seventy-ninth yeai", a resident of 
St. John; Rebecca, now in her seventy-fourth 
year, a resident of St. John; Thomas, now in 
his seventy-third year, who resides in St. 
John; Charles H., now in his seventy-second 
year, and Robert, now in his sixty-fifth year, 
who also reside in St. John. 

Thomas Bustin, son of William H. and 
Agnes Bustin, was born in St. John, N. B., 
March 17, 1826. Conunencing in early youth, 
he worked eight years in S. K. Foster's shoe 
store. Subsequently he went to the United 
States, and was employed in the harness shop of 
his brother, W. H. Bustin, in Boston for seven 
years. Returning to St. John, he started in 
the provision business, but in 1854 was seized 
by the cholera, which swept over St. John in 
June of that year. After a year's sickness he 
went to sea with his brother, Captain B. B. 
Bustin, remaining with him four years, during 
which time he visited Liverpool, London, 
Jamaica, Australia, St. Helena, Madras, and 
Calcutta. Upon his return home he opened 
a grocery store, and after selling out this busi- 
ness he was employed for some time in the 
Stephen Brundage & Lordly furniture store. 
In 1866 he accepted a position in the custom- 
house at St. John. He was Alderman for the 
city of St. John for the years 1865 and 1866. 
He is a Mason and a member of the Sons of 
Temperance. He is also connected by mem- 
bership with the Methodist church. On March 
13, 1862, he married Georgianna Thompson, 
daughter of Michael Thompson, the ceremony 
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has had eight children, all born in St. John 
and all living save one. Their record is 
briefly as follows: Stephen Blizard, born De- 
cember 26, 1862; Ena Louise, born February 

14, 1865; Charlotte Isabelle, born December 
13, 1868, who married Norman Hutchinson; 
Thomas Howard, born November i, 1870, who 
died of diphtheria in 1878; Caroline Creigh- 
ton, born February 25, 1874; Hester Zaidee, 
born May 6, 1883; and Gladys, born January 

15, 1887. 

Stephen Blizard Bustin, the eldest son of 
Thomas, studied law two years with C. A. 
Stockton, but was compelled to abandon his 
studies on account of ill health. He then 
worked a year for R. P. McGivern, coal mer- 
chant, and subsequently for a similar length of 
time in the office of the Daily Sun. Seeking 
to recover his health, he went to sea for two 
years in the vessels of an uncle, P. R. Creigh- 
ton, during which time he touched at Balti- 
more, Rotterdam, New York, Liverpool, Rio 
de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Amsterdam. 
Upon returning to St. John he studied law for 
one year in the office of E. T. C. Knowles, 
Esq., and subsequently for one year with Dr. 
A. A. Stockton and for two years with Dr. S. 
Alward. He was admitted as an attorney-at- 
law for New Brunswick in 1888, and at once 
opened an office in St. John. He was admitted 
as barrister-at-law in 1889. On May i, 1895, 
he took into copartnership J. Josejih Porter, 
barrister-at-law, under the firm name of Bustin 
& Porter; and the firm now has an excellent 
clientage. 

Mr. Bustin was married June 30, 1893, to 



Miss Charlotte L. Barlow, daughter of Thomas 
H. Barlow, builder. They have two children: 
a daughter, Frances, born May 10, 1894; and 
a son, born July i, i8g8, named Howard Bar- 
low. Mr. Bustin is identified by membership 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
the Orangemen, Clan Mackenzie, Canadian 
Order of Foresters, the Natural History So- 
ciety, and the Neptune Rowing Club. In 
religion he is a Methodist. 




DWARD WILLIS, a former Postmaster 
of St. John, N.B. , was born Novem- 
ber 5, 1835, at Halifax, N.S., his parents 
being John and Dorothy (Le Roi) Willis. In 
the national and grammar schools of Halifax 
he acquired the rudiments of knowledge which 
he largely supplemented by private stud}'. 
The greater part of his life was spent in the 
newspaper business, at which he was very suc- 
cessful and by means of which he was widely 
known. In conducting a journal he was emi- 
nently successful, and, being a forcible and 
\'igorous writer, was able to record himself 
with great ability and clearness. He also took 
an active part in political matters, and was a 
member of the Legislative Assembly from 
1872 to 1882. In religion. he was an Angli- 
can and a member of St. James' Church, St. 
John, N. B., in which he held the offices of 
church warden and superintendent of the Sab- 
bath-school. He was married in 1S78 to Sarah 
Adams, daughter of Zechariah and Mary Chap- 
man Adams. Their famil}' consisted of three 
daughters and five sons. 




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His son, E. Le Roi Willis, of whom a por- 
trait appears on a neighboring page of this 
volume, is well known to the travelling public 
as a prominent hotel-keeper, having been for 
a number of years pro]5rietor of the Hotel 
Dufferin, St. John. He is now located at 
Sydney, Cape Breton County, N.S., where he 
is conducting a hotel. Possessed of much of 
his father's ability and of a pleasant and genial 
disposition, he is widely popular, and his suc- 
cess in life is practically assured. 




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^ETER CAMPBELL,* a well-known 
business man of St. John, dealer in 
stoves and other heating apparatus, 
also in plumbing, was born in this city, 1S42, 
son of Peter, Sr. , and Ann (Douglas) Campbell. 
His parents were natives of Perthshire, Scot- 
land, and his father was born in 18 12. His 
grandparents were John and Margaret (Mc- 
Laren) Campbell, the former of whom died in 
early manhood, leaving three small children to 
the care of their mother, who labored dili- 
gently and faithfully to rear them in a way 
that would enable them to begin life for them- 
selves in an advantageous manner. The sons, 
Peter, Sr. , and John, completed the shipsmith's 
trade in Dundee; and Peter, Sr., who came to 
New Brunswick first, was afterward followed 
by John, his sister Jeanette, and his mother. 
The latter was a sister of the late Peter Mc- 
Laren, who came to St. John in 181 7, and en- 
gaged in the business of a shipsmith. Peter 
McLaren died in 1864. He was the father of 
three children, namely : John Robertson, who 



died at the age of thirty-three; Jane, who mar- 
ried John Campbell; and Jeanette, who mar- 
ried, and died in 1890. Peter, Sr. , and John 
Campbell were in the employ of their uncle 
until his retirement in 1842, when they suc- 
ceeded him in business, under the firm name 
of P. & J. Campbell. Their shops on North 
Street were burned in 1849; and, moving to 
the Union Street dock, they carried on an ex- 
tensive business in ship-iron work. They 
later removed to the site now occupied by the 
electric light station, and remained there until 
retiring from business in 1887. 

John Campbell is still living, and resides 
upon a farm in Bloomfield. He married his 
cousin, Jane McLaren, and has four children 
— John A., Peter E., Jane, and Emma. Peter 
E. Campbell is a florist on Dock Street, St. 
John. 

Peter Campbell, Sr. , was in his early years 
a member of a Scotch military company. He 
was prominently identified with the St. An- 
drew's Society, and belonged to the Deacons' 
Court of St. James' Church. His death oc- 
curred in i8g6. He married Ann Douglas, 
a native of Perthshire and a daughter of 
Robert Douglas. Ller father emigrated with 
his family to St. John in 1817, and was en- 
gaged in farming here for the rest of his active 
period. Plis children were: Daniel, John, 
Robert, Ellen, Jane, Mary, and Ann, of whom 
the only one living is Robert. John Douglas 
died in 1S54, and Daniel lived to be ninety- 
one years old. Peter, Sr., and Ann Campbell 
were the parents of four children : John; Peter, 
the subject of this sketch; Robert; and Mar- 



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garet. John, who was born in 1839, was a 
railway postal clerk; and his death was caused 
by a railway accident at Kingman, Me., in 
1S89. He married Isabella, daughter of John 
Smith, and left four children — Robert, Agnes, 
Jeanette, and Margaret. Robert Campbell, 
son of Peter, Sr. , is business manager for 
Douglas & Co., Halifax. He married Jean 
Rogs, and has four sons. Margaret, who mar- 
ried James Rogs, of Moncton, N. B. , died in 
September, 1S9S, leaving two sons — William 
C. and Douglas Rogs. The mother died in 
1888. 

The Campbell brothers were schoolmates of 
the Hon. Alexander McDonald, and during the 
latter' s visit to St. John they had an opportu- 
nity of recalling many pleasant recollections 
of their boyhood days. 

Peter Campbell, son of Peter, Sr. , and the 
principal subject of this sketch, was educated 
under the direction of Mr. Mills. Prior to 
his sixteenth birthday he began his appren- 
ticeship with his father; and, after serving five 
and one-half years, he entered the office of the 
firm, where he was employed as an accountant 
until 1875. The succeeding year was spent in 
visiting the old country; and upon his return 
he entered the employ of James Harris & Co., 
with whom he remained a year, and then be- 
came a member of the firm of Bowes, Campbell 
& Ellis. That concern was succeeded by 
Campbell & Ellis; and since the death of the 
latter, which occurred in 1888, Mr. Campbell 
has carried on the business alone. He handles 
stoves, ranges, steam and hot-air heaters, and 
kindred articles, has an extensive plumbing 



establishment, and is carrying on a thriving 
business. In 1868, in New York, Mr. Camp- 
bell was united in marriage with Margaret K. 
Henry, who was born in Perthshire, Scotland, 
daughter of William Henry. Mr. and Mrs. 
Campbell have four children; namely, Jessie 
A., Margaret, William H., and Grace. Will- 
iam H. is in business with his father. 

Mr. Campbell is an advanced Mason, a mem- 
ber of the St. Andrew's Society, and was for- 
merly a Captain in the militia. He is a 
member and an official of St. Stephen's 
Church. 



fs^OSIAH J. ANDERSON, Collector of 
Customs at Sackville, N. B., was born 
in that town, October 7, 1834. He is 
a son of the late James Anderson and grand- 
son of Thomas Anderson, the second. Further 
ancestral history may be found in connection 
with the sketch of his cousin. Captain Thomas 
R. Anderson, on another page of this work. 

James Anderson was born in Sackville in 
1801, and was early trained to habits of in- 
dustry and thrift. Selecting farming as an 
occujjation, he bought land when a young man; 
and in his earnest efforts to improve a good 
homestead he met with deserved success, and 
became one of the leading agriculturists of his 
day. He was a Liberal in politics, and for 
several years prior to his death, in 1869, 
ser\'ed as Magistrate. His wife, Anna Ting- 
ley, daughter of Agreen Tingley, survived him 
several years, dying in 1877, aged seventy- 
three years. Both were active members of the 
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long time. They were the parents of five 
children, of whom three are living — Thomas, 
Josiah J,, and Zeney. 

Josiah J. Anderson was educated at Mount 
Allison Academy in Sackville, and he sub- 
sequently taught school a number of years 
in this vicinity. Then, turning his attention 
to the pursuit of agriculture, to which he had 
been bred, he assumed the management of the 
paternal homestead, on which he now resides 
and has since been prosperously engaged in 
tilling the soil. Taking an intelligent inter- 
est in the leading questions of the day, Mr. 
Anderson occupies a position of considerable 
prominence in public affairs, and has given 
excellent service to his fellow-townsmen in 
various offices. P'or a number of years he has 
been Justice of the Peace, and at various times 
was Assessor of Rates of the parish, besides 
which he has served as Valuator of the County 
of Westmoreland for a number of years. He 
was elected by the joarish of Sackville as one of 
the first Municipal Council in the county of 
Westmoreland. He is at present a School 
Trustee and a member of the Provincial Board of 
Agriculture, also Collector of Customs for this 
port, having been appointed in 1897. 

On June 26, 1872, Mr. Anderson married 
Lois A., daughter of William Kinnear, Esq., 
of Sackville. They have four children; 
namely, Alice V., James F., Lena B. , and 
Gussie M. Alice V., the eldest daughter, 
graduated from the Lady's College at Mount 
Allison and from the Boston Conservatory of 
Music. She subsequently taught music at the 
Acadian Seminary in Nova Scotia for some 



time, and then went abroad and spent a year 
in further perfecting her musical education 
under tuition of some of the best teachers of 
Germany. She married the Rev. M. A. Mac- 
Lean, pastor of the Baptist church of North 
Sidney, N. S. Mr. MacLean was born at 
Victoria Cross, P.E.L, in 1871. In early life 
he taught school for a number of years in his 
native province, and afterward took a four 
years' course at Acadia College, Nova Scotia, 
where he graduated at the head of his class. 
He subsequently spent two years at Chicago 
University, and then took a theological course 
at Rochester University, New York, where he 
graduated in 1898. 

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's other children — ■ 
James F., Lena B., and Gussie M., — are still 
living under the parental roof, and are aged 
nineteen, sixteen, and eleven years respectively. 



fOSEPH W. McALARY,* of St. John 
was born in Cambridge, Queens County, 
N. B., in 1863. His parents were James 
and Phebe (I-Ieustis) McAlary, the father born 
in New Brunswick in 1823. Mr. McAlary 's 
grandfather, Jarnes McAlary, who came from 
the north of Ireland, settled in Queens County, 
where he followed farming and lived to an ad- 
vanced age. He married a Miss Clark, and 
they brought up a family of five children, of 
whom James was the fourth-born. James 
McAlary was reared to farm life, and is still 
following that occupation. He is a Deacon 
of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge. 
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daughter of Samuel Heustis. They have had 
three children — ^ Joseph W., Alice, and Fred- 
erick W. 

Joseph W. McAlary acquired his education 
in the common schools of Cambridge, N. B. 
At the age of eighteen he went to St. John, 
and entered the employ of James Watson, with 
whom he remained until the latter's death. 
He then continued with Mr. Watson's sons, 
who had succeeded to the business, as ac- 
countant and manager of the mercantile de- 
partment, which position he still holds. He 
is also the owner of several coasting-vessels. 

In 1888 Mr. McAlary married Miss Ada 
Armstrong, daughter of John Armstrong, of 
St. John; and of this union there are two 
daughters — Hazel and Helen. After her 
death Mr. McAlary married for his second 
wife, in October, 1897, Miss Maggie W. 
Easterbrook, daughter of John F. Easterbrook, 
of St. John. 

Mr. McAlary is a member of the Indepen- 
dent Order of Good Templars. He attends the 
Main Street Baptist Church, of the Sunday- 
school of which he is treasurer. 



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T^HARLES A. CLARK,* proprietor of 
I J| a thriving grocery store in St. John, 

^ — ^ was born in that city in 1855, son 
of Charles and Barbara Clark. His father was 
a native of Gi'anville, Annapolis County, N.S., 
and his mother was born in St. John. His 
grandfather, James Clark, came to New Bruns- 
wick with the Loyalists in 1783, and was a 
farmer. James was the father of five children 



— James, Daniel, Edmund, Richard, and 
Charles. Charles Clark, who was born in 
1 8 14, remained at home and assisted his father 
upon the farm until reaching the age of thirty 
years, when he came to St. John and engaged 
in business as a carpenter and builder, which 
occupation he followed for nearly twenty-five 
years. His death, which occurred in 1868, 
was caused by an accident while he was erect- 
ing the Isaac Burpee building, which stood 
upon the site now occupied by the Canadian 
Drug Company's store. His wife, Barbara, 
whose maiden name was Bowen, and whom he 
married in 1S53, was the widow of Captain 
John Beck, master of a coaster running be- 
tween St. John and Philadelphia. She died 
in June, 1898, in her eighty-seventh year. 
Of her first marriage there were two children : 
John Beck, a prominent merchant of St. John, 
who died in 1S85; and Augusta, who is the 
widow of Sidney B. Patterson. The only child 
of her second union is Charles A. Clark, the 
subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Clark attended the Methodist Episcopal church. 
After completing his education in the gram- 
mar schools of St. John, Charles A. Clark be- 
came a clerk in the store of his half-brother, 
John Beck, a commission merchant on South 
Wharf, and remained there until the store was 
destroyed by fire in 1S75. He then engaged 
in the grocery business on Charlotte Street, 
subsequently removing thence to the north end 
of King Square, and in 1S94 settled in his 
present location in the City Market Building, 
where he is carrying on a profitable business. 
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with Miss Emma McAlpine, a daughter of 
David McAlijine, publisher of the St. John 
Directory. They have two children — Emma 
Jean and Barbara Ethel. Mr. Clark is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic order. He belongs to the 
Salvage Corps, and is captain of the fire police. 
In his religious belief he is a Methodist. 




ILLIAM FREDERICK HARRI- 
SON,* a wholesale grocer of St. John, 
was born at Sheffield, Sunbury County, N. B. , 
in 1830, son of the Hon. Charles and Mary 
(Burpee) Harrison, his mother being a daugh- 
ter of one of the earliest settlers of Sheffield. 
The Harrisons first settled in Virginia about 
1670; and it is from this branch of the family 
that William Henry, ninth President of the 
United States, and ex-President Benjamin 
Harrison are descended. The first member of 
this branch to achieve notoriety was Benjamin 
Harrison, father of William Henry Harrison, 
who in 1 78 1 was elected Governor of Virginia. 
Nearly a hundred years after this portion of 
the family came to Virginia, in 1767, two 
brothers, Charles and James Harrison, came 
out from County Antrim, Ireland, to join the 
descendants of the first settler; but at the time 
of the Revolutionary War Benjamin Harrison 
with his family sided with the Americans (he 
being one of the signers of the Declaration of 
Independence), while Charles and James re- 
mained loyal to the British side, and obtained 
commissions in the imperial army under Sir 
Henry Clinton. In 1783 these two brothers 
came to New Brunswick with the Loyalists; 



and in the following year Charles Harrison 
was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the mili- 
tia of Sunbury County by Governor Thomas 
Carleton, and with his brother James settled 
at Sheffield. Charles died unmarried; and 
James married Charity Coperthwaite, a Quak- 
eress from Philadelphia, and died in 1806, 
leaving five sons and four daughters, one of 
whom was Charles Harrison, the father of the 
subject of this sketch. 

William Frederick Harrison came to St. 
John in 1851. He, with Mr. Price, estab- 
lished the carriage factory now carried on by 
Price & Shaw. A few years later he withdrew 
from the firm to enter into partnership with 
his brother, Jeremiah Harrison; and the two 
carried on a large wholesale provision business 
until a few years ago, when the partnership 
was dissolved. 

Mr. Harrison married a daughter of the late 
Lieutenant Colonel Tupper, of Woodstock ; and 
they have five children now living — Charles, 
William, Laura, Bertram, and Walter. 



"wV/lLLIAM H. FOWT 
VpV^ John, was born in 



LER,* miller, St. 
Sackville, West- 
moreland County, N. B., in 1842, son of George 
and Rebecca (Hicks) Fowler. His father, who 
was born in England about the year 1783, 
served an apprenticeship of seven years at the 
tanner's and currier's trade. Coming to New 
Brunswick in 181 2 on board of a privateer, he 
located in Sackville, where he resumed his 
trade, and for nearly a quarter of a century was 
manager of a large tanning and currying busi- 



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ness carried on by James Ayer. He died in 
1878. His wife, Rebecca, was of Loyalist an- 
cestry. She was a sister of Byle and Read 
Hicks, who reside respectively in Dorchester 
and Sackville, and are prosperous farmers. 
George and Rebecca Fowler were the parents 
of eight children; namely, Elizabeth, Sarah 
Ann, Mary, Josiah, Amos, George, William 
H., and Read. Elizabeth, who married a Mr. 
Tower, is no longer living; Sarah Ann is the 
widow of James Cole; Mary died at about the 
age of twenty years; Josiah died at twenty- 
two; Amos, at twenty-eight; Read died in 
1895; George is residing in Sackville. Re- 
becca Fowler, the mother, died in 1847. Both 
parents were members of the Baptist church. 

William H. Fowler spent three years in 
learning the tanner's and currier's trade, and 
subsequently served an apprenticeship of four 
years at the carriage-maker's trade. Going to 
Massachusetts in 1865, he was for the succeed- 
ing ten years engaged in the carriage business. 
In 1875 he returned to New Brunswick, and 
settled in St. John, where for the ne.xt three 
years he was engaged in the wool trade. He 
then went into the flour and feed business, and 
in 1882 jjurchased a piece of property at Marsh 
Bridge, formerly used for manufacturing pur- 
poses, and, putting in a set of grist-mill ma- 
chinery especially for the grinding of corn 
meal, has conducted a successful business 
continuously to the present time. His mill 
has a capacity for grinding one hundred and 
eighty bushels in ten hours, and he is one of 
the best known merchant millers in that 
locality. 



In March, 1870, Mr. Fowler was joined in 
marriage with Miss Margaret Pierson, daughter 
of Captain John Pierson, of this city. They 
have had eight children, five of whom died in 
infancy. Those now living are: Margaret, 
Alexander, and William Leopold. 

Mr. Fowler is a Master Mason, and belongs 
to Hibernian Lodge. He attends the Baptist 
church. 




ILLIAM SOMMERVILLE MOR- 
RISON, M.D., a homoeopathic phy- 
sician of St. John, N. B. , was born at Wilmot, 
Annapolis, N. S. , September 20, 1849. His 
parents were Daniel and Margaret (Campbell) 
Morrison, natives of the north of Ireland, and 
his remoter ancestors on both sides were 
Scotch. His professional studies were pursued 
in the medical department of Boston Univer- 
sity, where in 1881 he graduated as Doctor of 
Medicine. He has built u^d in St. John a 
large practice, which is constantly increasing; 
and he stands high in the estimation of the 
public generally. 

Dr. Morrison belongs to the Knights of 
Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
and to various temperance societies, and is 
Past Chief of Clan MacKenzie, O. S. C. He 
is also an active member of the Young Men's 
Christian Association and corresponding mem- 
ber of the International Committee of the 
Young Men's Clu'istian Association. He is 
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Homceopathy. In politics he is a Liberal, 
but takes no prominent part in political affairs, 
being obliged to devote all his time to his ex- 
tensive practice. In religion he is a Presby- 
terian. 

Dr. Morrison was married January 28, 1885, 
to Mary, daughter of the Rev. James Kennedy, 
of New York City. His family consists of 
four sons; namely, James Kennedy, Frank 
Sifford, Hugh O'Neill, and Fraser Campbell. 



B 



E BLAVIERE CARRITTE, an en- 
terprising and prosperous business 
man of St. John, was born in Am- 
herst, N.S. , March 14, 1856, a son of Thomas 
W. and Susanna Louise (Givandan) Carritte. 
He was educated in St. John, to which place 
his family came in 1870. He gained his first 
industrial experience in the employ of I^obert 
Robertson & Son, ship's outfitters and chand- 
lers, this being the largest firm of the kind at 
that time in St. John. After remaining there 
three years he went to New York City, where 
for five years he was engaged in the hat manu- 
facturing business. Then for a short time he 
conducted business in New York as a dealer 
in naval stores, and he still has an interest in 
this business, of which he started a branch in 
St. John. In 1 889 he organized the Provincial 
Chemical Fertilizer Company, of which he is 
now president, the company having been in- 
corporated in 1 891. The business has grown 
to be one of the most extensive industries in 
New Brunswick. In 1894 Mr. Carritte estab- 



lished the Welcome Soap Company of St. 
John, two years later establishing also a branch 
of this company in St. Johns, N. F. In 1898 
he incorporated the Carritte Paterson Manu- 
facturing Company of Halifax, of which he is 
now president. This comjiany, using the 
product of the People's Heat and Light Com- 
pany, manufactures all kinds of roofing, and 
is engaged also in distilling coal tar and mak- 
ing pitch. These various enterprises, all of 
which are in a flourishing condition, show Mr. 
Carritte to be a thoroughly wide-awake business 
man, while his reputation for honorable deal- 
ing is such as to inspire general confidence. 

Mr. Carritte was married in March, 1883, to 
Miss Mary E. Robinson, a daughter of James 
and Maria (Merritt) Robinson, of St. John. 
Mr. and Mrs. Carritte have one child living, 
a son Roy, born in July, 1884. A daughter, 
Marie, born October 1891, died in June, 
1898. 




EEDEN FOWLER, a well-known 
and highly respected citizen of 

, was born in Hammond Vale, 

Kings County, N.B. , in 1S23, son of Amnion 
and Mary (Taylor) Fowler. He is a grand- 
son of Weeden Fowler, first, a Loyalist of 
1783, who settled on the grant of land now 
comprising the Fowler homestead in French 
Village, Kings County, N.B. 

The father of the first Weeden Fowler not 
being a Loyalist, he remained in the States, 
and in 18 12 Amnion Fowler, his grandson, 
started to visit him. On account of the pri- 



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vateers then filling the ocean waters, however, 
he could not find any vessel to take him from 
New Brunswick; and he started up the St. 
John River. Arriving at Mayorville in Sun- 
bury County, he met Miss Mary Taylor, with 
whom he straightway fell in love. Two years 
later he led this lady to the altar, and she 
subsequently became the mother of his thirteen 
children. Of this large family four died in 
infancy. The nine who grew to maturity 
were: Elizabeth, Jemima, Ellinor, Weeden, 
David, George W. , Justus, Mary, and Judson 
M. Elizabeth married Charles Parker, of 
St. John, Jemima married William Bowser, 
of Sackville, and Ellinor married Edward 
Taylor, of Maugerville. All these, and also 
David, George VV. , and Justus, are deceased. 
Mary married Thaddeus Scribner, of Kent 
County. Judson M. resides in St. John. 
Ammon Fowler was a Deacon of the Baptist 
church for many years and one of its most de- 
voted and consistent members. His death oc- 
curred in 1872. His wife died in 1S74, at 
the advanced age of eighty-three. 

Weeden Fowler, son of Ammon, was reared 
as a farmer's boy, and received a common- 
school education. He was then apprenticed 
to his cousin James Hamilton to learn the 
tanner's and currier's trade. After complet- 
ing his apprenticeship he established a tan- 
nery in Hammond, and there for many years 
he carried on an extensive business. For 
some years past he has been engaged in agri- 
cultural pursuits. He was first married in 
1853 to Miss Harriet Fownes, of St. Martins. 
She bore him the following-named children : 



David ]., who resides on the Fowler home- 
stead, and is Councillor for the parish; Ed- 
mund H., who is in business in Vancouver, 
B.C. ; George W. ; and Weeden C, the last 
named of whom is in business in Dawson 
City, N. W. T. Mrs. Harriet Fowler died in 
1867. Mr. Fowler subsequently married a 
daughter of the Hon. George Ryan, of Stud- 
holm. She bore him one child, Harriet M., 
now the wife of A. H. Robinson, superintend- 
ent of the Havelock Railroad. The second 
Mrs. Fowler died in 1886, and Mr. Fowler 
subsequently married Annie Cahill, of Sack- 
ville. 

Mr. Fowler has always taken a warm and 
active interest in all matters pertaining to the 
administration of local affairs, and has held 
every position of prominence to which his 
fellow-townsmen could elect him. He has 
served as Parish Court Commissioner, being 
the oldest magistrate in the county. From 
early manhood he has been an ardent advocate 
of temperance, and neither he nor his father 
ever tasted into.Nicating liquors. Politically, 
he is a Conservative, and in religious faith a 
Baptist. 

George W. Fowler was born in Hammond 
Vale on February 24, i860. His education 
was received at Dalhousie University, Hali- 
fax, and at Boston University. He was grad- 
uated from the last-named institution in June, 
1884. In the following October he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in New Brunswick, and a 
year later was made barrister. He began the 
practice of his profession in Sussex, where he 
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ance man and a willing worker in behalf of 
the public advancement. For four years he 
served as a member of the Municipal Council 
and for three years as a member of the local 
legislature. He is a member of the Order of 
Orangemen. 

Mr. George \V. Fowler was married in 
July, 1897, to Miss Ethel G. Wilson, daugh- 
ter of Captain J. C. Wilson, of the Allan Line 
of steamers. He has one little daughter, 
Gladys W. 



-AMES C. ROBERTSON, who was for 
some time connected with the Portland 
Rolling Mills, was born in Bridgetown, 
N. S., being a son of the Rev. James and Mirca 
(Hansard) Robertson. 

The Rev. James Robertson was a native of 
Strathsay, Perthshire, Scotland, born in 1802. 
He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 
where in 1826 he received the degree of Master 
of Arts, and in 1856 that of Doctor of Laws. 
On December 8, 1828, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Northern Institution for the promo- 
tion of science and literature in Inverness. 
He was ordained a priest of the Church of 
England by Bishop Skinner, of Aberdeen, at 
St. Andrew's Chapel in that cit)', June 8, 
1S29, having previously served in deacon's 
orders as assistant at Meikelfield, near 
Inverness. In 1829 he came to Newfoundland 
as missionary of the S. P. G. In 1832 he 
came to Bridgetown, where he filled the office 
of rector of the then undivided parish, al- 
though he was not formally appointed until 



1S37. In 1854 he removed to Wilmot; and 
he died at Middleton, January 19, 1878. He 
was a iDrofound general and scientific scholar 
as well as theologian. In 1835 he received a 
silver medal from the Mechanics Institute, 
Halifax (J. Leander Starr, president), for the 
best essay on the Application of Science to the 
Arts. He was the author of an able treatise 
on infant baptism, besides other pamphlets 
and essays. 

His wife, Mirca, was the youngest daughter 
of Major Hansard of the Si.xty-ninth Regiment 
of Foot, and a sister of the wife of the late 
Archdeacon Coster, of Fredericton, N.B. 

James C. Robertson after coming to St. 
John became connected with the Harris Allan 
Company, and subsequently he accepted a re- 
sponsible position with the Portland Rolling 
Mills. 




HARLES EDWARD LEONARD 



JARVIS, insurance agent and ad- 
juster of fire-insurance losses, one 
of the leading citizens of St. John, N.B., was 
born in St. John, on July 17, 1840, son of Ed- 
ward Lutwyche and Iillen Maclean (Leonard) 
Jarvis. A full account of his family ancestry 
is given in the sketch of W. M. Jarvis, which 
precedes this. 

His father, Edward Lutwyche Jarvis, was 
born in St. John in 1807, and on attaining his 
majority went into business with his father as 
a partner. His marriage took place in 1838, 
his wife being a daughter of Charles Edward 
Leonard, who removed from St. John to Sid- 



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ney, Cape Breton, where he was collector of 
customs for many years, and where Mrs. Jarvis 
was born. In 1850 Mr. Jarvis removed to St. 
Johns, Newfoundland, and there engaged in 
the insurance business, and was appointed 
Colonial A. D. C. He took great interest in 
military matters, and while in New Brunswick 
was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 0. N. B. R. 
His death occurred in Newfoundland in 1878. 
He and his wife were the parents of four chil- 
dren ; namely, Isabel Maclean, Charles E. L., 
Ellen Caroline, and Mary Nutting. Mrs. Jar- 
vis survived her husband about six months, 
dying in the spring of 1879. 

Isabel Maclean Jarvis married William B. 
Bowring, ex-Lord-Mayor of London, Eng- 
land. Ellen Caroline Jarvis married Charles 
Wesham, Lieutenant in Her Majesty's Sixty- 
second Regiment. Mary Nutting Jarvis mar- 
ried Henry E. Hayward, of St. Johns, N.F. 

Charles E. L. Jarvis was reared and edu- 
cated in St. John, N.B. , and in St. Johns, 
Newfoundland, and upon leaving school en- 
tered his father's office, where he remained 
until 1865. Returning then to St. John, he 
was made general agent, in the spring of 1866, 
of the Queen's Insurance Company, which 
company he has now represented in New 
Brunswick for upward of thirty years. He is 
also general agent for the Insurance Company 
of North America and adjuster of fire insurance 
losses, and has served as president of the New 
Brunswick Board of Fire Underwriters. Since 
1895 he has been Vice-Consnl of the Republic 
of Brazil. 

Mr. Jarvis married, in 1867, Annie Ellen 



Leonard, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mc- 
Ghee, who at the time of his death was rector 
of Sussex, N.B. The five children born of 
this union are: Isabel H., Florence A., Ethel 
H., Edward L., and Murray Maclean. 



KIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE 
J. MAUNSELL,* Commander of the 
■^^ Royal Regiment of Canadian Infan- 
try, the companies of which are stationed at 
Regimental depots in London and Toronto, 
Ont. , at St. Johns, P.O., and in Fredericton, 
N.B. , has been connected with the military 
service of Great Britain and the Provinces 
as a commissioned ofificer for the larger jsart of 
his active life. He was born of distinguished 
ancestry, August 25, 1836, at Bally-Wil- 
liam House, Rathkeale, County Limerick, 
Ireland. 

His father, George Meares Maunsell, whose 
name is found in "Burke's Irish Landed Gen- 
try," was Justice of the Peace at Bally-Will- 
iam House, where he married a daughter of the 
Rev. J. Stopford. Her father, according to 
"Burke's Peerage," was a son of the Bishop 
of Cloyne and Ross, and a direct descendant of 
Lord Courtown. 

George J. Maunsell received his preliminary 
military education at Sandhurst Royal Military 
College, in which he passed his final examina- 
tions in May, 1855. Being subsequently ap- 
pointed to the P^ifteenth Regiment, he was 
with it at various Mediterranean stations dur- 
ing the Crimean War, when the regiment was 
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service. During the following two years he 
travelled extensively in Southern Europe, more 
especially in Spain, through which he passed 
on foot and on horseback. After his return 
he took a course of militar}' engineering in 
iS57at the Royal College at Aldershot, and 
when there was employed on the staff. On 
November 27 of that year he was promoted 
from the rank of Ensign to that of Lieutenant. 
In the winter of 1858 and 1859, Lieutenant 
]\Iaunsell further advanced his knowledge of 
military tactics by an attendance at the School 
of Musketry, from which he received a certifi- 
cate of the first-class on January 26, 1859, and 
a few days later, February 10, was appointed 
Instructor of Musketry. On March 12, 1861, 
he was gazetted Captain of a company in Her 
Majesty's Fifteenth Regiment, and for some 
time afterward was Acting Adjutant, and In- 
structor of Musketry at the Eighth Battalion 
Depot. 

In January, 1864, Captain Maunsell came to 
New Brunswick via Halifa.x. The Civil War 
in the United States was then nearing its 
close, and Captain Maunsell accompanied the 
Army of the Potomac in the spring campaign 
of 1865, and at the capture of Richmond, Va. , 
was temporarily attached to the staff of Gen- 
eral Grant. On November 22, 1S65, he was 
made Adjutant-general of the New Brunswick 
militia, and, in addition to organizing com- 
panies, was called upon to assist in defending 
the western frontier of the Province during the 
Fenian invasion of 1866. After the passage 
of the military act on January i, 1869, Colo- 
nel Maunsell was gazetted Deputy Adjutant- 



general of Military District No. 8, New 
Brunswick, and between 1S71 and 1880 he 
was entrusted with the charge of the tactical 
brigade camps at P^redericton, Woodstock, and 
Chatham, and also took a course of study and 
obtained a certificate at the Royal Arsenal, 
Woolwich. 

On April i, 1881, Lieutenant Colonel 
Maunsell assumed command of Military Dis- 
trict No. 4, and in addition to having charge 
of brigade camps at Ottawa and Brock vi lie was 
at the head of the Infantry School of Instruc- 
tion at Ottawa, where he had his headquarters. 
On July 21, 1883, he sailed for England, 
where, for purposes of further instruction, he 
was attached to Her Majesty's forces at Aider- 
shot; and while thus engaged he visited vari- 
ous places in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, 
and France, and several of the battlefields of 
the Franco-German War in search of informa- 
tion connected with his profession. In No- 
vember, 1883, he returned to Ottawa, and on 
December 31, 1883, was appointed Com- 
mandant of the School of Infantry connected 
with what is now the Royal Regiment of Cana- 
dian Infantry. 

On May 16, 1884, Colonel Maunsell, still 
retaining command of the school and corps 
with which he was connected, was reappointed 
Deputy Adjutant-general of District No. 8, 
New Brunswick. In May, 1885, the Colonel 
organized a temporary battalion, composed of 
the school corps, six militia companies of New 
Brunswick, and two Prince Edward Island 
military companies, and with them started for 
immediate service in the North-west Territory; 



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but on the eighteenth day of that month was 
ordered into camp at Sussex, where he was to 
await further orders, and seven days later he 
received the thanks of the authorities. The 
companies, their services being no longer 
needed, were then sent to their local headquar- 
ters. In 1896 Lieutenant Colonel Maunsell 
was appointed Inspector of Infantry for the 
eastern division of Canada, which comprises 
the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island; and 
he has since been commissioned Lieutenant- 
colonel of the Royal Regiment of Canadian 
Infantry, with headquarters at Fredericton. 

On August 9, 1862, Colonel Maunsell mar- 
ried Miss Mooney, one of the older daughters of 
the late F. E. Mooney, J. P., D. L., of "The 
Doon, " Kings County, Ireland. He has four 
sons and three daughters. The eldest son is a 
Captain in the Eighth Regiment, P. L. Cav- 
alry, in New Brunswick, and the eldest daugh- 
ter is the wife of J. W. de Courcy O' Grady, of 
the Bank of Ottawa, Montreal. Colonel 
Maunsell has been a communicant of the Epis- 
copal church since his early youth. 



^^ETER CLINCH,* of St. John, a gen- 
eral insurance agent, was born in St. 
George, N.B., January 7, J 855, son 
of Peter and Sarah J. (Wetmore) Clinch. His 
great-grandfather, the first progenitor of the 
family in America, an Irish gentleman and a 
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, came to 
this country when a young man, and, at the 
breaking out of the American Revolution, re- 



maining loyal to the Crown, joined the Royal 
Fencible Americans, in which he served first as 
Lieutenant and later as Captain. At the close 
of the war he settled at St. George, Charlotte 
County, N.B., where the government granted 
him a large tract of land. There he formed a 
military company, which rendered efificient ser- 
vice in the suppression of popular outbreaks. 
Peter Clinch died in St. George at the age of 
sixty. He was a member of the first Council 
before the present form of Provincial govern- 
ment was inaugurated. 

Patrick Clinch, son of Peter, received a 
good education, and became a man of promi- 
nence in Charlotte County. He founded a 
newspaper at St. Andrews, known as The Pro- 
vincialist, served in the Provincial Legislature, 
and for many years was Inspector of Schools. 
He lived to be eighty-four years of age. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Eleanor David- 
son, was of Scotch ancestry. 

Peter Clinch, son of Patrick, and father of 
the present Peter Clinch, grew up in St. 
George, where he became an attorney. He 
married Sarah Josephine, a daughter of the late 
Abraham Wetmore of that place, and of Loyal- 
ist descent. They had fi\'e children, four of 
whom are now living, namely : Marion F. ; 
Elizabeth W. ; D. Carlton, the well-known 
banker of St. John (see sketch, page 167) ; and 
Peter. 

Peter Clinch, the direct subject of this 
sketch, came to St. John when fifteen )'ears of 
age, and for a time was in the employ of \V. H. 
Thorne. In 1S75, however, he entered the 
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he remained until he engaged in business for 
himself in 1883. Mr.. Clinch represents the 
Northern Fire Insurance Company, the British 
Empire Company, and the Employers' Liabil- 
ity Company, all of London. He has been 
secretary for the Board of Underwriters since 
1880. Aside from business, Mr. Clinch takes 
great interest in athletics. In 1876 he won 
the first club rowing scull race, and repeated 
the victory in each of the four succeeding 
years. In 1895, in company with Henry Gil- 
bert, he won the double scull race. He also 
takes an active interest in horse racing. He 
is a member of the Loyalist Society. 



/^TlLBERT BREWSTER,* Collector of 
\mJ. Customs for the port of Harvey, Al- 
bert County, N.B. , was born in that county, 
September 3, 1830, a son of James Brewster, 
and grandson of Nathaniel Brewster, both life- 
long residents of this section of the Province 
of New Brunswick. 

Nathaniel Brewster was a thorough-going, 
prosperous farmer, whose homestead property 
was greatly improved by his years of earnest 
and practical toil in pioneer days. He mar- 
ried Annie Pearson, who bravely faced the 
trials that beset their pathway through life's 
journey, and in death was not parted from him, 
their bodies being laid to rest on the same day. 
They were the parents of si.x children, three 
boys and three girls, of whom James was the 
second son. 

James Brewster was a shipwright by trade, 
and was also extensively engaged both in com- 



mercial and agricultural pursuits. While liv- 
ing at Hopewell Cape, he was one of the lead- 
ing merchants there, and built up a remuner- 
ative trade. He subsequently settled in 
Harvey, where he was for many years a promi- 
nent citizen, being actively identified with its 
public affairs. For a long time he served as 
Magistrate, was also Collector of Customs at 
Harvey, and for years was Judge of Common 
Pleas. In politics he affiliated with the Con- 
servative party. He married Rebecca, daugh- 
ter of John Calhoun, of the United States, and 
they became the parents of fourteen children, 
of whom six are now living, as follows : Jane, 
wife of Rufus Piper, of Houlton, Me. ; Re- 
becca, wife of Asahel Wells, Esq., of New 
York ; Annie, widow of the late Harris B. 
Calhoun; James, of whom there is here no 
special mention; Gilbert, the subject of this 
brief sketch ; and Charles, who married Mary, 
daughter of Captain James E. Wells, of Albert 
County, New Brunswick. Neither of the par- 
ents are living, the father having died at the 
age of fourscore years, and the mother at the 
age of seventy-one years. Both were members 
of the Baptist church. 

Gilbert Brewster obtained his education in 
the schools of Albert County, after which he 
learned from his father the trade of a ship- 
wright. Becoming a skilled and expeditious 
craftsman, he followed that vocation for many 
years with eminent success, working both in 
Canada and in the United States. In 1885 he 
was appointed Collector of Customs for the 
port of Harvey, a position which he has since 
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spirited and benevolent, he is lield in higli 
regard throughout the community. As a true 
and loyal citizen, he takes a genuine interest 
in everything calculated to further the well- 
being of the town and coun,ty, and though not 
an aspirant for political honors he has for a 
number of years served as Justice of the 
Peace. 

On January 19, 1854, Mr. Brewster married 
Amelia, daughter of Captain James E. Wells, 
of Harvey. She died April i, 1S97, aged 
sixty-four years, leaving five children, namely: 
Julia S., wife of Lambert F. West, of Plarvey; 
Gilbert, Jr., manager of a canning factory at 
Skenna River, B.C., who married Florence 
Ritchie, of Albert, N. B., and has one child, 
Estella; Harry Van, who for several years has 
been station agent at Albert, N.B., for the 
Salisbury and Harvey Railway Company, and 
who married Annie P. l^ishop, of Harvey, and 
has two children — Guy Stanley and Arnold 
Carey; Harlan C, a printer by trade, now liv- 
ing in Victoria, B.C., who married Annie 
Downey, of Harvey, and has one child, Ray- 
mond; and James H., unmarried, who resides 
in Kansas, N. S. , where he is employed in the 
Marine Cable Service as telegraph operator. 
Mr. Brewster is a Deact;n in the Baptist 
church, of which both he and his wife became 
members many years ago. 



"jCjZEKIEL McLEOD, O.C, M. P., 'Judge 
J lI of the Supreme Court of New JBruns- 

wick, is a native of Cardwell, Kings County, 
N. B., born on October 29, 1840, a son of John 



and Mary (McCready) McLeod. He was edu- 
cated at King's School, Sussex, N. B. In Oc- 
tober, 1867, he was admitted as an attorney, 
in October of the following year was called to 
the bar, and in 1882 was made a Queen's 
Counsel. Since his admission to the bar he 
has practised his profession in St. John with 
marked success. In May, 1882, he was ap- 
pointed Attorney-General, and in the same 
month was also elected to the local Legislature 
for the city of St. John. He remained a mem- 
ber of the government until March, 1883, when, 
consequent upon' its defeat, he resigned with 
his colleagues, although he continued to act in 
opposition until the Legislature was dissolved. 
In 1886 he was again a candidate for the local 
Legislature, but sustained a defeat. In 1887 
he was a candidate for the Dominion Parlia- 
ment at the general elections for the district 
and county of St. John, with C. A. Everet, 
but was again defeated. In 1891, however, he 
was elected for the city of St. John. In poli- 
tics Judge McLeod is a Liberal Conservative. 
In religious faith he is a Baptist. 



/^^TeORGE McKEAN,* who for thirty 
\PJ_ years has been identified with the 
lumber interests of New Brunswick, was born 
in Armagh, Ireland, in 1842. In 1S67 he 
was sent out from his native land to St. John, 
N. B., as representative of the firm of Francis 
Carvill & Son, and after continuing in that 
capacity until 1872 was admitted to partner- 
ship, the firm name being changed to Carvill, 
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acted a large business, was dissolved in 1883; 
and Ml". McKean immediately engaged in 
business alone. At the present time he is 
one of the most extensive dealers in the city, 
handling manufactured lumber to the amount 
of about one million dollars annuall}'; and he 
ships cargoes to Europe, Africa, and Australia. 

In 1873 Mr. McKean was joined in marriage 
with Annie J. McGiver, daughter of the late 
R. P, McGiver, of St. John. They have three 
children — Mary E., William Kirk, and 
George R. 

Mr. McKean is a Master Mason, and be- 
longs to New Brunswick Lodge. 



■<^* ^» 




|ICHARD HOCKEN,* for many years 
one of the leading merchants of 
Chatham, X. B. , was born in Lis- 
keard, county of Cornwall, England. The 
following facts in regard to Mr. Hocken's life 
and business career are taken mainly from an 
obituary published in a local paper at the time 
of his death, which occurred in his seventy- 
seventh year. 

Mr. Hocken "came to Chatham, September 
22, 1 841, as accountant in the custom-house 
of the port, when the late Mr. Wright was 
collector, under the imperial authorities, and 
the custom-house was at Bushville, quite 
near the present residence of Judge Wilkinson. 
On the iith October, 1846, he was appointed 
Sub-collector at Bathurst, and on the 24th July, 
184S, he was appointed Controller of Customs 
and Navigation Laws at Richibucto. " He 
"ceased to be an imi^erial officer October 21, 



1850, and engaged in business at the stand he 
occupied at the time of his death." Success- 
ful in business, he left a substantial fortune. 
Among the principal bequests outside those to 
members of the family and other relatives were 
two thousand dollars to the Diocesan Church 
Society, one thousand dollars to the Institute 
for the Deaf and Dumb, Fredericton, and one 
thousand dollars to the St. John Protestant 
Orphan Asylum. 

Mr. Hocken's funeral, although the travel- 
ling was very bad, was largely attended, 
friends coming from Newcastle, Douglastown, 
Nelson, Loggieville, and other places. There 
was a private house service conducted by the 
Rev. Cacon Forsyth, rector of St. Paul's, who 
also conducted the public services at the 
churchyard. Appropriate music was rendered 
by the choir of St. Paul's, led by George 
Burchill, Esq., organist. The general sorrow 
felt and expressed at the decease of Mr. 
Hocken was attributable to his many admi- 
rable qualities as a man and citizen. The pub- 
lished obituary above referred to says of him : 
"He was a man of strong and distinct individ- 
uality. His integrity was unquestioned, his 
firmness of purpose uncompromising. His 
conclusions were always reached by methods 
of his own; for he thought and acted for him- 
self, regardless of environment or the views of 
others. In his business and private life he 
was the embodiment of conservatism, although 
an ultra-Liberal in politics. He bent very 
slowly, if at all, to the social ideas of the day, 
if doing so would involve any departure from 
those of the good old Colonial times; and he 



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was intolerant of ostentation in any form. In 
cliannels of which he had knowledge he dis- 
pensed a charity by no means stinted. It was 
as free and adequate as it was quietly exer- 
cised. It was bestowed as a duty as well as 
a pleasure, and seldom where it was unde- 
served. Those who knew him intimately re- 
member also how he could unbend and be as 
genial as he was genuine and original in his 
character; and he was hospitable in the true 
old-fashioned way." 

Mr. Hocken married Susannah, daughter of 
the late Michael Samuel, one of the leading 
merchants of Chatham, whose place of business 
was on Water Street, where the Benson Block 
now stands. Mr. and Mrs. Hocken were the 
parents of eight children — John Joseph, Mary 
C. P., Richard S. , Susan E. , Sophia E. , Flor- 
ence N. , Michael S. , and Elizabeth. The fol- 
lowing is a brief record : — 

John Joseph, born June 22, 1S47, who was 
an accountant, went first to St. John, thence 
to Montreal, and thence to Winnipeg, where 
he died in 1890. Mary C. P., born November 
4, 1848, is the wife of the Rev. Richmond 
Shreve, sometime rector of the Church of the 
Holy Innocents, Albany, N.Y. , now located 
at Cooperstown, N.Y. Richard S., born July 
17, 1850, is an accountant at the Dominion 
Cotton Mills at Moncton. He married Miss 
Minnie Cowling, of Moncton, who is now de- 
ceased. Susan E., born P'ebruary 11, 1852, 
is the wife of the Hon. Allan Ritchie, of 
Newcastle. Sophia K., born P"ebruary 19, 
1854, is the wife of R. B. Joyce, of Toronto, 
Ont. Florence N. , born April 26, 1856, is 



the wife of John Rogers, of Montreal. Michael 
S., born March 14, 1858, was associated with 
his father in business, succeeded him at his 
death, and is now carrying on the business. 
Elizabeth was born July 14, i860. 

The mother, Mrs. Susannah Hocken, who 
was born October 3, 1820, died January 26, 
1876. Mr. Hocken was a vestryman of St. 
Paul's Church. 




HARLES A. PECK,* a well-known 
lawyer of Albert, N.B. , has been 
prominently identified with the pub- 
lic and political interests of Albert County 
during the greater part of his active life. A 
son of Elisha Peck, Jr., he was born August 
12, 1840, at the old Peck homestead on Hope- 
well Hill, where he has always resided. 

His paternal grandfather, Elisha Peck, Sr., 
was born and reared in the United States, but 
when a young man emigrated with a large 
colony of Loyalists to Canada, coming, pre- 
sumably in 1783, to New Brunswick. He 
secured from the Ih'itish Government an e.xten- 
sive grant of land, lying in Albert County, on 
a part of which the present village of Albert 
was built. Devoting himself to agricultural 
pursuits, he cleared a substantial homestead, 
and for many years held a place of prominence 
in the community. Of his eight children, 
I^lisha, Jr., was the second son. 

Eli.sha Peck, Jr., was born in Hopewell, 
N. B., as the town of Albert was then called. 
From his earliest years he worked at farming 
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to the ownership of the parental homestead. 
A man of good business qualifications, he be- 
came a large operator in real estate, and one of 
the leading men of the town For many years 
he was Captain of the old militia company of 
Hopewell, and later in life served as Justice 
of the Peace. He married Sarah, daughter of 
Nathaniel Brewster, and of their eight chil- 
dren two are still living — Judson H. and 
Charles A. Judson married Annie Turner, 
of Dorchester, N.B. , and they have five chil- 
dren — Albert, Elizabeth, George, John, and 
Jane. Both parents have passed to the life 
beyond, the father living to the advanced age 
of eighty-seven, and the mother to that of 
seventy-two. Both belonged to the Baptist 
church. A sketch of one of their grandsons, 
John Lewis Peck, may be found elsewhere in 
this work. 

Charles A. Peck acquired the rudiments of 
his education in the Grammar School of Albert 
County, and was afterwards a student in the 
Baptist Institution of Fredericton, N.B. 
Then for five years he studied law in Dorches- 
ter, N. B. , under the late Sir Albert Smith. 
Admitted to the bar, he was for five years the 
law partner of the late Hon. Bliss Botsford, 
their office being located in Moncton. From 
1867 until 1870 Mr. Peck represented Albert 
County in the New Brunswick legislature. 
For several years thereafter he was associated 
with local railway companies in a legal capac- 
ity, or as an officer. He was the first presi- 
dent of the Albert Southern Railway Com- 
pany, and was subsequently one of its 
directors. For fourteen consecutive years he 



was the solicitor of the Albert Railway, now 
called the Salisbury & Harvey Railway, and 
for a number of terms was a trustee of the 
grammar schools of Albert County. Mr. Peck 
was also active in military affairs for a long- 
time, being Captain of the Albert Militia 
Company when it was first organized. In 1S92 
he was appointed Queen's Counsel. In 1894, 
still retaining his residence at the old ancestral 
homestead on Hopewell Hill, he opened a law 
office in Albert, where he is actively engaged 
in the practice of his profession. In politics 
he is a Conservative, and he is now serving as 
Referee in Equity of Albert County. He is 
an influential member of the Local Court, 
A. O. F. , of Albert, in which he has passed 
the various chairs. 

Mr. Peck married Amelia Nichols, daughter 
of Solomon Nichols, of St. John, N. B., the 
first president of the bank of New Brunswick. 
Mr. and Mrs. Peck have three children: Harry 
B. , who is employed in the Railway Mail Ser- 
vice of the British Government ; Charles Alli- 
son, Jr., a druggist in Hillsboro, N.B. ; and 
Celia. Mrs. Peck is a member of the PZpis- 
copal church, and Mr. Peck is a liberal sup- 
porter of various religious organizations. 




ON. JOHN MERCER JOHNSON, 
M.P.,* a former resident of Chatham, 
now deceased, was born in October, 
1818, in Liverpool, England, where his father 
was a lumber merchant. His father, emigrat- 
ing to Miramichi, N. B., and becoming Sheriff 
of Northumberland County, he was educated in 



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the grammar schools of that county, and, sub- 
sequently studying law, was called to the bar 
in 1840. 

A man of great force of character and more 
than ordinary intellectual power, John Mercer 
Johnson not only achieved fame in his chosen 
profession, but also obtained political honors. 
From 1854 to 1856 he was a member of the 
Executive Council and Solicitor-General of 
New Brunswick. He resigned his position as 
minister, owing to a difference with the Lieu- 
tenant Governor. He was Postmaster-General 
from June, 1857, to October, 1858, remaining, 
however, a member of the government without 
ofifiice until February, 1859. He was Sjoeaker 
of the House of Assembly from that date until 
October, 1862, when he resigned to take the 
office of Attorney-General, which he held until 
1865, when his party was retired from power. 
He sat in the House of Assembly as a member 
from Northumberland from 1850 until the 
union, which he was most active in bringing 
about, and hence has been frequently called 
the "Father of the Confederation." 

Mr. Johnson was married in i8/)0 to Henri- 
etta, third daughter of A. D. Shireff, Esq., of 
Miraraichi, formerly an officer in the 13ritish 
army. By this union there were six children, 
five sons — John, William C, Edward, An- 
drew, and Campbell — and one daughter. 

John, born in Chatham May 26, 1846, was 
educated in the public schools, and subse- 
quently was employed by his uncle, John 
Shireff, in the grocery business, remaining 
with him for some years. He was married in 
1 870 to Miss Louisa Harding, a daughter of 



George B. Harding, of Montreal, and has five 
children. 

William C. Johnson, born in 1850, who is 
a conductor on the Maine Central Railroad, 
running to and from Boston, married Mary 
t'raser, by whom he has had three sons and 
one daughter: Verona, who is now deceased; 
Alexander; Eraser; and Fred. 

Edward Johnson, born in 1852, received his 
education in the Chatham Grammar School. 
Af1;er leaving school he found employment 
with the Hon. William Ulne & Co., in the 
mercantile and lumber business, and remained 
with them a number of years. In 1883 he 
established his present business in Chatham as 
a dealer in books and stationery, in which he 
has been very successful. He also does a good 
business as a coal merchant and as an express 
agent and railroad ticket agent. He married 
in 1 88 1 Miss Jessie Johnson, daughter of Dr. 
James Johnson. His wife died in 1894. He 
is a member of the Church of England. 

Andrew Johnson, born in 1854, studied 
law with the Hon. Mr. Tweedie, and, after 
being called to the bar, practised in Chatham 
for some time. He is in Iowa. lie married 
Eva Barnes. 

Campbell Johnson received his elementary 
education in the grammar school, and subse- 
quently took a four years' course in the mili- 
tary school at P'redcricton. He is married and 
has three children. 

Mrs. Henrietta Johnson sur\-ives her hus- 
band, and at the age of seventy-three years 
retains to a remarkable degree her mental and 
physical powers. 



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ILLIAM DOHERTY,* member of 
firm of Doherty & Foster, St. 
John, was born in that city in 1845, a son of 
William and Sarah (Carl) Doherty. His 
jjarents, natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, 
where they were reared and married, emigrated 
to New Brunswick. William Doherty, Sr., 
was a ship-builder by trade, and followed that 
occupation many years. He was the father of 
ten children, five of whom are now living: 
John, who is a ship-carpenter in St. John; 
Margaret, also a resident of St. John and the 
widow of Patrick Lynch; Charles, a ship-car- 
penter; Bridget, who is the widow of James 
Cane, of St. John; and William, the subject 
of this sketch. The parents are no longer 
living. 

William Doherty was educated in the public 
schools of St. John. He served an apprentice- 
ship of four years at the tailor's trade, and, 
after working for some time in St. John as 
a journeyman, went to Fredericton, where he 
remained three years. Then, returning to St. 
John, he was for a short time a member of the 
firm of Finn & Doherty, who conducted busi- 
ness on Dock Street. Later, forming a part- 
nership with Frank H. Foster, they located 
under the Revere House on King Street, 
whence they removed to Market Square, and 
in 1 884 from Market Square to their present 
store at 71 Prince William Street, where they 
are doing an extensive business. 

In 1878 Mr. Doherty married Katie Ma- 
honey, daughter of John Mahoney, a native of 
Ireland. They have had five children, one of 
whom, Sarah, died at the age of fifteen years. 



The others are: Julia, William J., Mary, and 
Frank. 

Mr. Doherty is a member of the Catholic 
Mutual Benefit Association. He attends the 
Roman Catholic Church. 




TERLING B. LORDLY,* superin- 
tendent of the Lordly Furniture 
Company, St. John, was born in 
Fredericton, N. B., in 1858, son of Albert J. 
Lordly. His father was born in Chester, N. S. ; 
and a more extended account of the family will 
be found in a sketch of Albert J. Lordly, which 
appears elsewhere in the Review. 

Sterling B. Lordly completed his education 
in the St. John Superior School, which was 
then in charge of Thomas W. Lee. He began 
his apprenticeship at the cabinet-maker's trade 
with Lordly & Howe, and served seven years. 
After the great fire of 1877 he became associ- 
ated with his father in their factory on City 
Road, which they established in 1880, and 
which was burned on July 21 of the following 
year, causing them a heavy loss. On July i, 
1 881, they resumed business on Broad Street, 
where they remained until 1891, when they 
moved to the Electric Light Building on Para- 
dise Row. The business was carried on as 
a partnership concern until April, 1S97, when 
the Lordly Furniture Company, Limited, was 
organized. This concern, which manufactures 
all kinds of furniture, employs an average of 
thirty skilled workmen, and under its present 
superintendent is doing an excellent business. 

Mr. Lordly contracted his first marriage 



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June 23, 1 886, with Jean M. Simpson, a 
daughter of Captain W. Simpson, of St. John ; 
and the only child of this union died in in- 
fancy. Mr. Lordly's first wife died in May, 
1887; and in January, 1893, he married for 
his second wife Esther A. Woodley, daugh- 
ter of John Woodley, of St. John. They have 
one son, Guy Sterling. 

Mr. Lordly belongs to the Canadian Order 
of Foresters. 




LFRED DODGE,* carpenter and 
builder, St. John, was born in the 
parish of Upham, Kings County, 
N. B., in i860, a son of Isaac A. and Charlotte 
Barnard (Upham) Dodge. His paternal grand- 
father was one of the Loyalists of 1783 who 
came to New Brunswick. Isaac A. Dodge 
learned the blacksmith's trade, which he fol- 
lowed for a time in Kings County. At the 
time of the Canadian Confederation he was 
railway station master at Hampton, N. B., and 
was also serving as Magistrate. He became 
a resident of St. John in 1869, and, resuming 
his trade, was engaged in general blacksmith- 
ing until his death, which occurred in 1872. 
His wife, Charlotte, became the mother of nine 
children; namely, Charles Cutler, Francis L., 
George Sylvester, Sarah Elizabeth, James 
Upham, William Allen, Charlotte Havelock, 
Nathaniel, and Alfred. Charles C. resides 
in Fairville, N. B. George S. resides in St. 
John. William A. is a resident of Manches- 
ter, Mass. James Upham Dodge resides in 
the United States. Nathaniel died in child- 



hood. The mother died in 1895. The parents 
were Episcopalians. 

Alfred Dodge accompanied his parents to 
St. John when eight years old, and his educa- 
tion was completed in the schools of this city. 
At the age of nineteen he began to serve a four 
years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade 
with Benjamin Rider, and, having become an 
expert workman, was employed as foreman for 
eight years. Since starting in business for 
himself in 1891 he has erected several fine 
residences, including that of the Rev. H. L. 
McGovvan on Princess Street and that of Mr. 
R. Ratchford. He has also put ujd a number 
of substantial buildings for business purposes, 
and is regarded as an able and reliable builder. 

Mr. Dodge is a member of Albion Lodge, 
F. & A. M. ; New Brunswick Chapter, Royal 
Arch Masons; and De Molay Commandery, 
Knights Templar. He also belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias, being Past Chancellor of 
the lodge in this city. 



AMES ANDERSON,* a representative 
^~^ I citizen of Church Point, N.B., engaged 
in fish packing and lumbering and in 
looking after his varied shipping interests, was 
born in this place on January 21, 185:, his 
parents being John and Margaret (Loggie) 
Anderson. 

His paternal grandfather, James Anderson, 
first, was born in Scotland, but came from that 
country and settled at Church Point among the 
pioneers of this region. He was engaged in 
fishing and in the cultivation of the soil. His 



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wife, in maidenhood a Miss Murray, was a na- 
tive of Prince Edward Island, and born of 
Scottish parents. She was the mother of seven 
children, of whom John, above named, was the 
youngest. 

John Anderson engaged in farming and fish- 
ing with his father in early boyhood, and in 
maturer life became a successful lumberman, 
merchant, and fish packer. His wife, Marga- 
ret, who was the daughter of William Loggie, 
one of the old settlers on the Point, bore him 
three sons — James, William, and John — and 
one daughter, Mary J. The daughter is now 
the wife of Donald Loggie, of Church Point. 
Mr. John Anderson was an Elder in the Pres- 
byterian church. His death occurred in 1874, 
and that of his wife in 1876, she being then 
sixty-two years of age. His sons, James and 
John Anderson, form the firm of J. W. & J. 
Anderson, extensively engaged in milling, lum- 
bering, fish packing, and mercantile business, 
they having succeeded to the business estab- 
lished by Loggie 81 Anderson. 

James Anderson obtained his education in 
the common schools of his native town. Much 
of his time during boyhood was spent in assist- 
ing his father in business, and since the death 
of the latter he has given his undivided atten- 
tion to further developing it. The reputation 
sustained by the firm to-day fully accords with 
the traditions of the old firm, in which honor- 
able dealing was the first consideration. 

In October, 1887, Mr. Anderson was joined 
in marriage with Miss Kate Ellen Peterson, 
daughter of Alfred Peterson, of Chatham. Of 
this union six children have been born. Mr. 



Anderson is a Justice of the Peace. For two 
years he was a member of the County Council. 
He holds membership in the I. O. F. , and is 
financial secretar)' of that organization. He. 
has been Postmaster at Church Point since 
1877. Politically, he is a Liberal. 



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NSFORD W. WILLIAMS,* ship 
and tug-boat owner, St. John, was born 
in Queens County, New Brunswick, 
in 1855, son of James P. and Catherine (Peck) 
Williams. His paternal grandfather, John 
Williams, who came from England during the 
latter part of the last century, was a prosperous 
farmer of Queens County, and for a number of 
years served as a Magistrate. He reared a 
large family, and lived to an advanced age. 

James P. Williams, father of Rainsford W. 
Williams, was a native of Queens County. 
He served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's 
trade, which he followed in Queens County 
until 1872, when he removed to St. John, 
where he is still carrying on business. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Peck, 
was born in Queens County. She became the 
mother of nine children, namely : Ademnel B. ; 
Frederick; Edmund H. ; Linda; Annie; Sam- 
uel C. ; Addie; Rainsford W. , the subject of 
this sketch; and Wesley. Ademnel B. Will- 
iams was learning the machinist's trade, when 
he died at the age of seventeen. Frederick 
and Edmund H., who were in the grocery busi- 
ness in this city, died at the ages of twenty- 
seven and thirty years respectively. Linda 
resides in Boston. Samuel C. and Addie are 



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residents of St. John, and Wesley is an engi- 
neer. Mrs. Cathierine P. Williams died in 
1894. 

Rainsford W. Williams resided in Queens 
County until seventeen years old, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools. In 1S72 he en- 
tered the grocery trade, which was his business 
for the succeeding twenty years; and he en- 
gaged in the shipping business in 1892. He 
owns a substantially built tug-boat, which is 
employed in towing vessels in and out of the 
harbor; and he is also the owner of three 
schooners which are engaged in the coasting 
trade. 

In 1895 Mr. Williams was joined in mar- 
riage with Annie Betts, who was born in the 
vicinity of Newcastle. They have one son, 
Walter R. 

Mr. Williams is a member of the Methodist 
church. 



(sTr LHERT J. LORDLY,* one of the lead- 
fcn ing furniture dealers of St. John, was 

V_- born in Chester, N. S. , in 1826. 
His father, Joseph Lordly, who was a native 
of Italy, being captured by the British while 
on the passage to New Orleans, enlisted in 
the British army and served as a surgeon dur- 
ing the Revolutionary War. After the close 
of the war Joseph Lordly went to Halifax, 
N. S. , where he engaged in business. He sub- 
sequently sold out, and, settling upon a grant 
of land in Chester, resided there for the rest of 
his life. 

Albert J. Lordly first visited St. John when 
a boy in 1835; and, coming here the second 



time in 1839, he entered the employ of his 
brother, Joseph, Jr., a commission merchant 
and auctioneer, with whom he remained about 
seven years. Moving to Fredericton in 1846, 
he carried on the same business there, for five 
years, or until 1851, when he again located in 
St. John and opened a furniture store in the 
old Ward Building on Germain Street. He 
has occupied continuously since 1859 his pres- 
ent salesroom at the corner of Germain and 
Church Streets, and has been identified with 
the furniture business longer than any other 
dealer in the city. Some time in the fifties 
he engaged in the manufacture of furniture, 
establishing a factory on Waterloo Street, 
which was subsequently burned. Resuming 
business on Sidney Street, his factory, ware- 
house, and salesroom were destroyed March 
31, 1863, in another conflagration, which was 
made memorable by the fact that the first 
steam fire-engine ever brought to St. John was 
then used for the first time. He occupied the 
reconstructed building until 1864, when he 
removed his manufactory to Rothesay, and was 
located there until 1869. Forming a copart- 
nership with Jonas Howe, the firm purchased 
the property now known as Howe's furniture 
factory. His factory was again burned in 
1873, and, being rebuilt, was swept away in 
common with all others in that locality during 
the disastrous fire of 1877. Dissolving his 
partnership with Mr. Howe in 187S, he en- 
gaged in manufacturing in the same building 
in which his salesroom is located, remaining 
there some three years, and then removed his 
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bridge, where in iSSi he was visited by his 
old eneni}', which for the fifth time laid his 
factory in ashes. His characteristic persever- 
ance continued unabated; and, resuming man- 
ufacturing in Haley's Building on Broad Street, 
he remained there until leasing the Electric 
Light Building in 1892. In 1S97 he sold his 
manufacturing business to the Lordly Manu- 
facturing Company, in which he has an inter- 
est; and he can now be found at his salesroom 
on Germain Street, where he has been located 
for the past forty years. 

On January i, 1848, Mr. Lordly married for 
his first v^ife the eldest daughter of Charles 
Brennan, who served in the American Revolu- 
tion, and came here with the Loyalists in 
1783. He was a son of Major Matthew Bren- 
nan, who for many years held a responsible 
position in the office of the Provincial Secre- 
tary. She died in 1878; and in 1882 he mar- 
ried for his second wife Mary, the third 
daughter of William Fennety. He is the 
father of si.\ children by his first wife, namely: 
Sterling, manager of the Lordly Manufacturing 
Company; Charles, manager of Manchester, 
Robertson & Allison's Furniture Department; 
Walter A., who manages the upholstery de- 
partment for the same concern; Arthur, a 
salesman for the above-named firm ; Henry I^., 
a graduate of Cornell University, manager of 
the American flight Company in the Maritime 
Provinces and in charge of the salt works on 
Prince Edward Island; and Georgiana, wife of 
George Fred Fisher, of St. John. 

Mr. Lordly has taken an important part in 
developing the industrial resources of the city. 



and was formerly a director of the Mechanics' 
Institute. 




LLEN O. EARLE,* barrister, of St. 
John, is a son of Sylvester Zobeskie 
Earle, Jr. His mother was in 
maidenhood Miss Catherine McGill Otty, a 
daughter of Captain Allen Otty, R.N., and 
a grand-daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Trans 
Crookshanks, who were Loyalists. Mr. Earle 
is a descendant of Justice Earle (second son 
of .Sylvester Earle), who came to New Bruns- 
wick from New Jersey at the close of the 
American Revolutionary War. Justice Earle 
held a Lieutenant's commission (dated New 
York, December 18, 1781) from Sir Henry 
Clinton in the New Jersey Volunteers, under 
General Skinner. His brother Edward, who 
held a Captain's commission, came with him, 
but afterward returned to New York. After 
coming to St. John, Justice Earle drew a city 
lot, and afterward went to Grand Lake, Queens 
County, N. B. He was married in New York 
to Annie Lawrence by Bishop Moore. Their 
son, Sylvester Zobeskie P^arle, M.D. , late of 
Kings County, married Maria J-Iayburn. 



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HOMAS B. BLAIR,* manager of the 
New Brunswick branch of the Bank of 
Nova Scotia and a highly esteemed citizen of 
St. John, is the youngest son of Robert and 
Mildred (Anderson) Blair. Robert Blair was 
born in Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, in 
1820, but came to this country with his mother 
when about fifteen years of age, his father, 



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William Blair, having died. The mother, who 
was a very superior woman, on arriving in New 
Brunswick, settled in St. John. Here Robert 
soon became self-supporting, finding employ- 
ment at various kinds of mechanical work, and 
after a time becoming superintendent in the 
saw-mill of the late John Robertson. This 
position he filled for many years, and during 
the greater part of the time was also connected 
with the shipping interests. After giving up 
the mill work he lived in comparative retire- 
ment for a time, doing little except acting as 
agent for a number of ships. Eventually he 
was elected a director of the St. John Gas 
Company, and through his efficient service in 
that capacity brought the stock from a merely 
nominal value to a market value of a hundred 
and forty per cent. After the great fire of 
1877 he was elected president of the company, 
which through his efforts became one of the 
most solid business corporations in Canada. 
He continued as manager until a few years 
before his death, which ocurred in 1894. He 
was also a director of the William Parks Cot- 
ton Mills Company (Limited). His wife, who 
was a daughter of William Anderson, formerly 
of Scotland, was born in the north of Ireland. 
She was the mother of eight childien, six of 
whom are living, three of her sons being now 
engaged in the banking business in St. John. 
Thomas B. Blair, after attending the gram- 
mar school at St. John, entered the employ of 
the Bank of Nova Scotia in September, 1880. 
Having been promoted through various depart- 
ments, he was in i8Sg made manager of one of 
the branch banks, and, after serving in Nova 



Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward 
Island successively, was placed in charge, on 
July, 1894, of the St. John bank. Here he 
has shown himself thoroughly efficient, and 
under his management the bank has become 
one of the strongest financial institutions in 
the Province. 



-JOSEPH SUTTON CLARK,* a well- 
known druggist of St. George, Charlotte 
County, N.B., is also actively identified 
with other business enterprises of the town. 
He was born September i, 1865, in Carleton, 
St. John County, a son of Joseph Saunders 
Clark. 

John Clark, his paternal grandfather, was 
born, reared, and educated in Yarmouth, N. S. 
When a young man he established an extensive 
business in shipping and lumbering; and this 
he managed alone until his second son, Joseph 
S. , who eventually succeeded him, was old 
enough to assume its charge. He married 
Helen Hunter, whose father was at one time 
Sheriff of Yarmouth; and they had a large 
family of children, as follows: George Hunter, 
born in St. John, N.B. , who married Annie 
Cole and has four children ; two daughters that 
died in infancy; Joseph Saunders; the Rev. 
J. A. Clark, who was educated in Sackville, 
N.B., and Lima University, N.Y., and is now 
a Methodist minister, and who married Lizzie 
Robinson, who died leaving three children ; 
William Walker, now Chief of Police at St. 
John, N.B. , who married Kate Cleary and has 
two children — Edith, wife of Dr. Steeves, 



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and Pauline, wife of Harry Scovil ; James 
Alfred, now one of the island revenue officers 
at the custom-house in St. John, who married 
Helen Ham and has three children; and 
Thomas Robinson, now connected with the 
police force of Boston, Mass., who married 
Anna Tilton. John Clark's parents were Jo- 
seph Saunders and Catherine (Wetmore) Clark, 
both of whom spent their entire lives in Yar- 
mouth, N. S. 

Joseph Saunders Clark, father of Joseph Sut- 
ton Clark, was born in Carleton, St. John 
County, and received his collegiate education 
at the college at Sackville. After his gradua- 
tion he started in business with his father as 
a shipper of groceries and as a lumber manu- 
facturer and dealer. After the death of his 
father, who passed away at the early age of 
thirty-two, he succeeded to the entire business, 
which he managed most ably for many years. 
He was highly respected as a citizen, and was 
a member for several years of Carleton Lodge, 
F. & A. M. In his religious belief he was 
a Methodist. He married Jennie, daughter of 
James Jackson, of Halifax, N. S. ; and they 
had two children : John Clarence, senior mem- 
ber of the late firm of Clark, Kerr & Thorne, 
hardware merchants in .St. John; and Joseph 
Sutton. 

Joseph Sutton Clark received his early edu- 
cation in the common schools of St. John, and 
at the age of sixteen years began a four years' 
apprenticeship at the drug business, serving 
the first two years with W. C. R. Allen and 
the last two with Mr. McDermod. Passing 
his final examinations in 1886 and receiving 



a first class diploma, he settled immediately 
in St. George, where before he had celebrated 
the twenty-first anniversary of his birth he 
established himself as a druggist; and since 
then he has built up a most flourishing trade 
in that line. A few years ago Mr. Clark, with 
characteristic energy, started a fish business at 
Lepreaux, Charlotte County, where he also 
built a sardine factory and started a canning 
industry. A man of keen foresight and good 
judgment, he has met with more than ordinary 
success in all of his undertakings, and is rec- 
ognized as an able business man by his fellow- 
townsmen. Politically, he is a Liberal and an 
advocate of free trade. He is a member of St. 
George Lodge, F. & A. M., and of the Chap- 
ter No. 12, R. A. M. He attends the Meth- 
odist church. 

Mr. Clark married Helen, daughter of A. 
Judson and Adelia Seeley, of St. George; and 
they have three children — Joseph Leonard, 
Helen, and Jackson Sutton. 



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ILLIAM WYSE,* commission mer- 
chant and dealer in furniture, a 
prominent business man of Chatham, N.B. , 
was born in Stirling County, Scotland, in the 
town of Grangemouth, on February 12, 1833, 
son of Henry and Mary (Walker) Wyse. 

Henry Wyse emigrated in 1834, arriving in 
the town of Douglas, N. B., on May 12. He 
engaged in the bakery business there a few 
months, and in the spring of the following 
year moved to Chatham and settled on Water 
Street, where he carried on a bakery and a 



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hotel for some five years. Removing to Duke 
Street at the end of that time, he- continued 
the same line of business for the next five 
years. He then closed out the hotel, but he 
managed the bakery as long as he lived. For 
some time he was Captain of the Volunteer 
Fire Company. His death occurred when he 
was about eighty-one years of age. His wife 
survived him four years, and died in 1891, at 
the age of eighty-four. They had eight chil- 
dren — Mary, William, Margaret, Henry, John, 
Andrew, James, and Annie. Mary, the eldest 
child, was born in Scotland in 1832. She 
married Alexander Loudoun, a well-to-do mer- 
chant of Chatham. Margaret, who was born 
in 1837, married Thomas Phillips, a black- 
smith of Chatham. Henry is a baker, and re- 
sides in Newcastle. He married for his first 
wife Mary Ann Nicholson and for his second 
wife a Miss McMasters. John, who is a baker 
by occupation and lives in Boston, married 
Elizabeth Rennie, of Chatham. Andrew, also 
a baker, is married and is living in Chicago, 
III. James is engaged in mercantile business 
in Chicago. Annie died in 1869, at the age 
of twenty-one years. 

William Wyse was brought up in Chatham, 
and received his education in the public 
schools here under the instruction of Mr. 
James Miller. In 185 1 he went into a mer- 
cantile establishment, where he remained for 
about three years and a half. The firm then 
failed, and he was thrown out of employment. 
He made use of the opportunity to travel 
through the States, and after his return he 
spent a number of years in the employ of 



Alexander Loudoun. He subsequently went 
to Fox Island and engaged for a while in canr 
ning and preserving salmon. Later on he 
went into business on his own account as 
a dealer in dry goods and groceries. He also 
canned lobsters, which he exported to the 
British market. At the time of the agitation 
over the cjuestion of confederation he took an 
active part in politics, and was a strong sup- 
porter of the late John A. McDonald. He 
held the office of Inspector of Fisheries under 
Mr. McDonald's administration, from 1868 to 
1890, but, having a dispute with Minister 
Tupper in regard to the payment of a small 
sum to a fishery warden and writing indepen- 
dently about the matter, he was dismissed from 
his office. Up to that date he continued in 
the grocery business. In 1891 he established 
the furniture business, which he has since 
conducted successfully. Mr. Wyse is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic fraternity and of the Royal 
Arcanum. In 1886 and in 1898 he was Com- 
missioner of Roads, and during his term of 
office did much to beautify the roads of the 
town. He has also taken a strong interest in 
the public park, and for twenty-five years has 
exerted his influence toward making it one of 
the most beautiful spots in New Brunswick, as 
it undoubtedly is to-day. 

Mr. Wyse was first married to Elizabeth 
Marshall, a sister of Robert Marshall, of St. 
John. She died in 1864, having been the 
mother of two children, both of whom died in 
infancy. In 1865 Mr. Wyse married Emma 
Peters, daughter of Charles J. Peters. Of this 
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ter, namely: Clifford \V. , who is in the poultry 
business at Black River; Bernard W., who is 
a book-keeper in Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Edward B., 
who -is an electrician and resides in Chatham; 
and Florence. Mr. Wyse has been a trustee 
of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church ever since 
its establishment. 



-it^OBERT KERR,*- who spent the clos- 
I i~^ ing years of his long and useful life 
^^-^' in St. Andrews, N.B. , retired from 
actix'e pursuits, died at his late home in June, 
iSgo. He was born in County Antrim, Ire- 
land, in 1S17, a son of the late John Kerr. 

John Kerr emigrated from County Antrim, 
Ireland, where he was reared, to New Bruns- 
wick, and with his family located at first in 
St. Andrews. Soon afterward he bought un- 
improved land in Bocabec, about fifteen miles 
from St. Andrews, and, building up a good 
homestead, was there engaged in general farm- 
ing until his death. He was a member of the 
Presbyterian church, and in politics was a Lib- 
eral and a Free Trader. He married Mary 
Stewart, who bore him seven children. 

Robert Kerr was but a little boy when he 
accompanied his parents to America, the long 
and tedious voyage being made in a sailing- 
vessel. After leaving school he was engaged 
in agricultural pursuits on the old homestead, 
and also learned the trade of a carriage-builder, 
which he carried on very successfully until his 
removal to St. Andrews in 1879. A man of 
much force of character, industrious and pru- 
dent, he accumulated a competency, and spent 



his last days in the quiet enjoyment of the 
fruit of his early years of hard labor. He was 
an active member of the Church of England. 
In his politics he was a Liberal and an ardent 
believer in free trade. 

Mr. Kerr married Mary Jane, daughter of 
John and Mary Herbison. Mrs. Kerr was 
born in Ireland, but in 185S emigrated to St. 
Stephen, N.B., where she lived until her 
marriage, when she settled in Bocabec. Mr. 
and Mrs. Kerr reared four children, namely: 
Mary, who lives with her widowed mother in 
St. Andrews; Jennie Stewart, who graduated 
at the Normal School in h>edericton, and is 
now a teacher at St. Andrews; Margaret Ann, 
also a graduate of the Fredericton Normal 
School, who is now teaching at Elmsville, 
N. B. ; and Aladia Eliza, a music teacher in 
St. Andrews. 




LEXANDER A. WATSON,* book- 
seller and stationer, St. John, was 
born in Selkirk, Scotland, Septem- 
ber 12, 1828, son of John Watson. In early 
life he was employed in the manufacture of 
tweeds; and, emigrating to America in 1854, 
he located in St. John. He was engaged in 
various kinds of business here until 1877, in 
which year he entered his present line of trade 
in company with his sons, and shortly after- 
ward suffered a total loss by the conflagration 
of that year. The firm reopened on Union 
Street, but later moved to the store at the 
corner of Union and Charlotte Streets, where 
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Mr. Watson married Agnes Sterling, a na- 
tive of Galashiels, Scotland. Two of their 
children died in infancy. The living are: 
Agnes, John A., William G., Margaret H.; 
Susan E. , Annie, Clara, Robert A., and 
Oscar. William G. Watson is in company 
with his father. Margaret H. is the wife of 
John B. Andrews, of St. John. Susan E. is 
the wife of William F. MacDonald, of New 
York. Annie married Frederick C. Melick, 
of St. John. Clara and Robert are residing 
in this city. Oscar is assistant night manager 
of the Associated Press in New York City, 
and also a medical student at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. 

John A. Watson was born in 1854. He was 
reared in this city, and completed his educa- 
tion under the guidance of a Mr. Miller. 
From 1870 to 1878 he was employed in the 
West India goods business; and then, estab- 
lishing himself in the same line, he continued 
in trade until selling out in 1882. For the 
past fifteen years he has been engaged in the 
lithograph business with the Maritime Litho- 
graph Company. Mr. Watson is one of the 
most prominent Masons in the city, and be- 
longs to Union Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Carlton 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; the Council, 
Commandery, and other bodies subordinate to 
the Consistory; and has taken the thirty- 
second degree, Scottish Rite. He is Past 
Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of 
New Hrunswick, F. & A. M. ; Past Deputy 
High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons, of which he is now Grand Secretary; 
is Grand Master of the Grand Council, Royal 



and Select Masters ; is a member of the Royal 
Order of Scotland and other bodies connected 
with the fraternity. He is Past Chancellor of 
New Brunswick Lodge, No. i. Knights of 
Pythias, the first lodge of that order organized 
in the Dominion, and a past officer of the Uni- 
formed Rank. He also belongs to the Inde- 
pendent Order of Foresters and the St. 
Andrews Society, and was one of the organ- 
izers of the Salvage Corps. 



'J^YAMES DE WOLFE SPURR,* a lead- 
ing citizen of St. John, N. B. , was born 
at Round Hill, Annapolis, N. S., in 
1820. His ancestry is carefully traced in 
the record'given below of the Spurr family of 
Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal, kindly fur- 
nished by a member of that family: — ■ 

"The extensive improvements which the 
P>ench traders had made on the borders of the 
Annapolis River became, after their expulsion 
from the country, an object of attention to the 
people of the Old Colony; and in 1764 and 
1765 five hundred of these removed thither and 
obtained a grant of the township of Annapolis, 
where they were soon joined by a number of 
others. Among them was the head or founder 
of the Spurr family of Nova Scotia. 

"From reliable sources it appears that there 
were two brothers who originally came from 
England to Boston, Mass. One of them, 
Michael Spurr, came to Annapolis Royal, 
N. S. , about the year 1764 or 1765. He was 
married; and his eldest son and daughter, it 
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Boston. They were Abraham Spurr and Mrs. 
Barteaux, and both resided with their parents 
for some years on the Spnrr farm near Annapo- 
lis. The daughter after her marriage removed 
to Bear River. Abraham Spurr was the grand- 
father of Edward, Robert, and Job Sears, all 
well-known citizens of St. John. About the 
year iSio or earlier he removed to Clements, 
some four or five miles from Digby. His wife 
was of French descent, a Miss I.e Caimy, 
whose sister was married to the elder Judge 
Ritchie, father to Chief Justice Ritchie. 
Abraham Spurr died about the year 1817. 
Mr. Edward Sears, of St. John, has a full 
record of his children, from which it appears 
that of a large family there are now living the 
following named: Mrs. B. Hunt; Mrs. Sales; 
and Abram Spurr, Jr., the latter on the farm at 
Clement. 

"Other children were born to Michael Spurr 
after his removal to Annapolis, his sons being, 
besides Abraham, already named, Michael, Jr., 
Sheffey, and Thomas. The last-named, who 
was the youngest, resided during his life at 
Round Hill, a few miles from Annapolis. 
The daughters were, besides Mrs. Barteaux : 
Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Fritz, and Mrs. Sent. 

"Michael Spurr, Jr., had three sons by his 
first wife — Isaiah, Elijah, and William. Of 
these, Elijah lived many years, and in the end 
died at St. John. One of his daughters mar- 
ried a Mr. Robinson; another married a Mr. 
Frost, master carpenter and owner of the Park 
Hotel; and a third married the Rev. Mr. Addy, 
pastor of the Methodist church at Bridgetown, 
N. S. By his second wife Michael Spurr had 



three sons and three daughters. Of the sons 
John died in 1822, and James went South and 
was never heard from again. The daughters 
were living and residing in Granville or 
Clement in August, 1863." 

James De Wolfe Spurr's father was a son 
of Thomas Spurr, youngest son of the original 
Michael, this making him a great-grandson 
of the founder of the family. His mother, 
Amelia, was a daughter of James DeWolf, of 
Bristol, I-iverpool, N.S., who came from Bris- 
tol, R.I. At the age of fifteen Mr. Spurr 
came to St. John to enter the office of Ratch- 
ford & Surgin as merchant clerk, and in 1842 
his active business life began. In 1844 he 
formed the copartnership of Allison & Spurr, 
which continued for eleven years. Early in 
the history of this copartnership Mr. Spurr 
was the prospector of the first extensive steam 
saw-mill built in New Brunswick, a model 
mill for many subsequently built. The ships 
built here for his firm were notable for their 
capacity and excellent adaptation to the cotton 
and Australian trades. From 1848 to 1855 
Mr. Spurr's business residence was Liverpool, 
lingland ; but at the end of that time he re- 
turned to St. John to take an active part as 
principal shareholder in the development of 
the Albert mines, which were successfully 
operated for twenty years. Mr. Spurr retired 
from active business operations in 1S78. He 
was president of the St. John Board of Trade 
in 1890 and of St. George Society in 1892. 
He has been an ardent sportsman, and from 
1880 to 1893 was chief Game Commissioner of 
New Brunswick. He has been unusually gen- 



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erous in sharing with his friends his salmon 
pools at Grand Falls, famous for their excel- 
lent fishing, and in his hospitality at his com- 
manding and beautifully situated fishing lodge, 
situated at a convenient distance from the 
pools. 

Mr. Spurr married in 1845 Eliza, daughter 
of John Crane, of Economy, N. S. In 1S76 
he married Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. 
Alfred Whitman, of Annapolis, and in 1886 
Hannah, daughter of John Bennet, widow of 
James Robertson, late Collector of Customs 
of St. John. 



/^TTdEON HEVNOR,* coppersmith, St. 
\mJ_ John, was born in Ireland in 1837. 
His father, Harvey Hevnor, who was born in 
Ireland, of German ancestry, emigrated to New 
Brunswick about the year 1845, accompanied 
by his family, and located in St. John. Sub- 
sequently Harvey moved to the United States 
and settled upon a farm in the immediate 
vicinity of Boston, where he resided for the 
rest of his life. 

At the age of fifteen years Gideon Hevnor 
began to serve a six years' apprenticeship at 
the coppersmith's trade, which he afterward 
followed as a journeyman and as superintend- 
ent of a shop. Returning to .St. John in 1S73, 
he established himself in business as a general 
coppersmith, and from that time forward has 
conducted a large business in mill and steam- 
boat work, plumbing, soda-water apparatus, etc. 
His is the only establishment in New Bruns- 
wick that is devoted solely to copper work. 



and his business extends all over the Maritime 
Provinces and into Canada. 

In 1867 Mr. Hevnor was united in marriage 
with Eliza Needham, a native of Ireland. 
Mrs. Hevnor is a daughter of George Needham 
and a sister of the Needham brothers, well- 
known evangelists. Mr. and Mrs. Hevnor 
have had six children — Susan Jane, George 
Albert, Sarah Gertrude, Gideon Needham, 
Benjamin Frederick, and Alice Elizabeth. 
Susan Jane died at the age of seven, George 
Albert at that of eight, and Sarah Gertrude at 
that of seventeen years. Gideon Needham 
Hevnor, who is in business with his father, 
married Alice Stearns; and his children are 
Gideon Henry and Helen Gertrude. Benja- 
min Frederick is also in business with his 
father. Mr. Hevnor belongs to the Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of 
the Congregational church, which he has served 
as trustee. 



FREDERICK WATSON,* mer- 
chant and ship-owner, St. John, was 
born in that city in 1856, son of James 
and Hannah (Purdy) Watson. His paternal 
great-grandfather came to New Brunswick with 
the Loyalists in 1783, and was a farmer. Mr. 
Watson's grandfather, John Watson, who was 
a pilot and master of vessels on the St. John 
River during his active years, died at the age 
of seventy-eight. His wife was also of Loyal- 
ist descent, and they reared a family of seven 
children. James Watson was born in Queens 
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started in the general mercantile business on 
his own account in St. John in 1854; and in 
connection with this he was extensively en- 
gaged in shipping, owning a large fleet of 
coasting-vessels. He was an active member 
of the Baptist church. His wife, Hannah 
Purdy, was a daughter of Jonathan Purdy. 
They were the parents of twelve children, four 
of whom died in infancy, and one daughter 
died at the age of fifteen. Among those who 
still survive are: J. Frederick, ICmma, James, 
and P'rank. Emma is the wife of Charles S. 
Phillips, of St. John. James and P^rank are 
in business with their brother. The parents 
are no longer living. J. Frederick Watson 
was educated in the schools of St. John. Upon 
leaving school he entered the employ of his 
father, and after the latter's death succeeded 
to the business in company with his brothers. 
They are now carrying on a profitable enter- 
prise, and control a fleet of ten vessels. Mr. 
Watson is a member of the Independent Order 
of Odd P'ellows. 



tT^OBERT ALLISON BORDEN* is an 
I r\ influential citizen and one of the lead- 
^*-^ ing lawyers of Moncton, N. B. He 
was born at Avonport, Kings County, N. S. , 
February 3, 1845, on the old Borden home- 
stead, which is still owned and occupied by 
his father, George N. Borden. He comes of 
pioneer stock, his great-grandfather. Perry 
Borden, who was born and brought up in New 
Jersey, having removed when a young man to 
Nova Scotia, where he (Perry) received from 



the government a grant of land that had been 
taken from the expelled Acadians. He cleared 
a large farm, and became one of the leading 
men of his community. Perry Borden was 
twice married. His first wife, whose name is 
unknown, died in early life, leaving two sons. 
He subsequently married a Miss Ells, who 
bore him nine sons, of whom Joshua, the 
grandfather of Robert A., was the third in 
order of birth. 

Joshua Borden was born in Avonport, N. S. , 
in 1774; and his years of activity were spent 
chiefly in tilling the soil. On the homestead 
which he developed from heavily timbered land 
he spent his wedded life, and there died in 
1857, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. 
Of his union with Catherine P'uUer three chil- 
dren were born, of whom two — George N. and 
Hiram — survive. The latter married Mary 
Card, of Hantsport, N. S., and has six children 
— William, Amanda, Bessie, P^lfrida, Au- 
gusta, and Minnie. Both Joshua and Cather- 
ine were members of the Methodist church, 
and in pdlitics the former was a Liberal. 

George N. Borden succeeded to the owner- 
ship of the old homestead on which he was 
born, and is still industriously engaged in its 
management. A man of sterling traits of char- 
acter, honest and upright in all his dealings, 
he is held in high respect by his fellow-men, 
and is numbered among the leading farmers 
and citizens of Avonport. He married Miriam 
S., daughter of Joseph Crane, of that place. 
She died at the age of fifty years, leaving three 
children: Robert Allison, the subject of this 
brief sketch; Byron C, who in June, 1880, 



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married Alice, daughter of William Bluck, of 
Hamilton, Bermuda, and who has two children 
— Gladys A. and Elaine Allison, twins, born 
December i8, 1887; and Lila, wife of Reuben 
S. Smith, of Somerville, Mass., who has two 
children — Marian and Donald B. 

Robert Allison Borden received his element- 
ary education in the common schools of Avon- 
port, N. S, , after which he went to Lower 
Horton, N. S. , where he attended Mr. Patter- 
son's private school, called Accaci Villa. He 
subsequently graduated at Sackville College, 
Sackville, N.B. , with the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts, and immediately after began the study 
of law with the firm of Wettmore & Barker. 
The members of this firm were prominent 
lawyers. One of them, Mr. Wettmore, be- 
came a judge of the Supreme Court of New 
Brunswick; while the other, Mr. Barker, is at 
the present time a judge of that court. At 
the end of three years of steady application to 
his law studies Mr. Borden, on March 8, 1873, 
was admitted as attorney, and opened an office 
in connection with C. A. Holstead, and under 
the firm name of Holstead & 15orden practised 
law in Moncton for four years. For several 
years thereafter Mr. Borden was in partnership 
with Henry Atkinson, and subsequently con- 
tinued his professional labors as head of the 
firm of Borden & Simonds, of which C. A. 
Simonds was the junior member. Since the 
dissolution of that firm Mr. Borden has carried 
on business alone, and has now an extensive 
and remunerative practice. He has been asso- 
ciated with different corporations and com- 
panies, having been solicitor and secretary of 



the Moncton Water and Gas Works ; solicitor 
for the Moncton Sugar Refinery Company and 
for the Moncton Cotton Works; and at the 
present time is solicitor, secretary, and treas- 
urer of the Moncton Electric Railway Com- 
pany. For a number of terms after the incor- 
poration of the city he served as City Solicitor 
and City Clerk. In politics he is a Liberal 
Conservative. 

Mr. Borden was married October 11, 1876, 
to Annie, daughter of William Smith, of Sus- 
sex, N. B., and has two children — Lila R. and 
Sarah A. Mr. and Mrs. Borden attend the 
services of the Church of England, of which 
Mrs. Borden is a communicant. 



(©Tr-LEXANDER GIBSON,* of Marysville, 
^Sl York County, a leading lumber and 
V — - cotton manufacturer and one of the 
largest mill-owners in Canada, is a native of 
New Brunswick, having been born in Charlotte 
County. He began industrial life without 
other capital than a strong constitution, a de- 
termined will, a good capacity for work, and 
an eminently keen and practical mind. After 
working a while in the mills of Milltown, 
Charlotte County, for a dollar a day, he started 
in business for himself in that place with a 
small capital, but soon transferred his opera- 
tions to Lepreaux. The lumbermen of that 
section prior to his time had met with repeated 
failure; but he won success, and retired from 
the river with a large amount of money. 
Then, more than thirty years ago, he came to 
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erty, including seven thousand acres of splen- 
didly timbered lunil, all together valued at one 
hundred and thirty thousand dollars, from 
Robert Rankin & Co. 

On commencing operations on the river, Mr. 
Gibson saw at once that the principal obstruc- 
tion to be overcome was a large boom held by 
a mile or two of piers. lie immediately com- 
menced the construction of dams, and increased 
the river facilities so much that no driver has 
ever yet been "hung up" on the stream since 
he took possession. He also had his lands 
carefully explored and surveyed. Some of 
these he purchased at public auction from the 
crown ; others he bought from the New Bruns- 
wick and Nova Scotia Land Company, and he 
has thus acquired all the most valuable land 
(nearly one hundred and seventy thousand 
acres) on the river. Since he came to Marys- 
ville he has cut fully six hundred million feet 
of logs into deals on the Nashvvaak River. He 
has also a mill at Blackville, on the Canada 
Eastern Railway, that employs thirty men and 
cuts about five million feet of lumber annu- 
ally, a property which he bought from the 
Messrs. Farley. The deals are brought by rail 
to Gibson, and there, with the product of the 
Marysville mill, are placed upon lighters spe- 
cially built by Mr. Gibson, and towed to St. 
John, whence the large lumber is sent to Eng- 
land and the shingles and laths are shipped 
to the United States. Mr. Gibson employs 
thirty men at Blackville in lumbering, ninety 
men at Marysville in the saw-mill, sixty-five 
in the lath-mill, and thirty-seven in the new 
shingle-mil], which is one of the finest in 



Canada. At the boom there are twenty-five 
men and on the stream in the spring about 
three hundred and eighty men in his service. 
His lumber-mills are fully equipped with the 
latest improvements in labor saving machinery. 

The fame of Mr. Gibson's cotton-mill has 
gone throughout Canada and beyond, it being 
the largest single mill in the Dominion. It 
employs at present five hundred hands, but 
could accommodate two and a half times as 
many. It was built from bricks manufactured 
by him within a stone's throw of the structure, 
and at its completion in 1885 was fitted with 
the latest machinery, some of which has 
already been replaced by that of more modern 
construction. It is lighted by electricity from 
Mr. Gibson's own dynamos; and near by is 
a splendidly equipped machine shop, where 
machines are built or repaired by skilled work- 
men. The whole plant is amply protected 
against fire by hydrants or pipes and an 
abundant supply of hose. English experts re- 
cently declared that this mill surpassed in its 
equipments the vast majority of English cotton 
factories. The brickyard is still in operation, 
and keeps from twenty to thirty men busy. 

To the large number of wooden tenement- 
houses built for his workmen Mr. Gibson has 
added nearly fifty two-story brick houses, each 
to accommodate two families, besides several 
dozen large boarding-houses, so that probably 
the operators in no other factory town in Can- 
ada are so well housed as those in Marysville. 
Not a drop of intoxicating liquor has ever been 
sold in the place, and in other ways the best 
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guarded by him to whom the town and its 
industries owe their birth. The town has had 
a steady growth, and is still growing. The 
two large stores and a fine hotel were built by 
Mr. Gibson. The Methodist church, with its 
fine interior finish, handsome frescoes, and 
stained-glass windows, was also erected by him 
at a cost of upward of fifty thousand dollars. 
The organ placed in it was his gift, and the 
salary of the organist is paid by him. He 
also gave the site for the Anglican church. 
In the town there are also three other churches 
— ^ the Baptist, the Free Communion Baptist, 
and the Reformed Baptist. There are also fine 
schools, a public hall, a public skating rink, 
and a brass band of twenty pieces. Various 
fraternal organizations, including the Odd Fel- 
lows, the Foresters, and the Sons of Temper- 
ance, are also represented by lodges. In addi- 
tion to his other benefactions, Mr. Gibson has 
presented to the town a new public hall, a 
large public library, and a fine site for a trot- 
ting park. It has been the rule of his life to 
provide his employees with every possible 
facility for comfort, culture, and legitimate 
amusement. The steel railway bridge across 
the river, the Canadian Eastern Railway, and 
the Gibson branch of the Canadian Pacific 
Railway, all owe their existence in a large 
measure to his energy and public spirit. 

Although past threescore and ten, Mr. Gib- 
son is in perfect health, due to his splendid 
constitution and to the fact that he lives 
wisely and observes the laws of temperance 
and regularity. He is always at his post, and 
will tolerate no neglect of duty on the part of 



those around him. A man of kindly and gen- 
erous impulses, many persons and causes have 
profited by his benevolence without knowing 
the source. When he has done with this life, 
his monument will be the town that his genius 
called into existence, and the record of a life 
of honorable toil and service to his fellow-men. 
These few facts in regard to his life and 
career were largely obtained through the kind- 
ness of Mr. A. M. fielding, of the St. John 
Daily Sun. 



JpmWARD T. TRITES,* Paymaster of the 

X . Intercolonial Railway Company, is a 

well-known and highly esteemed citizen of 
Moncton, N. B. A son of Abel G. Trites, he 
was born on the home farm in Petitcodiac, 
N. B. , in 1844. He comes of substantial Eng- 
lish stock, his paternal grandfather, Lewis 
Trites, having been born and brought up in 
England. When a young man Lewis emi- 
grated to America, and, having located in New 
Brunswick, received from the Imperial Govern- 
ment a tract of wild land at what was then 
called "The Bend," but is now more familiarly 
known as Moncton. A man of great enterprise 
and energy, he cleared a large portion of his 
grant of land, on which he was subsequently 
engaged in tilling the soil until his demise. 
Of his eight children, three are now living — 
Abel G. , Truman, and Eliza. 

Abel G. Trites was born in Moncton four- 
score years ago, the third child of his jDarents. 
During his boyhood and youth he took part in 
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of agriculture. When ready to settle in life, 
he removed to Petitcodiac, where he bought 
land, and continued in the pursuit in which he 
was reared. As a farmer and stock raiser he 
has been very successful, and now, with his 
aged wife, is spending his declining days in 
comfort on the homestead which he has built 
up by years of unceasing toil. His wife, 
whose maiden name was Sarah Pugsley, was 
born in Penobscoan, N. B., a daughter of 
Daniel Pugsley. She bore him nine children, 
of whom five survive; namely, Edward T. , 
Daniel, Herbert, Beresley, and Mary. Both 
]3arents are members of the Baptist church. 
The father has always been a firm supporter of 
the principles advanced by the Conservative 
l^arty. 

Edward T. Trites spent his early life on the 
parental homestead, and was educated in the 
public schools of Petitcodiac. Having no par- 
ticular desire to spend his life in farming, he 
learned telegraphy when young, and soon after 
secured a situation with the Intercolonial Rail- 
road Company as telegraph operator and station 
agent at Petitcodiac. Proving himself capable 
and trustworthy in every respect, the company 
subsequently transferred him to the station at 
St. John, of which he had charge for seven 
years. In 1874 he was again promoted, being 
made paymaster of the road, with his head- 
quarters at Moncton, where he has since re- 
sided. 

Mr. Trites has been twice married. His 
first wife, in maidenhood Miss Georgie Barn- 
hill, died at the age of twenty-four, leaving no 
children. He subsequently married Miss 



Susan Leavitt, by whom he has had eight chil- 
dren, of whom six are living; namely, Edward, 
Lewis, Mabel, Clifford, Helen, and Morris. 
Mr. Trites is a communicant of the Episcopal 
church, while Mrs. Trites is a member of the 
Methodist church. 



M 



ANIEL WATSON NEVVCOMB,* 
superintendent of the branch lines 
of the Atlantic division of the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway, has headquarters at 
Woodstock, N.B. He was born May 3, 1863, 
at Weymouth, N. S. , son of Charlton New- 
comb, and is the descendant of an early pio- 
neer of that section of the Provinces. 

The founder of the New comb family in 
America was Captain Andrew Newcomb, the 
master of a sailing vessel, who came, it is 
thought, from the west of England. In Bos- 
ton, Mass., in 1663, he married for his second 
wife Grace, widow of William Ricks. His 
signature to his will, which is on file at the 
Registry of Probate for Suffolk County, Mas- 
sachusetts, shows him to have been a good 
penman. Mr. Newcomb's line of descent from 
this early ancestor is: Andrew,' Andrew, "^ 
Simon, 3 John,'' John, 5 Joseph,'' Daniel Webs- 
ter, ^ Charlton'*. For this and the following 
records we are indebted mainly to the New- 
comb Family Genealogy. 

His son, Lieutenant Andrew- Newcomb, was 
born about 1640, and in July, 1666, was a resi- 
dent of New England, probably living at or 
near the Isles of Shoals, where he was a Con- 
stable in 1 67 1. In 1675 he settled at Edgar- 



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town, on Martha's Vineyard, where he died 
when about sixty-five years old. He was Fore- 
man of Jury in 1681, Foreman of the Grand 
Jury in March, 1704, and on April 13, 1691, 
was chosen Lieutenant, and placed in command 
of fortification on the island. 

Simon Newcomb ^ was born about 1666, 
probably at Kittery, Me., and four years later 
went with his parents to Appledore Island, 
where he lived until the removal of the family 
to Edgartown. In 1713 he settled with his 
wife and children in Lebanon, Conn., where 
he resided until his death, January 20, 1744. 
His wife, Deborah, whom he married about 
1687, died June 16, 1756, in the ninety-sec- 
ond year of her age. 

Deacon John Newcomb,-* who was born in 
Martha's Vineyard, Mass., about 1688, mar- 
ried, September 23, 1709, Alice, who was 
born in 1689, at the Vineyard, daughter of 
Jonathan Lurnbert. They removed to Leb- 
anon, Conn., where he was admitted to the 
First Church on March 3, 171 5, and his wife 
on June 8, 1718. Upon the organization of 
the Second Church, he joined it, and became 
its first Deacon, a position which he held until 
his removal to Cornwallis, N.S., in 1760. 
He took the freeman's oath at Lebanon, and 
was elected Surveyor of Highways in 1725, 
and Selectman in 1744. He died in Corn- 
wallis, N.S., February 22, 1765, and his 
widow passed away at the same place January 
8, 1767. 

John Newcomb, 5 born July 29, 1720, in 
what is now called Columbia, Conn., but then 
known as Lebanon, received by gift in 1745 a 



part of the parental homestead, a farm of fifty 
acres. On June 5, 1747, he married Mercy, 
daughter of Timothy Barnaby, of Plymouth, 
Mass. Timothy Barnaby was a son of Stephen 
and Ruth (Morton) Barnaby, and grandson of 
James Barnaby, whose wife, Lydia, was a 
daughter of the early Plymouth Colonist, 
Robert Bartlett, who came over in the "Ann " 
in 1623. In 1760 John Newcomb and his 
father and their wives sold their lands for the 
sum of five hundred and fifty pounds, and re- 
moved to Cornwallis, N. S., where they arrived 
prior to October 12 of that year. He was one 
of the original grantees of that town in 1761, 
and appears to have been a leader among the 
settlers. His wife died March 27, 1776, and 
he afterwards married a widow, Mrs. Deborah 
Miller. Joseph Newcomb'' was born in Leb- 
anon, now Columbia, Conn., July 5, 175 1, 
and when nine years old came with his parents 
to Cornwallis, N.S., where, on April 6, 1774, 
he married Catherine, daughter of Caleb Rand. 
In that place they both passed their remaining 
years, his death occurring" April 17, 1832, and 
hers March 17, 1831. The following lines 
are taken from a testimonial to his worth : 
"He was of kindly disposition, affectionate in 
his nature, religiously disposed, moral in his 
habits, rigidly honest in his dealings — traits 
of the Newcomb family." 

Daniel Webster Newcomb, ' Mr. Newcomb's 
paternal grandfather, was born in Cornwallis, 
N.S., April 7, 1786, and died February 17, 
183 1. In his early life he was a seafaring 
man, but in after years a shipbuilder and 
owner. He married Nancy, daughter of David 



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Lyons, their union being solemnized April 8, 
1819. She was one of three sisters that mar- 
ried three brothers. She was born in Corn- 
wallis, and there died in early womanhood, 
March 16, 1S25. Iler widowed husband mar- 
ried for his second wife, Octt)ber 17, 1S27, 
Charity Grant. She was born at Weymouth, 
N. S. , October 7, 1807, a daughter of David 
Grant. 

Charlton Newcomb^ was born March i, 
1830, in Comwallis, N. S., and was there edu- 
cated. In early manhood he removed to Wey- 
mouth, where he learned the shipbuilder's 
trade, and subsequently became quite a large 
vessel owner and also an extensive farmer. 
He was prominent in social and business cir- 
cles, and was for many years a leading mem- 
ber of the Baptist church, which he served as 
Deacon, and was also superintendent of the 
Sunday-school. His death, on October 9, 
1897, was mourned by many friends. On De- 
cember 20, 1854, he married Rachel, who was 
born in Weymouth, August 24, 1831, daugh- 
ter of Enoch Grant. Five children were the 
fruit of this union, namely: Georgiana, born 
November 3, 1856, now the widow of the late 
Captain J. S. Brooks, and residing in Wey- 
mouth; Augusta, born August 24, 1859, who 
is the widow of the late Captain Gordon J. 
Ross, of Lynn, Mass. ; Emma F. , born July 
25, 1 86 1, now the widow of Freeman Nichol, 
late of Weymouth; Daniel Watson; and 
Charles Alfred, born September 2, 1868, who 
is a resident of Lynn, Mas.s. 

Daniel Watson Newcomb was educated in 
the common schools of Weymouth, and subse- 



quently was employed as clerk in a general 
store for a year. In 1881, after returning from 
a pleasure trip to England, he entered the em- 
ploy of the St. John and Maine Railway Com- 
pany as telegraph operator, a position which he 
resigned at the end of six months to become 
assistant station agent at St. Stephen, N.B. , 
a station on what was then the New Brunswick 
and Canada Railway, but is now a part of the 
Canadian Pacific .system. In November, 1883, 
he was transferred to the despatcher's office of 
the New Brunswick Railway at St. John, 
where he remained until the road was taken by 
the present management ; and he was appointed 
in March, 1897, to his present responsible 
position, with headquarters at Woodstock. 
Three hundred and seventy-five miles of this 
road are under his direct supervision, and, it is 
needless to say, are thoroughly cared for. 

Mr. Newcomb married Margaret, daughter 
of Alexander Caird, who emigrated from Scot- 
land to St. John, N. B., and they have one 
child. Marguerite. Fraternally, Mr. New- 
comb is a member of Union Lodge, K. of P., 
of St. John. He attends the Presbyterian 
church, of which Mrs. Newcomb is a member. 



fHOMAS HILYARD,* one of the most 
prominent shipbuilders of St. John in 
his day, was born in this city October 10, 
1810, son of Thomas, Sr. , and Margaret 
(Miles) Hilyard. His father, who jDrobably 
came from Devonshire, England, was a sea- 
captain, and sailed in the employ of the Bar- 
lows, who were at that time the leading mer- 



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chants of St. John. Thomas Hilyard, Sr. , 
died March 13, 1816. His wife, Margaret, 
whom he married in 1809, was a daughter of 
Thomas and Margaret Miles. Her mother was 
born in Cork, Ireland, and was first married to 
Captain Payne of the British army. This 
marriage so displeased Mrs. Payne's parents 
that they disowned her, and she accompanied 
her husband to America, where Captain Payne 
served with his regiment in the Revolutionary 
War until his death. By that union there 
were two children, a son and a daughter. The 
son was reared by his grandfather, and the 
daughter married a Mr. Doughty, of Deer 
Isle, Me. Mrs. Payne married for her second 
husband Thomas Miles, who belonged to the 
same regiment, and in 17S3 they settled in St. 
John. Five children were born to them; 
namely, John, Thomas, Benjamin, Margaret, 
and Nancy. John Miles became a sea-captain, 
and settled in Liverpool, England. He was 
married in St. John to Margaret Munn, and 
his only daughter married a Mr. Lewis, a 
clothier of Liverpool. Benjamin Miles, who 
is residing in Portland, married Sarah Dean, 
of Deer Isle, and has five children — Ben- 
j'amin, Margaret, Sally, Thomas, and William. 
Thomas Miles, Jr., married Charlotte Carlo, 
and had a family of seven children — Thomas, 
Mary, Margaret, I^lizabeth, Charlotte, Eliza, 
and John. Thomas, Sr., and Margaret (Miles) 
Hilyard were the parents of three children, 
namely: Thomas, the subject of this sketch; 
Richard, born October 24, 181 2, who died the 
same year; and Margaret, born February 14, 
1816, who married William Knigh, now de- 



ceased. The mother married for her second 
husband Dennis Sullivan. 

Thomas Hilyard served an apprenticeship 
at the ship-carpenter's trade, and followed it 
as a journeyman for some years prior to engag- 
ing in business for himself. He purchased a 
saw mill in 1853, and for nearly twenty years 
carried on an e.xtensive lumber manufacturing 
and ship-building business. He was identified 
with the last-named industry during its palmy 
days, and the following are some of the notable 
merchantmen constructed in his yards: the 
"Ocean Home," launched November 5, 1859, 
and sold in England; the "Eddystone," 
launched in i860; the "Attila," "Salam," 
and the "Kamea," in 1861 ; the "Cavour" in 
1862; the "Kanute," "Frederick," "Mass- 
kobre, " and "Empress of the Seas, " in 1863; 
the "Brunette" (fifteen hundred tons), the 
"Isabella" (a barcjue), and the "Sumrod" in 
1864; the "Timur" in 1865; the "March" 
and the "Florentine" in 1866; the barque 
"Matilda Hilyard" in 186S; the "Clara" in 
1871; the "Ahlunet," the "Albania," and 
the "Lightning" in 1872. He also con- 
structed at great expense a marine railway for 
repairing vessels. The substantial and thor- 
oughly workmanlike manner which character- 
ized his ships gained for him a high reputation 
in marine circles, and some of his earlier craft 
are still paying good returns to their owners. 
Thomas Hilyard died June 22, 1S72. He was 
at one time a Vestryman of the old Grace 
Church, but later served in the same capacity 
in St. Luke's Church. He was an earnest ad- 
vocate of temperance. 



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Mr. Hilyard married Matilda Dyer. They 
were the parents of thirteen children; namely, 
Loretta, Thomas K., Charles E., Margaret, 
Frances, Henry, P^rederick S. , Herman, 
Kdwin J., Emma, Arthur II., Herbert, and 
William. Loretta, Charles E., Margaret, and 
Herman are no longer living. Thomas K. 
Hilyard is in the lumber business in St. John. 
Margaret was the wife of A. N. Shaw. 
Frances is the wife of W. H. Smith. Fred- 
erick S. Hilyard is postmaster in Fredericton, 
N. B. Edwin J. Llilyard resides in Houlton, 
Me. Emma is the wife of G. S. Robertson, 
New York City. Arthur H., Herbert, and 
William are in business in New York. The 
mother died in January, 1S96, aged seventy- 
seven years. 

Henry Hilyard was born in 1848. His 
early education, obtained in St. John, was sup- 
plemented by a professional course at the Law 
School of Harvard University, where he re- 
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1870. 
He continued the study of law in the office of 
Messrs. Byard & Thompson, St. John, and 
after his admission as an attorney in 1871 he 
went to England. Upon his return in the fol- 
lowing year he became associated with his 
father, whose death occurred shortly afterward. 
In company with his brother, Thomas K., he 
succeeded to the business, and the Hilyard 
Brothers built the "Thomas Hilyard," the 
"Abard," the "Ecuador," the Antrawa," the 
"Anglo American," the "Anglo Indian," and 
the "Areold. " For the past twenty years 
they have given their attention to the repair- 
ing of vessels, the lumber manufacturing busi- 



ness, and to their property interests, which 
consist of timber lands, shipping, etc. 

In 1876 Henry Hilyard married Miss 
Theresa McDonald, daughter of Arthur Mc- 
Donald, a ship-builder of this city. They 
have one sen, George. 

Mr. Llilyard has been cjuite active in muni- 
cipal affairs, and was Mayor of the city for one 
year. He belongs to the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, and has occupied the prin- 
cipal chairs in the local lodge. He is a prom- 
inent churchman, and a Warden of St. Luke's 
Church. 




yCAv"/ M- STIRLING,* brass founder and 
finisher, of St. John, N. B. , was 
born in that city in 1864, son of James and 
Rebecca (Doak) Stirling. James Stirling was 
one of the most prominent contractors and 
builders in St. John, to which place he came 
from his native town of Galashiels, Scotland. 
Among some of the more important buildings, 
erected by him may be mentioned the govern- 
ment post-office building, St. Andrews Presby- 
terian church, the railway passenger station. 
Calvary Church, the Valley Church, Cushing's 
mill, and the Gushing residence on Queen's 
Street. His work was all done by contract 
from foundation to finish. His wife, Rebecca 
Doak Stirling, a native of Ireland, came to 
New Brunswick with her mother's family when 
a child. Her mother's brother, William Doak, 
established the first brass foundry in St. John, 
it having been located on Water Street, on the 
site of the present foundry of the subject of 
this sketch. Mrs. Stirling's father died in 



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Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Stirling were the 
parents of four children : Rosanna, wife of 
John Bauer, of St. John; Jessie May; James, 
a harness-maker of St. John ; and VV. H., whose 
name begins this sketch. The father, James 
Stirling, retired from business in 1888 and 
resides in St. John. He is a member of the 
St. Andrew's Society. His wife died in No- 
vember, 1898. 

W. H. Stirling learned his trade in the city 
of New York, and subsequently worked for 



fifteen years as a journeyman. In 1893 he es- 
tablished his present business, which is in 
a flourishing condition. He does all kinds of 
brass work, besides ship-iolumbing. One of 
the chief products of his factory is the "Niag- 
ara " injector, of which he is the inventor and 
patentee, and of which he manufactures a large 
quantity yearly, finding a ready market in all 
parts of the Dominion. With an excellent 
business reputation, he ranks as one of the 
leading manufacturers of St. John. 



INDEX. 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Allan, Harris .... 
Allen, John Campbell . 
Allen, Thomas Carleton 
Allison, James Frederick 
Ahvard, Silas .... 
Anderson, James . . . 
Anderson, Josiah J. . . 
Anderson, Thomas Rheese 
Appleby, Stephen Burpee 
Arnold, Oliver Roswell 
Arnold, R. Heber . . 
Atkinson, James Smith 
Austin, Henry A. . . 
Austin, M. Douglas . . 



292 

472 

331 

450 

47 

574 

556 

41S 

56 

89 

312 

4S3 

344 

337 



B. 

Baird, George F 480 

Barber, James 202 

Barker, Frederic E 59 

Barlow, Thomas 280 

Barnhill, William 1 28 

Barry, Thomas 182 

Bates, Edward 255 

Baxter, James McGregor . . . 102 

Bayard, William 37 

Bebbington, John, Sr 290 

Beer, Edwin Bond in 

Benson, Joseph Black .... 263 

Black, John 461 

Black, Joseph L 237 

Blair, Andrew George .... 320 



PAGE 

Blair, Thomas B 577 

Borden, Robert Allison . . . 585 

Bostwick, Charles Merritt . . 521 

Bowman, William Henry . . . 271 

Boyd, Robert James 45S 

Brewster, Gilbert 567 

Brown, James 275 

Burden, Oliver Earl 427 

Bustin, Stephen B 550 



C. 

Camp, Wellington 471 

Campbell, Peter 555 

Carritte, De Blaviere .... 561 

Carter, Charles L 508 

Chipman, Ward 530 

Christie, Alexander 247 

Clark, Charles A 558 

Clark, Joseph Sutton .... 578 

Clark, William 168 

Clarke, Clement Pcckham . . 66 

Climo, JoKn S 54S 

Clinch, D. Carlton 167 

Clinch, Peter 566 

Coffin, General 523 

Coll, James 275 

Coll, Michael 275 

Colpitts, Robert 143 

Cohvell, Frederic C 352 

Colwell, William 1S5 

Connell, Allison Barlow . . . 4S8 

Connell, Henry Augustus . . . 476 



PAGE 

Connolly, Thomas 227 

Connors, James F 233 

Coulthard, George E 496 

Crandall, Joseph 157 

Crothers, Samuel . . . . 308 

Currie, James Russell .... 256 

Gushing, Allston 157 

Gushing, Andre 156 

D. 

Daniel, John W 246 

Dawson, David C 538 

Dean, Thomas 517 

de Forest, George Sylvester . . 323 

de Forest, Harry Wenman . . 324 

Desmond, Francis J 152 

De Veber, William Hubbard . 53S 

Dever, Patrick 487 

Dibblee, William Fyler ... 480 

Dickinson, James Duncan . . 67 

Dickson, S. Z 200 

Dixon, James D 360 

Dodge, Alfred 574 

Doherty, William 573 

Dunbar, Alexander 449 

Dunn, Albert T 87 

Dunn, Elbridge Gerry .... 289 

Dunn, R. C. John 285 

E. 

Earle, Allen 577 

Emmerson, Henry Robert . . 14 



596 



INDEX 



F. 

Fairweatlier, Arthur C. . . . 55 

Fairweather, George Edwin . . 506 

Fenety, George Edward ... 25 

Ferguson, Daniel 3S6 

Ferguson, John C 549 

Finley, Joseph ....... 253 

Fish, Charles E 254 

Fisher, Charles 146 

Fleming, James 402 

Flewelling, Frank H 234 

Flood, John 325 

Forster, John Baker 20S 

Fowler, Josiah 138 

Fowler, Weeden 561 

Fowler, WiUiam U 559 

Fraser, Donald 461 

Fraser, John James 30 



Gallagher, Hugh 


466 


Gallagher, Michael .... 


326 


Gaynor, James 


2S1 


Gaynor, William Cleophas . 


363 


George, Charles W. ... 


137 


George, William F 


276 


Gibson, Alexander .... 


586 


Gilbert, George Godfrey . . 


345 


Gilbert, James S 


237 


Gilbert, Thomas 


88 


Gilchrist, John 


2S6 


Godsoe, Frank Amos . . . 


207 


Gooden, Edward C 


3S2 


Goodwin, Arthur Leslie . . 


368 


Gordon, John James . . . 


158 


Grieves, John Brooke . . . 


517 



H. 



Hale, Frederick H 


513 


Hall, Stephen S 


305 


Hamilton, James F 


404 


Hamm, Joseph B 


261 


Hamm, Matthias 


98 


Hannay, James 


423 


Hanson, Uriah Rubert . . . 


422 


Harding, Charles Edward 


1 12 


Harding, John Henry . . . 


301 



Harrison, Jeremiah 332 

Harrison, William Frederick . 559 

Harrison, William Gray . . . 199 

Harrison, William Henry . . . 293 

Hartley, J. Chipman .... 201 

Hatfield, Samuel Fairiveather . 296 

Hay, George Upham .... 443 

Hay, William Wallace .... 371 

Hayward, Harvey P 146 

Hayward, Samuel 518 

Hayward, William H 145 

Hetherington, George A. . . . 529 

Hevnor, Gideon 584 

Hickman, William i8r 

Hilyard, Thomas 591 

Hocken, Richard 569 

Holly, James 71 

Holstead, Alfred E 194 

Humphrey, William F. . . . . 74 



I. 

Inches, Andrew Small .... 99 
Inches, Julius LeGendre . . . 419 
Inches, Peter Robertson .... 33 



J- 

Jack, David William 428 

Jack, Edward 532 

Jack, Isaac Allen 9 

Jack, William Brydone ... 117 

Jarvis, Charles Edward Leonard, 563 

Jarvis, William Munson ... 27 

Johnson, John Mercer .... 571 

Jones, Andrew H 125 

Jones, Edward Charles .... 67 

Jones, Frederic A 462 

Jones, George West 299 

Jones, Oliver 126 

Jones, Thomas R 42 

Jones, Wilfred T 507 

Jordan, Daniel 396 



K. 

Kaye, James Joseph 511 

Keast, John W 272 

Kennedy, Edward J 187 



PAGE 

Kennedy, James 173 

Kenne)', Frank Lincoln . . . 339 

Kerr, Robert 581 

Kerr, Samuel 378 

Ketchum, Ezekiel Barlow ... 80 

Ketchum, George William . . 358 

Ketchum, Richard Benjamin . 248 

Killam, Amasa Emerson ... 34 

Kingdon, HoUingworth Tully . 10 

Kinnear, Charles F 542 

Knapp, Charles E 1S8 

Knight, Leonard B. ..... . 84 

Knowles, Edward T. C. . . .121 

Knox, James 295 



L. 

Le Lacheur, John . . ." . . 212 

Leonard, Walter F 267 

Lindsay, John A 349 

Lockhart, William Albert . . 374 

Lordly, Albert J 576 

Lordly, Sterling B 573 

Lovett, Arthur Wellesley ... 381 



M. 

Mabee, Alfred A 354 

Macdonald, Charles Abner . . 195 

Mackenzie, William Brouard . 206 

MacLean, Arthur B 136 

Maher, Joseph D 17O 

Maltby, Richard L 44S 

Maltby, Thomas 447 

Markham, Alfred 167 

Marshall, Robert 13S 

Marven, Bliss A 163 

Maunsell, George J 564 

Maxwell, Henry 169 

Maxwell, Robert 2^9 

McAlar\', Joseph W 557 

McAlpine, Edwin II 151 

McAvenney, Andrew Francis . 268 

McAvity Family, The .... 3''^7 

McCormick, Daniel W. ... 534 

McDonald, James G 466 

McDonald, Montesquieu . . . 107 

McFarlane, Peter 44^ 

McGaffigan, James J 3S0 

Mclnerney, James Peterson . . 444 



INDEX 



597 



McKean, George . . 
McKeown, H.-irrison A 
McKeown, Hezekiali 
McLaughlin, John 1", 
McLellan, David . , 
McLeod, Ezekicl . . 
McLeod, John . . . 
MclMillan, John . . 
McRoberts, David . 
Mc Sweeney, George 
JMcSweenev, Peter . 
Menzies, John ... 
Merritt, Gabriel . . 
Miller, Charles . . 
Miller, Edward Win.slo 
Miller, Henry Usher 
Mitchell, Peter . . 
Moore, Frederick 
Morgan, Patrick . . 
Morrison, William Som 
MuUin, Daniel . . 
Murdoch, Robert A. 
Murdock, Edward S. 
Murdock, William . 
Murray, Suther Corbet 
Murray, Robert . . 
Myers, William Frederi 



:k 



56S 
250 

253 
133 

IDS 

S6S 
106 
352 
317 
1 76 

175 
407 
191 

544 
33S 
220 
242 
377 
314 
560 
170 
21s 

505 

180 

465 

60 

212 



N. 

Nase, David H 224 

Nase, Harry Brunswick . 318 

Nase, Philip 12 

Neill, James Stewart .... 196 

Newcomb, Daniel Watson . . 5S9 

Nicholson, Robert 499 

Niven, John 403 

Northrup Family, The .... 545 



O. 

O'Brien, John 392 

O'Connell, David 239 

Odell, Charles 420 

Ogden, Amos 300 

O'Neil, Daniel 351 

O'Neil, John 351 

Otty, George O. Dickson . . . 400 

Otty, Henry Phipps 186 



Palmer, Acalus Lockwood . . tS 

Palmer, Charles Arthur ... 20 

Paterson, Robert Bissell . . . 149 

Pearson, George Nelson . . . 120 

Peck, Charles A 570 

Peck, John Lewis 135 

Peters, Charles H 262 

Peters, George C 31S 

Peters, Hurd 61 

Peters, William 311 

Powell, Henry A 490 

Prescott, George D 484 

Prescott, Gideon Knight ... 131 

Prescott, Isaac Clayton . . . 479 

Preston, Henry Canfield . . . 364 

Prince, John 76 

Pugsley, William 537 

Pullen, James H 3S5 

Purdy, John Dean 144 



Ouinton, William A 216 



R. 

Randall, Edward Clark 
Randolph, Archiljald F"itz 
Rankin, William Donald 
Rankine, Thomas . . 
Raymond, William E. . 
Reynolds, James . . . 
Reynolds, William Kilby 
Reynolds, William Kilby, 
Richey, James . . . 
Ried, Frederick P. . . 
Ritchie, Robert J. . . 
Robertson Company, The 
Robertson, George . . 
Robertson, James C. 
Robinson, Alexander . 
Robinson, Clifford W. . 
Robinson, James . . 
Robinson, Thomas Willia 
Rowan, Joseph . . . 
Ruddock, Joseph M. . 
Ruel, James Rhodes 
Russell, James Venner 
Ryan, Michael . . . 



2d 



72 
2S2 

391 
152 
S( 
468 
408 
4u 

457 
421 

343 
357 
162 

563 
ISO 

94 

526 

543 
427 
313 
45 
492 
302 



Sandall, Fred 

Sangster, George Robert . 
Saunders, William Sheppard 
Scammell, Joseph Henry . 
Segee, Charles William . 
Shaw, Arthur N. . . 
Shaw, William . . 
Skinner, Charles N. 
Smith, Charles Lewis 
Smith, George F. 
Smith, G. Sidney 
Smith, John Blackhall 
Smith; John Wilson Young 
Spurr, James De Wolfe . 

Steeves, John I 

Stirling, W. H 

Stockton, Alfred Augustus 
Sturdee, Henry Lawrance 



17 
29 
205 
340 
240 
loi 

97 
326 
loS 

20 
194 
330 
582 

40 
593 
335 

93 



T. 

Tapley, Daniel F 125 

Tapley, David 118 

Tapley Family, The 399 

Taylor, Charles Sloggett . . . 263 

Taylor, John M 245 

Tennant, James 164 

Thomson, John H 74 

Thomson, Robert 74 

Thomson, Samuel 65 

Thomson, William 73 

Trites, Edward T 5S8 

Trueman, Arthur 1 527 

Tuck, William Henry .... 23 

Tweedie, Lemuel J 500 



Van Wart, Gilbert William . . 114 

Vroom, William Ezra .... 54 

W. 

Walker, James 450 

Walker, John 495 

Walker, Thomas 503 

Ward, John 546 

Wark, David 306 

Warwick, Orlando H 174 

Watson, Alexander A 581 



598 



INDEX 



Watson, J. Frederick 
Watt, George . . . 
Wells, William Woodbury 
White, Thomas . 
White, Thomas F. 
Whitne_v, Henr)' A. 
Wilbur, John . . 
Wilkinson, William 
Williams, Rainsford W. 



584 
319 
49 
372 
373 
492 
264 
257 
575 



Willis, Edward 552 

Williston, Edward 82 

Williston, Edward P 83 

Wilson, John E 268 

Wilson, Le Baron 300 

Wilson, William 83 

Winslow, Edward Byron . . . 359 

Winslow, J. Norman W. . - 100 

Wood, Josiah 53 



Wood, R. Dixon 48 

Woodman, Charles F 62 

Wright, Willard 392 

Wyse, Henry 223 

Wyse, William 579 

Y. 

Yerxa, Abraham D. . . . . . 90 



PORTRAITS. 



PAGE 

Allen, William K 473 

Anderson, Thomas R 414 

Baird, George F 481 

Barber, James 203 

Barker, Frederic E 58 

Barnhill, William 129 

Barry, Thomas 183 

Baxter, James i\'IcGregor . . . 103 

Bayard, William 36 

Black, Joseph L 236 

Bostwick, Charles M 520 

Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J., 

and grandson 459 

Carter, Charles L 509 

Connolly, Thomas 226 

Coulthard, George E 497 

Dawson, David C 539 

de Forest, S. S 322 

Dever, Patrick 486 

Dixon, James D 361 

Dunn, Albert T 86 

Dunn, Elbridge Gerry .... 288 

Dunn, R. C. John 284 

Emmerson, Henry Robert . . 15 

Fisher, Charles 147 

Forster, John Baker 209 

Fraser, John James ..... 31 

George, William F 277 

Gordon, John James .... 159 



Grieves, John B 516 

Hamilton, James F 405 

Hamm, Joseph B 260 

Harrison, Jeremiah 333 

Hay, William Wallace .... 370 

Hetherington, George A., facing 529 

Holly, James 70 

Inches, Julius L 418 

Jack, Isaac Allen 8 

Jack, William Brydone . ... 116 

Jones, Frederic A 463 

Jones, George West .... 298 

Lindsay, John A 348 

Mabee, Alfred A 355 

Maher, Joseph D 17S 

Marshall, Robert 139 

McCormick, Daniel W. . . . 535 

McKeown, Harrison A. . . . 251 

Mclnerney, James P 445 

McRoberts, David 316 

Merritt, G. Wetmore .... 190 

Miller, Henry Usher .... 221 

Moore, Frederick 376 

MuUin, Daniel 171 

Neill, James Stewart . . . . 197 

O'Brien, John 393 

Peck, John Lewis 134 

Peters, William 310 

Preston, Edward A 365 



Prince, John 77 

Pullen, James H 3S4 

Ouinton, William A 217 

Rankine, Thomas A 153 

Reynolds, James 469 

Richey, Mr. and Mrs. James . 456 

Rowan, Alexander M 426 

Ruel, James Rhodes .... 44 

Russell, James Venner . . . 493 

Ryan, Michael 303 

Segee, Charles William . . . 341 

Skinner, Charles N 96 

Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Charles 

Lewis 327 

Smith, George F 109 

Tapley, Archibald C. L. . . . 398 

Tapley, Daniel F 124 

Taylor, John M 244 

Tennant, James 165 

Thomson, Samuel 64 

Tuck, William Henry .... 22 

Walker, James 451 

Walker, Thomas 502 

Wilbur, John 265 

Willis, E. Le Roi 553 

Wilson, John E 269 

Wood, Josiah 52 

Yerxa, Abraham D 91 



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